FIDE Chess Olympiad Round 5 | India vs Netherlands in Open, India vs Poland in Women

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Even when I let go in an empty mind, you always close Hello, hello, hello! Welcome everyone to the live stream of the 5th round of the Chess Olympiad 2026. This is your host Sagar Shah welcoming you from Samarkand in Uzbekistan. We are here at the venue live and joining me very soon will be my teammates Who will be here very, very soon. Today is a big, big day, and before we get into action as to who India is playing, who are our opponents, let's first break down who are leading in this tournament, the tournament's format, and everything that you want to know.

It's going to be an epic day.

Because today India is taking on the Netherlands. That means it's Anish Giri versus, uh, Pragnananda at the top board. Let's see, before we get doing stuff, let's see if players have already arrived or not. This is the view that we can see at the venue. It's completely right now empty. People have not yet begun to arrive. And we also have some other views where you can see it's 15 minutes to the start of the game. Game start at 3 PM here, that is 3:30 Indian time, but there's a 15-minute delay, which is why you will see that this actual footage There is 15 minutes still to the start of play, and that you can see here, everyone just gathering in. And this is the Indian board that we have in the open section. The women board will be here. It'll be exciting to see what happens on this board here, and also We have the main board, so everything is well set. Everything is going to begin soon, and we have Rakshit Bai who says thanks for the amazing broadcast, Sagar Bai. अरे थैंक यू रक्षित बाई फॉर ऑल योर हेल्प दैट यूव प्रोवाइडेड. Let's first go here and see which are the teams that are leading in the open section. We see China in number one position. Because they have 8 match points and also 13.5 is what they have scored in 16 games, I believe. Uzbekistan have 8 match points as well and Germany have 12.5, Armenia 12.5, India on number 7 position there, actually number 5 position. They are also on 8 points. Let's have a look at the, uh, women's section, what's happening there. And this is what is happening in the women's section, and you can see that USA is leading, but India is also one of the leaders here in the 7th position right now. Uh, India is there in the lead and there are 10 teams on full points. In the Open, there are 8 teams on full points. And joining me all the way from the playing hall is the one and only Amruta. Hello, Amruta!

No, I was not at the playing hall. Oh, just over here. You were here only, I think. Uh, yeah, you had, uh, some stakes on, you know, Harshit and you on the move and Uh, you had to give a smoothie to Harshit, so I just got, uh, the order.

Oh nice, so let's go! That's very cool, Amruta. And today we have some amazing games that we will be showcasing. So let me first show you which are the games that we are looking forward to in the open section. Amruta, do you know who we are playing today?

Um, yeah, of course I know it.

Well, it's actually Anish.

Yeah, Prag Anish.

Prag Anish and Anish is here already. Anish always comes before time and you can see him already seated here. क्या बात है अनिश? And let's have a look there on the big screen.

And you know, it's not Anish Anish, the one Anish with. It's like Anish with a score of hundred percent. Yes, so it's 100% Anish we have right now.

We have the Anish who is in great form right now, and you can see he's talking with the arbiter that I don't like the bishop.

He's— maybe he's asking, can I steal this bishop?

Oh, it's not the arbiter, it's his team captain. Jan Smits is here, he's the team captain of the Netherlands, and Anish has arrived 10 minutes before the game.

Wow.

Talk about punctuality.

I doubt he's gonna be sitting on the board, you know. I think he will roam around, he'll talk to people. It's a great reunion over here.

First he will write his score sheet and then he will get into action. You can see him writing his score sheet there. Uh, yeah, 100% Anish would have had 4 draws, so it's 200% Anish here as he gets ready. For action against Pragnananda. Let's have a look at which are the matchups we are going to look at today. So firstly, we have Anish versus Pragnananda. And Amruta, the big clash is between Jordan van Foreest and Arjun Erigaisi on board 2. This is going to be massive one.

And Vijay Kumar says Anish is like that. स्कूल बॉय जो स्कूल के रूल्स फॉलो करता है। Yes, very very.

He is actually always on time. Whenever I have done interviews with him and we have decided on a time, he is always there. कभी लेट नहीं होता। If he gets late, he actually tells कि अरे सागर I am late beforehand and so you know he values time immensely.

And I think he and Vidit very well know actually if they have to catch a flight, it's very dangerous to travel with you.

I think it's become more and more famous now, this legend of my delays, uh, or reaching late. And there we see someone. Oh, the Dutch team is already here, Amruta!

The full Dutch, right? Or no? Who is there with this?

No, it's like some other people have come, but you can see Erwin Lamy is on the last board. Then we have Uh, Luke Van Veli. And yeah, all of them are here.

Wow, something very exciting seems to be happening.

Yeah, so Vidit is not playing today, so just the other games that are there. Amruta, on board number 3, we have a definite edge as Nihal Sarin takes on Luke Van Veli. Now Luke Van Veli is a legend in chess. You know, he was playing in the Wijk aan Zee tournaments back in the '90s, so he is actually— or maybe 2000s— he's almost 20-25 years back a top player, and now today he's still in the team of Netherlands. That is amazing.

Yeah, how old he must be?

I think he must be in his 50s. I can confirm, uh, that maybe chat can help us to know. Yes, he was also the coach of Triveni Continental Kings. Absolutely right, from start, from the start. And then on the last board, we have the world champion. Again, a small edge to India as Gukesh takes on Erwin Lamy, but once again, a player with huge experience Erwin Lamy has been a world-class player for years and years.

I mean, Erwin in his top shape, uh, definitely is not somebody who can be beaten very easily with the black pieces especially. He has been second to Anish Giri for so many years and great opening players.

Wow. Yeah. Wow. And so this is what we have right now as we can see. Here, uh, Anish and the entire Dutch team are ready.

Yeah, and no Indian is there yet. I think they are just staying across this venue. Yep.

And going to the women's board, India takes on Poland today. This is going to be very interesting as well. So we have already the Polish team who has arrived, Amruta.

Okay, are we going to show them? They are not here yet too.

Yes, just to tell our viewers who are the players who are playing here, there is Koneeru Humpy versus— oh, and Vaishali is here, which means Prag will also be there.

Can we check?

No, no, Prag and Vaishali coming separately. Vaishali comes alone, Prag comes with mother. Mother today this time is with Prag.

Yeah, in candidate she was with Vaishali. Over here with Prague. That's a good sign. But it's Prague there. Just a moment.

We can see if Prague has arrived. And we see Gukesh coming in.

Just come right now, all of them.

The Indian team is here and the world champion Gukesh is here. Let's have some fire emoji in the chat as Gukesh is playing in good form here. He scored 3.5 out 4.

Yes, and not just 3.5, but some amazing masterpieces he scored. So it was super cool.

And there we see, let's go! Our chat has a lot of fire emojis. Amruta, let's go!

I love that, Sagar. What do you ask, guys? Like the stream. And so many countries here. I see Nigeria. I see this very, very cool dress. Um, one, one, one has been written on that. I don't know what it means, but I feel it's not a country because I've not—

and Prag is here! Let's go, Prag!

Anything like normally he is in a, you know, light mood, but over here he seems very serious.

He's very serious because he's playing for his country, and generally it's always more serious than individual tournaments because you want to perform well. And guys, For Prague, let's have the right now he's playing the best chess. So let's have the crown emoji. You know, we have the crown.

आज क्या हुआ है? आज तुम एकदम ऐसे emoji के लिए ऐसे क्या बोलते हैं दिल बह रहा है तुम्हारा। Yeah, just to just to set the tone.

You know that Prague is here.

So and you know Dutch team actually has never been in top. Ten. I love that, Sagar. The whole chat is going first with the fire, now with the crown, and we have a super chat. Nishant Sharma says, Harshit bhai, कहाँ हैं आजकल? कोई कोई से। अरे अरे। अभी he's gone to the tournament hall. He was so excited to you know see how it is, how the atmosphere is.

Guys, India versus Netherlands here. Everyone is pumped up and.

चैट मजेदार है यार कितने सारे ग्राउंड्स आ गए गणपति पापा मोरिया से कृष्णा yes two players who have not yet arrived अमृता are निहाल सरीन and अर्जुन एरिगाइसी they are yet to come in maybe they'll come together but yeah the point is Dutch team has never been in top ten in an Olympia oh okay that's a good point so They are very, very desperate to, you know, be on top, and this is a very huge opportunity for them. If they can beat India, that would be a big upset for sure.

It would be a huge upset. On top 2 boards, I think it's well-matched encounters with, uh, with Anish playing Prag and Jordan playing Arjun. But on the bottom two boards, India has an edge with Nihal facing Luke Van Veli with white and Gukesh playing with black against Erwin Lamy.

And Vasili says, "Vanuatu is a country actually in Oceania." Oh wow! Wow! And I was not even aware of this country. Vijay Kumar is saying, "Sagar bhai, आपको टीवी पे देख रहा हूँ." Oh wow!

That's amazing.

You know, earlier when we would say you are on TV, it meant that you are in some news or something like that because there was no other way to be on TV, right? Now because of the smart TVs, actually anyone can be on TV. Like for example, I start a YouTube channel, even if there is only one subscriber, I can put myself on TV.

True. And guys, we have Very amazing players here. Humpy versus Olivia Kiolbasa, and then we have Vaishali versus Maltshevskaya. We have Claudia Coulon versus Divya Deshbuk, Vandika Agrawal versus Monica Sochko, and the one and only Grandmaster Harshid.

Hello sir.

कैसे हो?

Hello black and white में ऐसा कर रंगी रंग भी रंगी kind of glowing with flowers.

Let's go. I'm actually very very pumped up, Harshit bhai. How was the atmosphere in the playing hall? Was it something like this?

You know, I was. I went inside. I saw so many teams. I saw so many familiar faces, and I was like, अगर यार कोई ऐसा country होता जिसमें मैं खेल पाता, it would have been.

So cool. अरे भाई, actually you would qualify for more than 150 countries out of 200. And look at that, we have the first move today.

Where is the player? The Hungarian player is not there yet.

Wow.

Richard Rapport on board number one and Peter Leko is also missing.

It's Hungary versus Uzbekistan on board one.

They are actually Hungary. Last year's Olympiad was in Hungary. And this one in Uzbekistan, right? We have Hungary.

Oh nice, that's a good one.

Actually, Peter Leko also played after a long time in the last Olympiad for his country, right? Yeah, he's not playing, and I'm very happy to see that, uh, he's playing again because last time it was, uh, it was in Hungary, so I thought he had to.

Yeah, and guys, this match, Amruta, you know, Peter Leko versus Tindarov will be so exciting to see. Because Peter Leko hasn't, uh, I mean, has been very close to becoming a world champion, but he has never become one. And now he's playing against someone who can potentially become the world champion. So we see a very cool matchup there on board 2.

And Harshit bhai, Amruta, we have 3,700 people already all pumped up. Can we ask them to like the stream as Nihal and Arjun have arrived? And I love How the coach of Indian team is giving a water bottle to everyone.

Yeah, you know, they— he's make— Srinath making sure that, you know, off the board the players have to don't worry about anything. And we do have the first move on Gukesh's board, which means the games have begun of round number 5.

And let's start with our top board clash, Anish versus Praggnanandhaa. What do you think will happen? क्या लग रहा है? Who will win?

Actually, I don't think Anish like Anish is beatable.

Oh, so I don't think Anish is beatable ही नहीं ऐसे ही बोल दिया भाई डायलॉग। I think you know. Okay, it's really hot no? हाँ मतलब सब मत। अरे सब नहीं निकल रहा हूँ भाई। Guys Prague has begun with E4 E5। ओपा। Okay. Whenever knight comes out to f3, knight c6. And what is Prag's response going to be, Amruta? Will he play? He plays the Ruy Lopez.

Wow! Okay, Anish Giri in his Ruy Lopez. With black would be very solid. In fact, he will have a lot of novelties, which one of them today will bring it out.

In round one of the candidates, Prag did beat Anish, remember? Yep, I remember, by playing the Groppri. So today Anish says no e4 c5, he plays e4 e5.

Yes, absolutely.

Bishop drops back. So India Open team takes on the Netherlands, India women's team take on Poland. Both are strong teams. Today India will have a tougher fight. Every day the going gets tougher. This is one of the top—

uh, Netherlands is the 5th seed in the tournament, which is amazing, which does mean that they can actually objectively— they can come 5th.

Yes, objectively they can create a definite upset here.

Sir, you had asked for a crown emoji, you had asked for fire emoji. And two more are left on this Indian team. Can you ask an emoji for इसके लिए crown बोला था मैंने?

अजूबाई के लिए तो और कोई emoji बनी नहीं सकता है। घोड़ा चले, tiger, अजूबाई tiger, tiger emoji। अजूबाई chat tiger हो जाए पूरे chat में मजा ही आ जाएगा। Guys we are not getting the moves on the Board for Anish and Prag. So I manually made the moves. That is why you cannot see the timer. We will update it. But for now, after Bishop A4, Knight F6, Prag has played the move D3. Is it?

Oh, Zagar, look at the chat. Everyone is putting tiger over there.

Oh, tiger emojis in the chat.

Let's see. Harshit.

हर्षित ने पूरा अमृता तू जो भी चाहिए ऑर्डर कर जो भी चाहिए लाइक फुल प्लेट कैसा है हाउ इज़ वेरी गुड गुड वेरी गुड अमृता हाँ गाइस अमृता इज़ मेकिंग सम अमेजिंग चॉइसेस हियर ऑन बिहाफ ऑफ मी एंड गाइस वी हैव अर्जुन एरिगाइसी वर्सेस यॉर्डन वैन फॉरेस्ट ऑन ये ये व Anish won't lose, which means that very likely a draw. And what about you? What was your feeling on Prag's board?

I also think it will be a draw.

What about you?

e6.

This is— I think, I think Prag— I don't know, somehow this feeling, you know, that yesterday I have Arjun willing, today I have Prag might win. I have this feeling he has been getting great positions. He had 2 winning positions, couldn't convert, but you know, uh, still a great performance by him so far. But I'm sure Prag is looking for that victory, you know, he's looking for that victory. This board is going to be critical because Jordan and Arjun, both very dynamic players, and Jordan kind of knows that for his team to do well, he needs to strike.

Yeah, actually everything for Dutch team is, uh, they have to bank on, uh, Anish and Jordan.

Exactly.

And one of the boards draw, that is their base, because they cannot rely on boards 3 and 4, as you rightly figured out, Amruta. They have to rely on the board where they have white and when they— where they have a very strong player, and that's Jordan, right? So I think this is a critical board for us.

Also, Jordan is known for his opening prep. He is very good at opening theory, new ideas. So I'm actually looking forward to what does he unleash against Arjun.

Yeah.

Should we go to the next board? Vamos. Lok Van Valley.

Ooh, Najdorf. We have a Sicilian Najdorf on the board.

Tiger, what is the emoji for Nihal Sarin?

Nihal Sarin के लिए I will ask Harshit bhai. We have been asking. We asked for fire for Gukesh, crown for Pragnananda, tiger for Arjun bhai. What should Nihal get? Snake.

Snake is like so, like you know, he slowly but surely makes sure that he captures his opponent.

Hiya, Nihal sir.

Cobra, you mean?

Cobra, yeah.

And if you are not, if you are not careful, he's going to bite you.

And hi, snake. किसी को मिलने रहा। Oh, let's go! Snake is there. Oh, rocket. Rocket. But I like snakes. For now, yes. Very nice.

By the way, for the first time I see Nihal entering a main line because he's always deviating. He's playing some sidelines. This time he accepts going into the Open Sicilian.

Black, how good is this move f4? Because Harshit Bhai, yeah, is a big Najdorf expert. So f4, is it a good move for white?

It's a very interesting try, and you know, generally the black players don't study this opening a lot. So I think that it's a very interesting way to, uh, to kind of, uh, pose problems. So let's say e5 now, which was played by Black, which is the main move. Knight comes back to f3. Black plays Knight d7, protecting the pawn on e5. And now Black wants to play the move pawn to b5 and bishop here. Exactly.

And then bring the bishop here and castle.

So White goes for the move pawn to a4. And this is a move to prevent Black from playing his move pawn to b5, as you can see on the board here. And generally a good move for Black is queen to c7. That's the move that I remember from, from my preparation.

That's a good move here. Yeah. And what is your feeling like? Is it something that, uh, Nihal has made a good choice here in the opening?

I think so. Because the nuances are quite difficult to remember for, for black. So white's idea in this position is to go bishop to d3, as, uh, uh, you are highlighting here. And then we want to go castle, let's say bishop e7, castle, castle. And white's move is very often queen to e1 here, and white wants to bring the queen via e1 to g3 or h4. And this is the way how white plays this position. Black needs to throw this move rook e8, uh, which is a very like, you know, innocuous looking move. But I think Amruta explained very well how rook coming into e8 allows black to place the bishop on f8, protecting the g7 pawn and indirect pressure over the e4 pawn. So this is a— this is one of the ways that the game can continue. But I like Nihal's approach here.

And Amruta, what are your feelings about this?

So I've been just trying to understand that, uh, you know, uh, there is a move f5 which white can commit, uh, but it is always a risk to allow d5. Like, it gives a clear opportunity of playing for black, so that's why it has to be done at the right time, if at all. Uh, the other thing I was trying to see about the bishop on c8, Harshit bhai. Yeah, like, you're gonna take the knight to— knight from d7 to c5.

Exactly, and the bishop very often comes into G four. So that's the way black wants to develop the bishop. By the way, Sagar bhai, would you like to have a kiss miss?

Ha, so what?

Kiss miss, bhai.

Yes, bhai.

Hello, bhai.

हमको दा five is fruits. It's very good. Dry fruit. Actually, the dry fruits यहाँ पे जो Uzbekistan Like they have organized and in the media room they have kept. It is so good. Like they have apricots, raisins, akrod, almonds, walnuts. It's amazing.

Okay, so the people are saying instead of this have neuro gum instead of dry fruits.

Instead of dry fruits. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Of course I'll have and also the apple plus carrot juice. कैसा लगा?

Very good. Great choice. Very healthy.

It's good.

Very healthy.

Got it.

Okay, time to go to the world champions.

Let's go. He is playing with the black pieces here, and he goes for his favorite opening. This is Gukesh's go-to line, which is the Rossolimo Variation. He has played this since he was very young, and I remember this because when I was playing with him, this was the only line that he used to play, and you beat him in this.

With white.

Yeah, but he was much younger back then. He was much younger and not so strong back then.

But you were still low— higher— lower rated than him.

Yeah, I was 2450 and he was 2560 or 2570.

Well, let's see if today Gukesh can play his best chess.

By the way, you know, yesterday I, I would show you a variation which was— came from the same variation, and here black played the move pawn Uh, here white took bishop takes c6, d takes c6, d3, e5, a3 was played by white, a5, white played bishop e3, queen e7. And guys, can you find what white should play in this position? 2 questions. It is going to be a question which, which will have a follow-up question. So white to play, and what's the move?

Time to play for gambits. When Harshit bhai asks question, you have to gambit stuff. Everyone's saying Knight bd2 with the idea of Knight c4, right?

That is a very typical way to play.

Pawn to b4, guys. ab4, Bishop takes c5. That is the trap. बम्बा, बम्बा गाइस, did you see it?

Did you see it? JKY6SY found it.

Well done, because this is a very cool trap that happened yesterday in one of the games yesterday in Tatev Abrahamyan in the US women's team played this and played bishop takes c5 and won her game.

Wow, that is insane, bye. Thank you for showing us this amazing trick. B4, take.

That's so unusual, very unusual, because the rook on a8 is unprotected. This is a very cool idea. If c takes b4, I showed it, queen c5, ab4. And the problem is that your rook on a8 and the queen on c5 is simultaneously under attack. And, uh, by the way, if c takes b4, just to conclude this and then we'll go back to the game, we take, a takes b4. And after Queen takes b4, just notice how underdeveloped Black's king is and pieces are. So we can just go Knight a3, Knight c4 now, and we have this hole on b6. The queen on b4 will come under fire. White has a huge edge.

Nice. Okay, this did not happen because he did not take here. Gukesh played e5, which is the typical move, right? Bishop takes c6 and d takes. It's happening almost. Yeah, a4 played, and I believe that this is the live board position.

Yes. Yeah, so generally, uh, I think that white should be happy. Uh, I mean, both players should be quite happy. I think black is also quite happy because Mukesh has a lot of experience and he has won with the black pieces numerous times in this line. And generally, the idea for black is to go knight to e7. Queen to c7, even with arrows, is good. And at some point you go castle, and you can even consider something like f6, f6, g5, Knight g6, and trying to kind of like get something going on the queen, uh, kingside.

But you are okay with the dark square bishop being bad?

Yeah, we, we actually have to accept that. We have to make the bishop a bit passive for the time being. And use our light-squared bishop to control some important squares.

We have to accept some of the shortcomings.

Exactly, the dark-squared bishop.

Yeah.

So a4 played by by Yami, and Gokesh is trying to think whether he wants to place his knight on e6 because there is a way where we can go knight h6 as well. Knight h6 followed by f6 and knight f7, knight d8, knight e6. I know you know this plan, Sagar bhai. Because Magnus has played it. Oh, oh, it happened!

Crazy! Wow!

Bim bim boom boom.

Yeah. Harshit bhai ka opening prep is crazy. And somebody said in the chat Harshit has beaten many upcoming like.

भाई हमने बचपन में ही आ रहा थे तो सब। अरे क्योंकि बचपन में I was very maybe बच maybe young था बचपन में। I was just two three years elder to them.

No, guys.

You are 2001 born and Gukesh 2005. Six, five years.

But there are other very strong. Let's say Arjun is 2003.

Three, four.

Many times.

No, Arjun.

You and Arjun are.

Arjun is almost like same age as me.

Yeah. Two years. Yeah. By Harshit bhai has to agree that he has become a little bit older than the youngsters.

But Harshit bhai, this is a very interesting position and this F6 Knight F7 Knight D8 idea. Is going to be quite relevant. You know, Magnus once showed this against Gu Zhangji, if I'm not mistaken, and that's when I got to know about this plan.

By the way, Nirav is saying Mukesh, 15-year-old Mukesh beat exactly same line in Chennai Olympiad.

Yep.

2020.

Yeah. I'm not sure if Knight f6 was played back then, but yeah.

At that point, but it was Rosolimo that was that happened. I want to look at Prague and then go to the women's section.

I'm Ankh now. No, भाई.

Ankh मत बना दो। Problem is that Prag's game has not been updated on Lichess somehow. Something is going wrong. So let's first go full screen.

Okay.

Oh, we can. I guess we can just make the moves on the board. We can, but every time we make e four, e five, knight f three, knight c six.

I mean, at some point the moves should come.

भाई मेबी वी शुड फर्स्ट गो ऑन द स्क्रीन तू लुक एट व्हाट हैपन एंड देन मेक इट ऑन द बोर्ड राइट?

नो आई नो दिस मूव्स. डी थ्री हैपन.

बिशेप सी फाइव हैपन.

मेबी बी फाइव, बिशेप बी थ्री, बिशेप सी फाइव.

कासल.

डी.

नो कासल इज़ नॉट हैपन. ओके सो सी थ्री.

सी थ्री भी नहीं है भाई.

ह c3, castle, Knight bd2.

Is the bishop on e3 or d—

Knight bd2. And the last move of black was Bishop b6. This is the live position, guys.

Anish and Jordan both were not there on the board.

And this opening which Prag has chosen is a very classical line. It's the Ruy Lopez. And in a way, he's telling Anish that I'm going to try and challenge you in something that you are already a big expert of, which is quite interesting because Pragg could go into some tactical ideas, but he knows that Anish is so well prepared everywhere that his best chance is to not take him on in the opening but rather get a playable position and then try in the middle game.

Yeah, exactly. And you know, I've always found Anish to be one player who knows where to put the pieces. His intuition and his ability to fix the board, and his ability to understand where the pieces belong is exceptional, Amruta. So I'm very curious how Prague will Prague will navigate this. We'll wait for this board to get updated, but let's quickly go to the women's section, Amruta, and try to look at the opening moves on. On in this section, starting with board four. Vantika playing with the black pieces.

Yeah, we should wait. We can start with.

It's okay. It's okay. We can go four three two one.

Four actually, Vantika yesterday who had rested today she is back with the black pieces. Knight f three d five. Knight c six.

Yeah, she goes for this semi-slav opening. And after Queen c2, she plays this waiting move, pawn to h6.

Yeah, why h6?

I think she's just waiting White to make a decision, because if White plays Bishop d3, then she will take on c4 and she has an extra tempi in, uh, the main line.

Yeah, because that's all always the weakness. If I have to check out, uh, the Leech's opening book Then h6 is not a top move. Bishop d6 and b6 and bishop e7, these are.

But actually the engine, I remember this, Amrutak, that the engine recommended a6 and h6 in in this in this position as a very very playable move. Just trying to wait and ask what do you want to do with white? Because if you commit b3, she went bishop d3, which is. A good thing for, uh, for Vantika, I guess, because now when she takes on c4, she's going to get a tempo.

Yeah, exactly. So she goes Bishop d3, and I think Vantika definitely is going to be taking over here. Bishop takes c4. Yeah, this is something we are going to look at, and b5 is going to happen because, you know, these are the lines in Slav where b5 comes, b4 comes at the right time, c5 break happens. But it has to be at the right timing, otherwise you have these weaknesses.

Exactly. I think you are. I think Amruta should be happy because Amandika simply has one extra move, right?

Yeah.

Pawn to h6, and white doesn't have the idea of going knight g5, knight e4 in many variations.

Absolutely. So I like her preparation.

I think, and you know, it's so tricky by Amandika. I'm sure she knew this move, but look at this. Before making this move, she thought for. Ah no, she played h6 immediately. Okay.

9 minutes for Knight bd7 and then h6 immediately. Immediately she was guessing. Okay, so Vantika, I think opening-wise she might land up in a situation of out-preparing her opponent. Yeah, let's go to Divya.

Let's go. Oh wow, wow, look at Divya's pawn there! Let's understand how that position has, uh, occurred on the board. c4, c6, this is the Neo-Grunfeld. Queen a4, Knight d7 takes, Knight b6, Queen b3, Queen takes, Queen back to d1. And look at her clock, Divya. She, she knew all of this. She blitzed out a4 here.

But even Claudia knows everything.

But she's thinking now. Look, she took on d4, a5 blitzed out. She, she played Knight c4 immediately, a6, and this This has suddenly, uh, made Kulon go into a thinking mode right now because Divya seems to have excellent preparation, and I like, I like how she's playing.

I mean, I, I think she also had one more day when Divya had great preparation. You see, uh, she has been the winner of the World Cup Women's, uh, in 2025. Um, of course, Candidates did not go very well for her. But we know that Divya has been very much on the top.

Yeah, after, you know, winning the World Cup, she has made her, uh, her entry into the top women's players. By the way, a6, the idea is if you take, just quickly show, knight can just move from f3 to d2, f to d2, let's say, and the bishop, the rocket bishop Uh, has an eye on the queen and the rook, winning a rook almost.

So you can't take here, so that's why you can't move the pawn as well. So that is out of question. And what is the best move? You want to move the queen away from the disco then, but it's quite clear the best move according to the machine is Queen h5. Yeah, because if you go here, this happens in a tempo. Queen h5, but what about Knight takes e4 as Knight g4?

Yeah, yeah. Wow, it's a crazy sequence of move here. Knight g four is fine, but I think like in this position, black needs to know the computer move bishop to h three here. But I don't think this makes this makes a lot of sense. And just rook b eight now apparently.

Yeah, no.

I don't know how this is.

This won't happen, Amruta, especially because.

Even if you take and then you will finally go knight g4, I don't know if it is ever coming. Never. Yeah, never a threat.

It's very hard. It's very hard. So in the current position, the move a6 by Divya is a great practical try because if your opponent doesn't know it, and you can see the time, she had 1 hour 32 minutes here full on, and after a6 She's down. Oh, she played Queen c5.

So she has some idea because Queen c5 is also an important move after Queen h5.

Uh-huh, Queen to c5 is a decent move.

You have to continue with Knight d4 because here you are threatening a takes b7 directly, but you have to be careful about this also in some way.

So I think Divya's approach was to play this line to ask Black if she knows the exact opening, and if she doesn't, she might need to play an equal position with her. So it's an interesting, uh, try from White. And generally in chess, Amruta, what is happening these days is if Black knows all the right moves in the opening, you cannot get an advantage.

That's a bit sad, no? But you can still outplay.

Exactly.

Then matters a lot endgame skills.

Actually, yeah. So for example, Divya can consider Queen takes d4 here as well. And if I was Divya's coach, I might recommend something like Queen takes d4 because I know Polon is a very aggressive player.

So Queen takes d4, Queen takes d4, Knight takes d4, something like Rook b8, and there will be mass exchanges.

She has a teeny tiny bit of an advantage here, Divya, and we will see if Uh, she continues to blitz out her moves or not. Uh, this endgame, uh, although equal, Divya will have some chances. So Queen c5 is the live position on the board, guys, and Divya is choosing whether to take on d4 with the queen or the knight. But a good start for Divya as well. Let's go to Vaishali's board as she is playing with the black pieces. And wow, what a crazy position we have on her board!

Of course, with Vaishali, it's always expected that something like this will happen.

Bishop f4, bishop f5, e3, e6. Black goes bishop d6, allows for a symmetrical— and you know, Amruta, generally we don't want to get doubled pawns, but in this position, the pawn on f5 controls the very important e4 square and also gives Black a semi-open e-line. And I think this is what Vaishali had in her mind. Bishop came to g5, h6, Bishop h4, g5, Bishop to g3, Knight to e4, Knight c3, Knight c6. I like Vaishali's position already, guys. I think Vaishali might be slightly better already because she can, uh, just go Knight e7 Uh, next potentially consider Queen d7, long castle.

I think position— no, this one is doing well. Also she has more space. Like this is a— like you would like— like as Vaishali had also mentioned, she wants to get the opening lines where she feels very, very comfortable and she loves to play in those kind of positions. And many times it is not very easy to get such opening Yeah, so this one is already a success in terms of you know what type of a position you like and what is your character.

I agree. I agree with you, Amruta. I think Vaishali. I think out of everyone, Vaishali has the best position right now with the black pieces, and Poland is a very strong team. Very strong team.

Do you know Alexandria Marzip?

Yeah, she used to formerly play for Russia. Has now changed her federations, playing for Poland. A very strong young junior, but I think Vaishali is looking good. Let's go down.

But you know, there is a— on Alexandra, there is actually a full book by our coach, which is a very good one. It is called The Mental Game. Oh wow, The Mental Game. So, uh, yeah, that's a good one. Let's go to Poneru Hampi.

Yeah, she is playing with the white pieces against Olivia, and, uh, she is the partner of Lorenzo Lodici.

So, you know, uh, all partners—

yeah, no, I think they are actually together for quite some time. Very, uh, very, uh, cute, uh, people, Kyolbasa and, uh, and Lorenzo. So she goes for this rare move, Knight to d7.

Yeah, what is knight d7?

So you basically are trying to put your knight to b6 and argue that, uh, you know, generally if you think about it, uh, in this position when black plays knight c6, let's say g3 knight c6 after d4, where exactly is this knight going?

Well, why will I go knight?

Exactly. And I think that's why Kiolba is like, I want to move my knight and not to c6. So she goes for this interesting idea of knight to b6. And very often what black wants in some cases is queen d7 and trip long castle.

Oh, that's a quick development and she wants to attack. Maybe she's an aggressive player.

But after bishop g2, she goes e6, and I generally am a big fan of this position with white. And the reason is that we can quickly go castles, rook e1, and go pawn to e4.

This is a good plan, but you know, this is so slow because Hampi is having 1 hour 18 minutes and ओलिवी आल्सो वन आफ नाइंटी मिनट्स ओनली फाइव मूव्स आर मेड। या फाइव मूव्स हैव हैप्पेन। बहुत ही ग्रो चल रहा है। बट इट्स गुड साइन राइट?

बिकॉज़ जनरली इफ़ आई एम अ स्ट्रॉंगर प्लेयर, आई वांट टू प्ले अ पोजीशन विथ बोथ ऑफ़ अस डोंट नो। वेल ऑफ़ कोर्स, प्रेफरेबली अ पोजीशन So I think Hampi's position is looking all the openings in the women's section are looking really, really good, Amruta. For the Indian players, it's a good sign. So I think we should be quite happy for the women's section. Do you want to go back to the open section?

Yeah, let's go to. I think like in Pratka game का थोड़ा problem चल रहा था. Okay, not yet.

We'll get their cameras as well. Uh, maybe we can look at the boards which we have access to. We have access to Arjun's board and a lot of moves have happened on the board.

Can we check?

Yeah, because we left it here after Knight takes d4. Arjun played Bishop c5 immediately, Knight to b3, Bishop to b6. C4 by Jordan, sacrificing a pawn.

Jordan's opening preparation is so good, generally so famous, so it's very hard, you know, like, for Arjun to out-prepare him, I believe.

But Arjun did play Knight g7 very quickly.

Let's see, did that surprise Jordan?

And after c takes d5, e takes d5, Arjun was still blitzing out the moves. Knight to c3. Castles. Now Arjun is the one sacrificing upon baiting white to taking it. Jordan says no, goes bishop to g5. d4 played by Arjun. Knight to a4, rook to e8, rook to e1. And this is the live position on the board. This reminds me of Dubov-Tarrasch in some ways.

Yeah, that's a good one. You should show the moves actually from the beginning.

So Dubov-Tarrasch happens, uh, like d5 d4, Knight f6, c4, e6, uh, g3, c5, cd5, ed5, uh, Bishop g2, Knight c6, just to bring you to that, uh, position which I was trying to show you. Here, Knight c3, castles, uh, Bishop g5, or for example, in some cases, d4. No, no, d4. Knight a4, castles, bishop g5, and this is the exact same position, but the difference is that the black knight is on e7. And this is the very small difference, guys, uh, that black has the knight on—

small difference but with a big impact.

Yeah, because for example, white— black has the extra option of playing the move pawn to f6, but black's e-file is closed. So this is the difference that we see between the knight being on f6 and on e7.

Actually, Taras, I found like I had prepared it, but I found it very tough to play practically. Like isolated pawn, that weakness, somehow it became tough. Yeah. Somehow Pano Botvinik with like against Caro-Kann with the white pieces was easier to play because you play with initiative and here black needs to be accurate actually.

Arjun has to play slightly accurately because white is putting pressure. White wants to potentially capture the bishop here.

Did he not take here? Like, over here you are getting a nice bishop which is defending this, and you are also doubling the pawn over here. So why did he not take on b6?

I think it's, it's because of, you know, the fact that black can't really move— afford to move the bishop right now. It was just way too time-consuming, and a recurring threat of knight takes b6 often is more dangerous than just capturing directly.

No, but you are saying that after rook e1, I don't have time to go bishop c7.

Exactly.

Why?

Because now let's say bishop takes c6, you cannot take with the knight.

Simply going to capture the d4.

Exactly. And you lose control of the d4 square, and that's why Jordan makes a developing move, rook to e1. Under slight pressure is Arjun. I have to say, guys, Arjun is under slight pressure. I think a draw on Arjun's board would be a great result with the black pieces against Jordan. I think a draw would be a good result.

I mean, I would say that draw on top two boards and like one win on third or fourth board and one draw.

Yeah.

Two and a half Dutch team के साथ हो भी already very good. Because it is not so easy.

So I think now, guys, Arjun perhaps needs to come up with a move like pawn to h6 so that he gets rid of this pin, uh, on the knight on e7. h6 is the best move he is thinking. Let's go to Nihal's board because Nihal seems to have a slight edge from f4 where we left off.

यहाँ पे नो बिशप सी फोर वाज प्लेड हियर, या विद द पॉन विद नॉट बीइंग ऑन ई सिक्स यू आर हैप्पी विद द बिशप ऑन दिस डायगोनल। शॉर्ट कैसल ईएफ फोर बिशप एफ फोर क्वीन बी सिक्स। एक बार वंस दिस हैज बीन एक्सचेंज, देन इट इज़ वेरी क्लियर। लाइक फॉर व्हाइट देर इज़ अ टारग you know, very well guarded. White is not allowing Knight e5 ideas. And, uh, Queen d4 played, Rook e8, because if the queens would get traded, the knight wants to jump to f5. And if knight would go to c5, um, normally endgames are comfortable for Black with some exchanges, but this one doesn't seem like that.

Yeah, because the Black is not, uh, well developed. Yet. And, uh, generally if black has the rook on c8, black is quite happy. But for getting the rook on c8, you have to move the bishop on c8, and I think this is gonna take black quite a few moves. That's why Van Wely first plays rook to e8. And generally you don't want to capture your opponent's piece and allow him to develop. You want your opponent to capture your piece— that's what Van Wely is saying— and allow him to— and allow us to develop our own piece. So with white, I wouldn't expect him to take, and he plays the move bishop to e three here. Nihal.

Oh, can I also later tell you after we see this?

वो तू जाओ किरण। Yeah.

That's what people are saying.

What is happening?

क्या हो रहा है?

कुछ brilliance ही आई है। Oh my God!

Peter like okay sir, can we take it from the first move? Wait wait.

Let's go. C four, C five. And it was the English Opening played by Jawahir. g6, Queen b3, e6. And you know, I was always curious whether Jawahir is going to save his preparation for the World Championship match, but maybe not.

Maybe he has a lot of preparation, you know, novelties. He's not worried.

Look at this piece sacrifice.

If you take, Bishop takes d4.

Rook ad1.

Wow!

And if I go back to g7, and let's ask the chat, guys. White to play over here. What should Sindarov play?

ये पोजीशन आया नहीं। Guys, Javokir Sindarov is in top shape. I think we have their camera as well.

We do have well minded our ship guys.

Yes, here we see. लेको ही इस thinking ही इस actually under a lot of pressure.

Yeah, this is I we have the answer हर्षित भाई. We have knight f six, rook d five. ये दो moves अपने को suggest किए गए हैं knight f six and rook d five. Guys, knight f six is a decent move. It's not a problem but सागर डू नॉट सी द इंजन योर जाओ किर्स गेम इज़ क्रेजी व्हाट इज़ द मूव एंड सम ऑफ़ यू हैव मैनेज्ड टू फाइंड अ शॉट बिग शॉट रोक डी फाइव बाय बाय बाय इफ़ नाइट डी सिक्स इन ट्रबल देन कम्स इन नाइट डी सिक्स चेक विथ द क्वीन एंड द बिशॉप द किंग इज़ बस्टर बाय बाय बाय But look, if queen takes d5, just over there, queen takes b4, knight f6 is also there. And if e takes d5, so we— it's still the calculation would have gone on.

This one is queen e4 and queen takes a8. And this was Jawahir's idea. Peter did not follow it, guys.

Do you know? अरे लीजिए स्टार्ट हो गया। हाँ, it started.

Amazing, amazing.

Actually, I was told by someone that we are actually featured on YouTube.

Really?

So it's actually our stream is YouTube featured. Wow!

Let's go.

So they are YouTube. YouTube is promoting chess and it's like okay guys, you are doing a good job. That's so so.

Thank you guys because I think you all like the stream.

Guys, इस बार पे like कर दो यार stream. Let's Go. That's such a nice, nice update. By the way, look at this game. It was nothing short of great, like positive, positive ideas from White because look at Javokir's preparation.

He's a Javokir. Whenever I see him playing, I fear the World Championship match will be like so intense, you know.

By the way, भाई वो जो CS में जैसा कि attack करता है ना वैसे ही chess में भी attack करता है भाई. Full on going for it.

Oh, but the position is still equal.

लग रहा था ऐसे, but look, Peter is also so well prepared, like amazing.

Yeah, I think we are back, and maybe we'll have the board also slowly.

Sorry, too much traffic due to YouTube feature, says Rashid.

Sorry guys, actually the thing is we are on a public Wi-Fi here with our camera and the chessboard, but we are And by the way, guys, did we see the women games?

Yeah, we saw all the women games. And right now we are looking at Sindharo's game. We were looking at Nihal, but the full chat was like Sindharo, Sindharo, Sindharo. Because the top boards today are going to be— are very, uh, you know, well matched, many of them. And there could be some upset, but it's a very critical round, guys.

We are back fully back. Let's go, let's go, let's go! Right now we look at the game of Pragnananda. Yeah, versus Anish Giri and see what's happening there. Early days in this game. I would say that this will be a very long fight.

Yeah, and I still stand by my prediction that Pragnananda will find a way to, to win the game.

I also stand by By my prediction, there will be a draw, which is more close. Yeah, with this kind of setup.

But no, but you know what Harshit is saying? These knights are going. Who is saying? Slowly, Harshit.

Ah, Harshit is saying.

अगर जीतना, अगर जीतना है तो then you need your pieces in creating some sort of attack.

No.

Yeah, I mean, I guess one idea for white. I'm curious. Like, you know, I always look at very aggressive ideas, but let's try to see if it works. Bishop to g five as white. And if h6, does ever this concept of going h4 ever work or not? Really, not really.

Yeah, but it's interesting.

h takes g5, and I guess my knight on f3 actually stops me from getting my queen into h5.

So, and then you have time to go knight.

Yeah, but okay, so this is too much. I think Prag cannot really go for anything, uh, anything direct. He needs to play a slow game.

We'll do this. He'll castle.

Yeah.

Then he'll play Rook e1, then he'll play Bishop e3, then they will trade. Yeah, then he will try to get d4, maybe a small edge, try to press a bit. Exactly. And then agree to a draw.

By the way, Arjun was under small pressure, so really go to his, his game. He was playing against Jordan, but he finds the best move here after Rook e1. Yeah.

कितना टाइम भाई वी कैन हैव अर्जुन पीओवी राइट वी हैव दैट यहाँ पे सेकंड पेज पे नो आई मीन लाइक वी कैन हैव वी कैन लुक इट विथ ब्लैक राइट यस बट इफ वी आर गोइंग फॉर दिस व्यू देन वी कैन't लुक एट इट फ्रॉम हिज पीओवी बिकॉज़ देन द कैमरा ऑफ हिज इज़ ऑन नियर द ब्लैक बोर Yeah, Arjun has gotten up and we looked at the opening.

It was some sort of a Tarasch, um, opening that Arjun went for. The only difference being that he hadn't committed the knight on f6, which gave him the possibility to play knight ge7. And this was the small deviation in the opening.

Castles, and Arjun is giving up a pawn. But he didn't take it because take, take, take. This is hanging, right? A free pawn. Yeah. What is the compensation?

I think h3 maybe.

I think in general, uh, the thing is that the bishop on b6 is super active and we are also getting access to the open d-line. The knight on b3 also not the best piece. And, uh, I think after queen e7, rook d8, uh Black plays automatic.

So Arjun was aware of this and so was Jordan. Yeah, so Jordan didn't snatch the pawn.

Jordan wasn't sure.

Jordan wasn't sure.

Yes, Jordan is Jordan.

Jordan is Jordan.

Wesley is Wesley.

Wesley. d4 played, and now came the move Knight a4 attacking Here, here, here, here. I mean, there's a lot of pressure.

There is, but Arjun just calmly develops his rook to e8. And after rook e1, white also playing this prophylactic move, he finds the best move h6, which is amazing. I was a bit worried because in this position white can play rook c1, and it's very easy to play with white. But h6 is a nice way to ask white a question: do you want to take my knight on e7? Do you want to go back? Make a decision, Jordan.

I think he will take, and then after queen takes, knight takes b6. Knight takes b6 first, ab, and now taking here is a free pawn. So actually taking with the queen would be a mistake.

Yeah, you might need to take on e7 with the rook, and this also allows your rook to potentially put pressure on the e2 pawn. Also, whenever we move the queen and bishop, Amruta, notice how rook On a8 is going to happily join the other rook on e7 coming to e8.

But what if I take now?

Exactly.

Takes, takes, bishop takes, pawn takes, knight takes. And this is a blunder, guys. Black to play. What is a great move here?

Only move. Crazy. Yeah, yeah, yeah. We will go to Sundar's game. It has been going crazy, crazy. We have checked this game night of six के बाद कुछ move हुआ है क्या guys?

Yeah, we did check Sindarov's game.

It looks like a crazy game but Manisha Patil, Atharva KD, Sharveel Shah, Devar Shah, Sanchit Gupta.

Rakshit, Rakshit भाई आप top three में आ गए। Chess hero ये बनाते-बनाते bar बनाते-बनाते level बढ़ रहा है। And if E3 now Amruta There is c5 and the knight has to move, otherwise it will be lost.

So this is how the game continues.

Then it's fine. Yeah, if you can't take with the knight, you have to take with the queen.

But this is—

this—

and we now enter the preparation of Dubov where Black can consider Bishop e6, can consider Queen c7, and, uh This is super active. This is great compensation for black.

Equal.

Yeah. So then Arjun's game objectively right now I can round up.

That would be great.

I would love if Prag.

Prag Anish let's say objectively equal. So draw मतलब just एक ये मतलब equal है। I'm joking. Sarin with the white pieces needs to strike I guess and Gukesh also. With the black piece. So I think Nihal has to strike. आज उसपे pressure है with the white.

I actually, I'm going to say that it's gonna be Prag and Gukesh again who are going to keep pressing.

But then Gukesh is black.

Yeah, but already I like his position. He has gotten f6, bishop e6, and he has, uh, he's gonna have a clear plan of putting pressure on Liamy's king. And I think after his win yesterday, Gukesh is feeling confident. And I think in this position, uh, already I think one would choose black, or at least I would choose black.

Yeah, I think overall white has got their pieces on good squares, but black's position is more natural, right? Like, for example, uh, there are more ways to improve it. Knight f7, rook d8, as you said, g5, g4, try to play something weird. Whereas white to break something is not easy.

I guess white actually wants with this move rook a4 to go bishop d2 and pawn to b4. This might be white's concept of challenging the pawn on c5, and that's the only break white has. Exactly. To play b4. Uh-huh.

Because to go d4 is impossible. That's like a stronghold for black. So maybe Erwin Lamy will play like, for example, uh, Gukesh can go rook ad8. Bishop d2 with the idea of b4.

Yeah, but now with the rook on d8, we can just play knight f7 because b4, we have bishop takes c4, which would be a spoiler in, uh, white's party.

Yeah, that's what Jaikar had asked. Bishop c4, rook c4, b6, bishop e3, knight f7.

But Jaikar, why do you want to give up the bishop straight away? Like, you know, let's wait for it.

Our bishop is really nice, and this is a very important, important strategic idea that you don't want to give up your light-squared bishop for the knight on c4 just yet. You should only give it up if we get something in return, and getting access to the d-line and giving White doubled pawns on c2 and c4 would be a good enough reason. But to give it away for nothing, I don't think it's worth it.

Like, generally, Harshit bhai, do you sometimes give anything to anyone without getting anything in return?

Well, yes, but this is, this is a game.

No, no, just life.

Yeah, of course. Yes, for example, I mean, if my friends ask me for some help, I, I don't, I don't think twice before, uh, helping them, right?

And suppose if you are walking around and someone asks you for your number, would you give it to them?

Well, depends for what reason.

What reason?

Or depends who is asking for what reason, maybe.

Wow, with all the answers. Do you think Vidy gets another game? Depends. I think last time, if you remember, Hari Krishna also played 2 games, but then he got 1 game when India faced China. And, uh, China, uh, was a very interesting pairing because they placed Hari Krishna because he's known for his knowledge against the Chinese players. And I think for Vidit, maybe it is, uh, he will come to the board for one of the two reasons. One would be that one of the players is tired or out of form. The other is that if somehow the pairing is such that Vidit has very high confidence against that opponent, has a very plus score, big plus score, then maybe he goes and plays.

And another reason could be if they want to completely throw off their opponent's preparation. Like, imagine, they must think that I'm gonna play against Gukesh or Nihal for sure, but then suddenly Vidit comes in on board number 4, and that could really, uh, change the preparation, uh, true, for their opponents.

In fact, we actually met with it yesterday, and, um, I must say that he is adding so much of value to the team because You know, of course, the team has 2 seconds, the team has a coach, but Vidit is like so heavily involved. And as a top player, he can actually help everyone in the preparation. He can actually help everyone with— they're also doing physical fitness together and so many things. So, actually, Vidit is that very positive element in the team for India. And you can imagine the amount of pressure difference someone can make. If everyone is in a positive mood, that person is like what, Harshit bhai, you are always talking about, right? That's the hype master.

Exactly. And, uh, Vidit is more than just a hype master. He, he can actually contribute in terms of, in terms of his, uh, in terms of playing as well. We saw him playing in the first 2 rounds. I think he will come, guys. Vidit will play a game, I think, in one of the future rounds. But right now, let's focus on this match.

Against have we had the Euro focus moves of the day?

No, not yet because I don't think it's. I mean, it it has to yet reach some position. But we have a big super chat by Durga Prasad Mahapatra who has sent one thousand rupees and it's a sticker on the rocket. I believe because we were on Nihal's board.

Ah yes, rocket.

But do you know Durga Prasad Mahapatra? He's a very well-known trainer in West Bengal. In fact, he used to work at the Alekhine Chess Club and has been a coach for innumerable top players like Arun Yadav Ghosh. Um, I'm pretty sure even like all the big names of West Bengal chess whom we hear. He himself is not a very high-rated player, but he's an insanely good coach to make good players. So a big shout out to Durga Prasad Mahapatra ji for always, uh, supporting and for supporting Indian chess. Through his amazing work. Yeah, by the way, we— I'm a bit surprised of this game that Nihal went Queen d4.

Yeah, me too. I'm very surprised by Queen d4 because it's just preparation, you know. But generally you want to like allow Black to capture the pawn on b2 if they want because that allows White a lot of, uh, development and initiative. So King h1 here was what I was expecting Nihal to play. And after Queen takes b2, something like Queen e1 and, uh, play this position.

Wild position.

A wild position, but, uh, White is gonna have a lot of attacking chances. He instead goes for Queen d4.

Do you think Nihal studied Luke van Wely and saw that he's a very aggressive player and that he can actually play, um, more positionally with him?

Ah, that could be a possibility, but I also feel because he had 1 hour 30 minutes on the clock He has studied, and, uh, many times Sicilian endgames can be very tricky because it will feel— Black will feel very comfortable, but there are these nuances, little nuances, which he might be more aware of. Nihal, and, uh, for me it seems so simple.

Yeah, I agree. Like, you know, Bishop e6, Rook c8.

As much as I am, I'm a fan of Nihal and want him to do well, I, I would be lying if I said I like his position. I, I'm, I'm always playing Najdorf with Black and These were the kind of positions I wanted.

But then why will he go at— look, he had one hour. No, how much time did he have here? Bishop e3. Yeah, well, I think, I think he did not consider Knight e5.

Maybe Knight e5 by, uh, if we come back, Bishop e3 and Knight e5 is a very good move because if you try to win a pawn, most natural move, not exchange bishop, is Bishop c5 check is a common— I mean, check and you lose the bishop. And if you can't do that and you play Bishop b3 already, this knight is now well placed. You go Bishop e6, and again, through tactical means, Bishop takes e6, fb, Knight e5. Even in such a position, this is very good for Black. Black to play. What is the move you will play here to gain compensation?

Not that easy to find this one. I, I would say that is quite difficult to find as black and to evaluate being down upon. Uh, will be interesting to see if Van Wely is gonna find this.

Look at Geetha Hari, Manisha Patil. We have some amazing people in the chat who are just completely zoned in. Devarsha, Rakshit Singh, Arush Kashyap, Divya Rani. Wow!

Guys, it's heating up here at the FIDE Chess Olympiad. It's round 5 already and we are facing a very strong team, Netherlands, and, uh, we need as much of your support as possible. Do like the stream, do show some hearts for our Indian players and us because this is what we are rooting for, for India to defend both their medals.

Okay, is my first chess Let's go. By the way, it says if Dubov was playing the Olympiad, then for sure Vidit would have gotten a game against him. Nice one. Mahapatra sir was Surya and Sandeepan sir's coach at Alagain Chess Club. Very cool, very cool. Yeah, by the way, I just said hi to 2 little kids over here, and there are many, uh, many people I see who are wearing the shirt of सिंधाराव के चेस एकेडमी और इट्स इट्स इंटरेस्टिंग हाउ थिंग्स हैव चेंज्ड फॉर सिंधाराव आफ्टर विनिंग कैंडिडेट्स एंड आई हो टुकड़ा आई वेंट तू अ सैलॉन टुडे एंड दे आस्क मी लाइक आर यू अ टूरिस्ट और आर यू हियर फॉर वर्क?

आई सेड आई एम हियर फॉर शख्मत एंड देन दे इम Pop star in this country.

Pop star?

He is very popular.

Crazy, crazy.

By the way, guys, did you see what Arjun did here after h6, Bishop d2? He pushed h5.

What?

Can you believe it?

No, that's what I love about Arjun's game. You can never believe what he is doing.

What a move! Because he's trying to go h4, but now Jordan comes back, Bishop g5, and he asks Arjun Are you going to be, you know, uh, facing some difficulties?

You know, I really want to think of the move f6, which looks bad, weakening, I know, but I would look at that.

It's logical to think of playing f6, but I think maybe we weaken our kingside a bit too much.

Maybe Arjun goes f5.

No, no, no, that Then again, G five दे रहा नहीं है ना?

भाई but I think H five is maybe I don't know if it's the neuro focus move of the day but it is the neuro shock move of the day भाई.

So let's have it at least as a small part of today that this could be a contender for our neuro focus move of the day. So remember guys.

अभी उसके लिए भी shortlist हो रहे awards होने वाले हैं। At this point, Amruta, if we see, Jaikar is saying Harjun may have read Harry Potter, hence h5.

Harry the h-pawn.

h5, guys, is the neurofocus move of the day, and Bishop g5. But it does feel like a very sensitive position for Black, playing with fire, I feel.

Yeah, but the, the engines approve of this, and this is the dynamism that we always were waiting to see from Arjun. Guys, you know, Arjun's game was never like objectively like, you know, something that we were, uh, happy about, but it was these crazy ideas, the move like pawn to h5, the crazy aggressiveness, and this is the way how he defeated these 2650-2700 players.

Guys, I have a question.

Yes.

Okay, you didn't see engine, right?

I saw it.

अरे I also saw it. So then what is the?

Then we'll ask the.

Yeah, Harshad did you see it?

Harshad, can you come up with a crazy idea? मतलब ऐसा idea कि which Arjun will play now and that will be the neural focus move for sure.

If that happens.

It's so crazy. I mean for me bishop e six is no, no bishop e six is okay, bye. That's that's that's our move. But think like Arjun, Harry guys. Think like Arjun bhai.

Yeah, what was the symbol for Arjun सागर? You had asked.

Tiger.

Tiger.

Guys, tiger हो जाए chat में। Larry ने पहले move करने दो उसको। By the way, कोई इनको बोलना चाहिए कि maybe we can increase the power of air conditioning, no?

हाँ, तो गर्मी लग रहा है। Right?

Arjun भाई white pen क्या आना पड़ेगा?

अरे यहाँ पे sun थोड़ी ना है। नहीं पर आज थोड़ा गर्मी तो है। You release the sunshine। हाँ, for you। Oh, Arshbir Singh! Look at him, Harshit bhai. First, look at this move.

It's the cool move.

H four.

And if you take, let me think here. अभी मेरे को भी नहीं पता। F six now. F six five.

This is a bad idea.

Bad? Yeah, very bad, right?

I don't think black should do it.

Why?

Why? Okay, why no?

Sorry.

F four के लिए इधर F four suppose तो D three आ रहा है। I think this is a bad idea.

This is very much Arjun's alley.

For me, it's a bad because like I am not capable of like handling such handling so much chaos.

But Arjun is right.

Come on, you are and you are you can handle all your phone जा रहा है ये हो रहा है so many things you can handle.

You're on the board, Amruta.

But when we have an option of playing a simple move like bishop e six, I don't think h four is even Even consideration. Yeah, I don't think H four is even considered by Arjun unless he knows it.

I mean, he may know this idea. Exactly. H five is also not considerable.

Why would you cut?

That is true.

So here, maybe Arjun already knows you can go H four, or maybe he knew H five is a move and now is figuring it out over the board.

Yeah, but what if his mindset changes? Like he had planned H four earlier.

You know, Amruta. I feel that if he had planned H4, of course it makes sense. But with the black pieces in this team tournament, do you think, Amruta, it makes sense to play H4, or do you think it makes sense to keep it under control?

I think you can't always think like— so many games which Nihal won, they were completely out of control. True. So, uh, you have to just forget at that point what people are saying.

Uh, Arjun is CM. Chaos must.

Chaos must. Wow.

भाई आपको ऐसी का वो बात करके आना है तो उसको पूछ सकते हैं। Otherwise we put the game of Coulomb, Coulomb का game डालते हैं। Claudia Coulomb. So let's go to the women's board now and see what was happening. Oops sorry guys.

So is H4 E Persian plays and that's the neuro focus move right?

Right, so for example, knight— yeah, that would be for sure. I'm just going through what Humpy's game is. Oh nice, Humpy has a nice position actually.

Later they made a lot of moves.

Yeah, yeah, but even this, like let's say take, king takes, and I was wondering if queen d5 check, take, and ed5, this would be very even position. And, uh, let's see if Hampi is able to do more than just a draw today. So will be interesting to see.

Actually, very nice comment by Arma. I have gotten an award from Hampi when I was young.

Wow!

Because I won a school tournament. I wasn't even that good of a chess player at that time. Could you ask her if she remembers Gems International School?

Okay, I will ask when we meet next.

Hopefully, I will remember to ask her. Amazing, amazing opening for Vaishali here because after knight c six, queen d three, a six and queen d seven, she's preparing long castle. I think she's better.

Bye, Vaishali is playing against this girl Maltshevskaya, who was the former world junior champion, and she has a book written on that entire journey.

Crazy, Amruta ने भी बोला ये story.

कौन सा book है ना?

Mental game.

The mental game. And it has lot of pictures taken by Amruta. Oh, that she may not have said. The COVID photo is of the book is by Amruta.

So, Amruta is insane.

On the right there is already and it's written by her coach.

Coach. जी नाम आई। She said correct.

Gabrico maybe. No.

Guys, this position really. Uh, very, very inspired.

A lot of energy, lot of space. Vaishali is playing fearlessly today.

And look at the pawn on f5. It's so, so lucky that we have these doubled pawns because the pawn on f5 makes sure that the knight on e4 has an outpost. The pawn on f7 makes sure that the king has shelter.

And also e5, brilliant point there. So Vaishali looking good, very good.

It is by Alexander Galkin. क्या होते हैं? Nice. 18 months का हर journey has written in that whole thing because she won the world junior girls and 2022 European Rapid Championship.

Nice. By the way, I'm a big fan of Divya's position actually. It may look it's equal, but look at the knight aiming for the c6 square.

Well, let me just tell you about the story. About this game, because if you go back a few moves, you would see— so it started off with this Neo-Grünfeld Opening, just for everyone watching again to show you. And Divya played this move pawn to a4, which was her prep. She played a5, and after knight c4, she pushed a6. This made Polon think for 16 minutes, which— and then she played the move queen to c5, which is a nice move, which is a good move. Queen takes d4 was played by Divya, but after Rook b8, Divya is now thinking for 30 minutes.

Oh my God.

So even though like visibly the position looks good for white, in fact black might be— might— black might be closer to equality.

Because imagine if I take here, take here, and take here, then take here and take here and take here and take here. This might end in a draw.

Exactly.

Although in this entire variation I had Knight c6. So maybe there is something to fight for here with the knight coming to c6. I think that is the key plan that we have to look at.

Yeah, doesn't it feel like you are so well prepared and you want to, you know, surprise your opponent, but opponent is also prepared? And if they are prepared, it is ending like in a draw, which is like no chance at all.

It is like modern chess, but you will see that Modern, yeah.

I mean, of course, like, I would prefer at least non-preparation but a middle game position which you can go.

But you know, this means that the players are doing their hard work, uh, behind, uh, behind the, behind the game. And look at this creative move by Divya. I love this move by Divya.

Knight to a3 after 3rd तीन मिनट्स ऑफ़ थॉट कुछ भी नहीं हो रहा है क्या?

Like night A three रुके three हो रहे हैं। No after night A three she might have a sneaky sneaky move prepared.

Whoa man guys wow Divya crazy trap very tricky tricky this is very nice by the way I like this तुम जिम करते हो हर्षित भाई नहीं please तुम भागने जाते हो कभी-कभी तुमसे नहीं हो पाएगा ये खोलना। एक सेकंड भाई, तो इधर, तो इधर दो भाई। भाई खुल गया भाई। अच्छा। नहीं खुला भाई तो। खुल गया, खुल गया। Let's go सागर भाई। Determination। But yes exactly.

Arush Kashyap the perennial warrior. Karthik Bhagat. Wanderer भाई। Elesh Tripathi, Arnab Dutta, Bishop to F4. And this hits the rook on b8 and is totally winning for Divya. And knight to a3 is a very tricky move.

Very beautiful.

The only move for black to hold equality is going back with the knight to d6, and that is not natural move. Yeah, that's—

she may have to think for at least 10 minutes to figure it out, at least. And if she makes her move quickly, if she goes knight b6 It's over because of bishop f4. So basically going back to d6 is preventing this diagonal hit of the bishop.

But this is a very nice way to keep the game going, to try and outplay full on in this endgame. So Divya is trying to press. Vaishali doing well. How about Vantika? Vantika, oh, she has a very good position as well. And you know, the reason she has a good position is because of the sixth move by black. This full move pawn to h six.

हाँ ये सब मुझे ऐसा लगता है that these players are preparing so well. And yesterday Abhijit Kunte did reveal that the seconds are working throughout the night.

And just before entering the playing hall, I saw a very inspiring moment because Vandika was with her mom and she has always been a big supporter of Vandika's journey. She's always traveling with Vandika, making sure she's in good spirits. But there was also Arjun Kalyan and she— he was talking with Vandika and maybe showing some lines even 5 to 10 minutes before the game.

Wow.

And this shows the kind of determination Vandika has come here with.

Wow. Amazing, that's very good to see. And Vantika is always known for her balancing of things. She is like coming to tournaments, studying for her exams, and so even in chess she's generally preparing until the very end. So some players like it, some players don't like it, uh, so that's based on each player. By the way, we did have a move in Vaishali versus, uh, before we go to the women's section, uh, में सेक्शन बिशप टेक्स डी सिक्स क्वीन टेक्स डी सिक्स इस ऑन द बोर्ड या एंड देन ब्लैक इज़ क्लीयरली गोइंग तू लॉन्ग केस राइट या आई थिंक हम्पी माइट ड्रा टुडे दैट्स माय फीलिंग व्हाट डू यू थिंक लाइक दिस पोजीशन हम्पी इज़ थिंकिंग आई डोंट नो व्हाई और शी मास्ट हैव टेकन य For example. Yeah, I mean, of course such a position is still rich with—

I would maybe take with the knight here, uh, just to stop, uh, from you getting the minority attack. King takes e7, and I think this should be very, very—

but even here it's a small edge, right?

Yeah, yeah, maybe a small edge, but I think it should be, should be holdable for Olivia. Uh, will be a long game though. Let's go to our Queen d5 check. On board, she did play.

By the way, a question to all of you here: Olivia Kiolbasa is the girlfriend of which player?

अगर हर्षित भाई का सपने सुना रहेगा, तो वो याद रहेगा। By the way, नेहल बताया था already हाँ बताया था हर्षित भाई आज five pairs के नाम reveal करने वाले हैं। वो Lorenzo Lodici exactly yes. By the way, नेहल says वंतिका did give a final at Phoenix Small Mumbai, and she won it with a score of 19-1, I guess. Yeah. Arshbir is saying, Sagar bhai, 5 years ago you started a Caro-Kann course on YouTube, but it was abandoned without covering all the variations. Or am I not able to find the videos? Now you can check out the Chess Ranga Sagar Shah's Caro-Kann course, and, uh, it is there. It's very, very expensive, but still it's worth it.

Which course?

नगरशाला कारोकान को.

It's only thirty six rupees, no?

इसके बाद बोल देता हूँ. Ah, by the way guys, today we have launched something new. It's still building up. So something new is coming up. And we have actually worked on it a bit. You know, it's still on the process of being built. But one of the things, Harshit bhai, is that regularly people have been asking us where to find a trainer. कि भाई मेरे को trainer मिलना चाहिए, कोई तो training मिलना चाहिए and so on. So we decided that we will build a website where people we have right now roughly come up with the name Chess Dial. Oh, where people can actually list themselves as trainers. Oh wow. And then have— can be rated, and people can find them based on region, online, and everything. So we are right now inviting coaches across India and the world to list themselves there.

ChessDial.com.

It's actually right now the name is there, but it's called coach.chessbase.com. In right now. You can go there, but it will become chessdial.com. It's just beta stage, very— for very few people here who are watching this. I think 5,400 people. But if there are any coaches here, can go and list themselves. And if you are a student, you can let us know. The link is in the description. You can check and give us some feedback. This is something which we have always wanted because everyone was always asking us Kibai, can you please give us you know a way to approach these? For example, I want a coach for a beginner level. I live here. I live there. And then we were like from long time. It was also Amruta's dream. This one. Amruta, you are very upset.

What happened?

No, no.

I'm not upset. No, it was. It was. It is a need for the people.

By the way, I'm very excited to have that website being developed. I'm also very excited about Arjun's game and whether they will play H four.

So pawn to H four.

I want to analyze H four over here because I think a lot of people wanted. अब सिर्फ भी वहाँ से because you had moved after H five. And there was a curiosity which I held on to for at least.

Let's go, let's go.

So ha, h four if it is played bishop h four we saw f six as the move. But here white has f four, white has g four. What feels more natural?

Well, f four runs into knight f five, so that can be eliminated jumping into e three and threatening knight takes h four. So I don't think f four will happen.

Also d three.

Yeah, also d3 check opens up the bishop, so this is not gonna happen. Um, I guess g4 is possible, but then bishop takes g4.

You have to give.

Yeah, and this is the reason why I'm not a big fan of this, because I, I like this position for white.

Bye-bye. Okay, what will you do over here?

Because I can just see knight, uh, c5, and this f diagonal has opened up.

So let's say you are— you, you guys, I'm playing with engine and human mind.

We can just turn off this, yeah? If you want.

नहीं नहीं मुझे चाहिए वो। अच्छा। We don't have to look.

She can look.

Not all the moves. Harshit is like stockfish के साथ कैसे मैं जीत सकता हूँ? ठीक है। But natural move है तो फिर खेल सकते हैं। Knight c five खेला इधर। This is under attack. Knight knight.

How is that logical?

Attacking h four. Okay.

Bishop back.

Bishop back. यहाँ पे now I want to defend this.

Correct.

That's also my move.

Okay, so this is one variation. G four.

Oh!

Play?

No way. No way.

No way.

Why? Let's look at. Let's look at Arjun.

How?

मजेदार.

How did Arjun play this move?

भाई दिखाओ अजूबाई। Guys, you cannot like.

I cannot tell you as you know a player how difficult it is to play this move H four.

So good.

Absolutely.

अजूबाई.

I love it and I love this play and he is shocked. The Yordan Van Forest has gone into wild wilderness.

And Arjun is saying that I don't care if I'm white or black, I am going to continue playing the chess I love to. And h4 is such a dynamic move, a pawn sacrifice. Well, for everyone watching, the idea is of course if white takes with the g pawn, white just completely spoils the structure. This is good news for black.

If he takes with the bishop, Jordan will take gh4 because Jordan भी क्रिएटिविटी का बाप है। भाई हंड्रेड परसेंट नहीं। भाई आपने H four भी हंड्रेड परसेंट बोला था, हो गया। दो स्मूथी के लिए वापस लगाओगे? भाई हो गया ये दो स्मूथी। और दो, फिर नया। Double or nothing? Double or nothing भाई? Yeah.

So H four and I am saying that एक स्मूथी है। Jordan worthy to try apple plus celery.

Oh oh but G H four Six के बाद, I was wondering if knight five. Yeah, we'll go slow.

But wait a second, we need to show the neuro focus move.

घर घर लगाया भाई दो drink क्या ही है?

That he'll take gh four.

Yeah, gh four is I mean he will either first take on b six. Yes, this is the neuro focus move of the day. But you know, if knight takes b six, by the way, big big shout out to neuro and thank you for supporting us because of them. We are able to see some incredible moves happening here.

पर दे तो सही वो new row. Oh guys, make sure you are about eighteen years of age. So what the important thing today we have a new pack because we did finish many of the things for all.

So F six.

You want?

Yes, please. Thank you.

So you are a fan of the blue mint flavor? Guys, we were analyzing this and we want to just tell you that Jordan right now is surprised. And look at him there in the background behind Anish. He's like, "Yeah, Arjun." Or Arjun इधर उधर घूम रहा है. Can we have a look at the entire? No, Arjun is just sitting there.

And Lami gets up. He takes a look at Nihal's board, and he'll soon take a look at Jordan's board and look at his reaction. He's like, "Wait a second! What is that move that Arjun played?" Srinath comes in and takes a look at Arjun's board as well. There are many people gathering around Arjun's board now because. Pawn to h4 is just a stunner. It's a stunner.

Crazy, why? हम्म ये लाइव एंड इफ जी टेक्स ह फोर विच सागर भाई थिंक्स विल हappen इस क्वाइट अनलाइकली भाई व्हाट यू विल डू यू टेल मी फर्स्ट व्हाई इट्स नॉट अबाउट द मूविंग आई फील दैट इफ देर इज़ नथ लाइक इफ देर इज़ अ नॉर्मल प्लेयर ही माइट इवन से आह व्हाट द बिग डील आई विल जस्ट तू ये कर रहा है मैं मैं I'm the most creative player in the world against me will you do this now I will show you I can also be creative and he will take basically we are having right now two godfathers over you fighting oh godfather movie नहीं देखी तूने हाँ godfather दो godfather हुआ था तू अच्छा अर्जुन and यार्ड and अर्जुन gets up from his chair after making the move pawn to h4 This is, this is actually not a stylistic clash.

This is a clash between 2 players with the same style, which is dynamic play and, uh, and creative play. And I did, I did mention yesterday that, you know, Arjun is a slightly superior version of Jordan in this, in this regard.

Oh, Gukesh just made a move. Ah, okay, sorry.

तो आफ्टर H four आह नो सर G H four won't happen I think रुक C one अगर G H four हुआ तो क्या करोगे हाँ क्या करोगे तुम बोलो क्या करना है भाई ten push ups हो जाएगा बीच में वहाँ पे हाँ और अगर नहीं हुआ तो तुम करोगे भाई मैं नहीं भाई मैं तो दो smoothie दूँगा भाई ये क्या भाई smoothie भाई दो smoothie मैं मेरे whatever I can do I am doing भाई व्हाट दिस इज अनफेयर भाई भागने को बोल भाई चार किलोमीटर दो किलोमीटर ओके आई विल रन पाँच किलोमीटर्स अभी अभी नहीं आज रात को फ्रॉम हियर टिल द गेट आई विल गो रनिंग दैट इज नॉट फाइव दैट इज टू एंड टू किलोमीटर्स ओनली यहाँ से तुम उधर जाओगे यूथ होटल अपना यूथ होटल तक चलेंगे इनसे भी भागेंगे। भाई भागेंगे यहाँ पांच किलोमीटर। GH4 नहीं होने वाला। GH4 हुआ तो you will do.

I mean it can also happen after Knight b6, ab6 and GH4. Like GH4 could happen.

ऐसा नहीं भाई। अभी GH4। भाई I said GH4 means it will happen GH4. This also is ये क्या unfair bet है भाई? आप बोल रहे हो four होगा। ये ball पे नहीं होगा, अगले ball पे होगा। The thing is knight b six a capture, right?

I cannot say that Jordan might think I should take out that bishop or not.

ठीक है भाई देखते हैं। कल अमृता सिर्फ stream करेगी। दोनों बाहर होंगे। पुत्ते पीछे लगेंगे तुम्हारे। By the way people are really wanting to go and Mukesh is bored.

Okay.

सागर make vlog of wow.

Come back guys this is brilliant. Amrita just to Change your focus to this game because Gukesh found Queen C7 and B5. This is spectacular by Gukesh.

Why is this so spectacular?

Why? Because he understood that he needs to change the focus from playing on the king side to the queen side, and this shows total board awareness. Very often when we focus on one side of the board, we just keep on looking at that direction. But for Gukesh to play also on the queen side is just classy.

Wow, that's amazingly explained by Harshit bhai. By the way, important this plan was, Queen c7, b5. Now only thing is the rooks are getting exchanged on the a-file. And is this moving towards draw? You will say black has the initiative.

I like black's position. I like black's position because right now Queen a1, which looks like a tempting move, is actually a mistake.

Zing Chess has super chatted. Chess dial is a great idea. Keep it up.

Thank you, thank you. And we hope that it will be useful to the chess community. By the way, Queen a1 looks natural because what I was thinking is Rook takes, Queen takes, and b5 feels like it wins a pawn, but it doesn't because of Queen a5 and the queen is hanging.

So I thought that Queen b7, Rook a8 traps the queen. Knight e3, Rook a8.

But I have Knight b6.

Oh wow! Yeah, this is what I thought that this wins black the game, but I guess I missed a move. Oh, rook eight played by the way. Rook takes eight, rook takes eight on the board, and Gukesh is gonna try to keep this game going.

Yeah.

And he will then make a decision based on other boards whether he wants to keep this game going or if a draw is fine.

My pura match बहुत even लग रहा है right now because if you look at Gukesh's game equal, Nihal Sarin Equal.

Yeah, in fact, no, this is very interesting.

Wow, wow, my Luke Van Vliet is showing his class. And the thing is, Luke Van Vliet might be very good at such positions.

Exactly, this is the position Luke should not have got because it's a very standard and, uh, experience will count a lot over here.

So, okay, so basically draw here. Arjun versus Jordan, who I mean can go any direction. Yeah, this one is now क्रेजी गेम एंड अनिश वर्सेस प्रग। आई थिंक टुडे प्रग हैज़ अलॉट ऑफ़ रिस्पONSिबिलिटी ऑन हिज़ शॉल्डर्स एंड ही विल डिलीवर। आई होप ही डिलीवर्स बिकॉज़ द थिंग इज़ इट डज़न फील लाइकली दैट टुडे यू वांट निहाल निहाल एंड अर्जुन में डिलीवर दैट्स लुकिंग अनलाइक। डू यू But if India has to win, then Prag needs to beat Anish, if that is the situation.

Yeah, I mean, no, it's clear from the time, uh, Prag has a 30-minute time advantage. Prag is in excellent shape. He has always been getting great positions in this tournament. I don't see why he's, uh, not gonna press Anish quite a lot here. And just somehow I feel like it won't be easy for Anish to play this because he— it's Feels like he's he's struggling to make a decision. Like generally, you would not think Anish would think for 26 minutes in this position. He's thinking for 26 minutes.

Oh my God! Anish is coming under time trouble. Let's go. I mean, Anish has to play carefully here. He cannot really take this so slowly. By the way, some questions about chess style being asked by people. Can you make it across India? Not just Maharashtra. Of course, we want to make it across world. We started with the just.

Few trainers that we— beta testing is happening.

So we want, we would love for trainers to list themselves and give us feedback if the listing process was smooth.

Yeah, if you are from Germany or somebody, for example, like Kaewal said he wants to list himself, then the map is expanding, right? So then it will not match.

Yeah, yeah. No, there are already people outside Maharashtra, there are everywhere, and the main idea is to enable people, for coaches and students, to connect to each other, which was until now very difficult and not properly verified, not properly, you know, um, done. So like there are websites, like of course on Lichess coaches are listed, there are coaches listed on some other platform. Here we want to make it more like properly things are verified. If the coach has not verified something, then there won't be a tick next to the name. And so on. So we'll keep improving it with your feedback, and we will try to create a trusted platform so that people can get good coaches to work. And that's the plan. Of course, more details I want to share as the days go by. And a big shout out to our team members, Harsh, Harsh bhai, who worked extensively on this, and also Adarsh bhai, who has worked our tech team. So thank you so much.

For this, Durgay says Vedant is winning again. Oh my God, the cutie!

Oh, by the way, finally a decision by Anish, which is to take the pawn on d4. Uh, c takes d4 and c5.

Because if you go d5, it's, I think, a positional error, because then c4, and then you have the bishop open. You also have the e5 square. I don't like this position for white, but maybe it's also playable.

Yeah, because we do get access to the d4 square and potentially the c6 square as well. So we do have some upsides to playing the move pawn to d5, but of course we do open up that bishop on a7. And I think this is a— this is a decision, a big moment for Pragg. And I think that's why Anish took 25 minutes.

Pragg needs to choose whether to play d5, d5, or let it be, let the tension be. Right?

E5 is also a move, maybe.

Oh my God, e5, d, d, take, take, and then take this.

I could take with the bishop on d1 as well, but let me think.

That doesn't look—

ah no, I can take with the rook because in the end I have bishop f4, and you also have rook d8 check at the end. Yeah, take, take, bishop f4 wins on the spot.

So e5 is also what Harshit bhai is wanting to do. Take, take, And then take, take, and maybe I don't need to go here. I mean, I don't need to take this pawn.

No, you should.

Instead of e5 or d5, is it possible to maintain the tension over there?

Oh, look, take bishop f4. I thought white has an excellent position, and I doubt if Anish is going to enter this variation.

Right, it's too much.

Yeah, I mean, if Anish Found this after thinking for 25 minutes.

I think Prag will go e5, e5, you know, very likely. But also, guys, guys, guys, e5, d, d, Queen d1, Rook d1. There's no need to take this. You can even go Knight d7 and put more pressure. What's the big deal?

Yeah, but a move like e6, this looks very scary. Okay, yeah, and just to play for compensation, Knight e4 here.

But it's not too much, right? Or it is?

I think it's Won't happen, guys.

Yeah, I feel like Prag may not go for e5 or d5. Exactly. Maybe bishop c2 is one idea.

But wait, bishop c1 का भी I can't.

There is no space for the bishop because if you move it to e3, e4 is hanging, I guess. I mean, other idea is to take here, but then take take seems very even.

No, not at all. No way.

So Prag has a very important decision.

Yeah, bishop c two कैसा move है?

It's a good move, Amrita. It's maybe one of the best moves here.

Okay, guys, everyone knows.

Let's look at Prag's full screen and look at Jordan in the background. Harshit bhai, मैं बोल रहा हूँ, Gtechs H four is incoming. Jordan is thinking and thinking. Get ready for 10 push-ups.

Bye-bye. Get ready to put on your sports shoes. GTX H4 is not happening, by the way. Anish walking, uh, around his teammates' boards trying to get a feeling of what's happening on their boards as well. It's hard to predict what's happening on Jordan's board. Total mess there. Nihal's board looks quite stable for the Dutch team, and Gukesh's board, well Also looks a bit stable. So a lot of emphasis will be on the top board between Prag and Anish. Anish needs to hold himself. And yes, Jordan.

Rohit Bupalam says, Harshit bhai, do you think H4 will affect Jordan psychologically and provoke mistake? I feel it. Look at Jordan. Jordan को ऐसे heart attack type हो रहा है। ऐसे what is he doing?

Why this is the This is a shocker.

I can tell you, guys, Jordan is saying to himself, how can someone make this move against me? I want to prove something. You know, I feel he will take.

And look at Liamy as well, just trying to understand and calculate what exactly is Arjun's idea. Well, bishop takes h4.

एक मिनट, एक मिनट. He's about to play.

Hi, can we go full screen? Bim bim.

नाइट टेक्स बी सिक्स। नो फर्स्ट ही टुक बिशप सी सिक्स। लेट्स गो। भाई ऑल कैप्ट। नो ऑल कैप्चर्स आर फाइन भाई। ये क्या?

भाई ऑल कैप्चर अभी नहीं मारेगा लेकिन जी। गाइस। अभी ये याद रखना सागर भाई ये देखो यहाँ पे छुप रहे हैं। ही शुक कौन है?

ही शुक माय हैंड। भाई आई व्हाट आर I will do it.

You will run tonight?

Tonight. It took on B6. Okay.

You play B6, capture towards the center for sure. नहीं होगा। नहीं मारेगा। Queen D4 होगा अभी। नहीं नहीं। तुझे भागना पड़ेगा। Let's go back.

Ready?

यार सागर yesterday जितना मजा आया था। We went. You know guys, Harshit is insane. We had to leave from here and there was no taxi. या समथिंग सो वी आलवेज हैव टू टेक अ गोल्फ कार्ड टिल अ पॉइंट बेट इज अ बेट गाइस अग्री और वहाँ पे पहुँचे ठीक है एंड वी आर लाइक अभी क्या करें सो वी सेड राजा राजा तो देन वन गाय के राजा राजा इज़ राजा इन द होटल और फिर ऐसे करके हर्षित भाई ने जो सेटिंग किया था करके हमको टैक्सी म Hi, do you know this movie Raja Hindustani?

I, I have not seen it, but my dad loves movies, so I think he puts on these old songs.

Hmm, and you are Harshit Raja and your taxi.

I think that's something. You go with that taxi, right?

So generally, when I like, whenever I travel and I meet someone the first day when I'm traveling in a taxi, Or something. I tried, and if I like him, I try to just stick with him until the end of my travel. I take his contact number, and instead of like dealing with Uber and everything, I just deal with him directly, and I think it's a win-win for both of us.

Wow! Rakshit Singh has superchatted. Check board 63 in open matches, 88 plus section in leeches. You won't regret it. It's one of the shortest games.

Right?

Rules made हो गया क्या आज तूने ओ विश्वासी तू प्ले लेट्स गो, लेट्स गो प्रभु। अनिश टेक्स, भाई अनिश गिरी तू क्लासिक। मी तू, मी तू। नो बट गाइस आई एम टेलिंग यू दैट टुडे आई थिंक प्रग्गी इज़ गोना विन। आई आई डोंट थिंक। ये बोलेगा अनिश इज़ विल बी लाइक एन एक्सपर्ट। बट जस्ट थिंक अबाउट इट। या?

He's making it in 5-7 minutes.

Only time pressure can be one, uh, part of chess.

It's part of the game.

Yeah, you cannot just save time pressure. And by the way, a big fork incoming here. So Bishop b7 looks likely, but once you put your bishop here, guys, this bishop has stopped controlling one square. Which one is that? Earlier it was controlling one square.

And while you guys are thinking about this टिशु, टिशु। थैंक यू। चिंगम चबाने के रेस में मैं जीत गई हूँ, जीत रही हूँ अभी। अच्छा, आउट, नॉकआउट। गोन। यस, F5 गाइस, वेल डन। F5, यस। नाइट कैन जंप इनटू F5। Sir, next time you put a bet on a move, like not like a friendly bet, so you can tell Harshit five thousand times he has to chew the neurogum.

है है है। भाई sixty three बोल रहा है वो। ये वाला है क्या? नहीं नहीं। Eighty eight और sixty three। रक्षित भाई can you tell the name of the player?

हाँ, वो search control F से कर सकते हैं। Then we can find it.

But Prague looking good guys. Prague looking good. Arjun Arjun's opponent, did he make some moves?

We have to stay at Arjun's game because right now it's the game of— okay, we have to stay here.

No, it's actually now equal, right? Bishop e6.

Yeah, I think Arjun's game might, uh, stabilize here as we are trying to find the shortest game played today in 4 moves. By which country is white from?

Oh my God!

एक मिनट दिखाओ तो सही। You can't show.

Wait, I'm showing.

Yeah, this is this can only happen at the PDA Olympiad.

Actually, this I thought can never happen at PDA Olympiad.

Well, we have yeah, I mean, so we have two white pieces, Arlong, Abon.

And with the black pieces, Gamba Francois. And Arelong is from the country of Marshall Islands, and Gamba is from Central African Republic.

Yeah, this should not really happen, but look at what has happened. e4, e5, h3, Bishop c5, h4, Queen f6, Knight c3 played by white, and Queen takes Checkmate.

Scholar's mate.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. As I'm a bit sad to see this actually.

Why?

Because I feel like, uh, the players even from Marshall Islands should have access to at least some formal training so that they don't, uh, lose for the fool's mate.

Yeah, well, now he may learn it. Part of his—

yeah, but I think he's, uh, not played too many Olympiads. Maybe they don't have, you know, trainer. They don't even know that they can call trainers over there.

Yeah, but you know, FIDE is doing this, by the way. They are providing trainers to certain countries which cannot afford it. Like, for example, many of the smaller nations have FIDE trainers who are coaches of their team, and they are from India or some other country. And I think maybe Marshall Islands would also get it in the years to come. Maybe this year there was no one. Yeah, yeah, but still, भाई निहाल सरीन का एक गेम देख लेते हैं। Yeah, I think Van Valley is holding guys.

This is going to be a very close match.

Also let's go to women right?

क्या कितनी बार क्या हुआ? अभी इतना ही हुआ है। So what is the move here to be played by black? That we should open before we shift.

I was thinking bishop e six, but it's not the best. The best move is f six.

But bishop h four, g five, queen f six. This time I'm gonna look at that.

No, no.

First I'll take.

Oh, sorry. Intermezzo I missed.

So f six is the best move. There's also queen takes knight seven is a bad move. Yeah. Queen c7 also possible, Amruta, but it might get hit by the bishop.

Okay, sorry. No pressure.

No, I'm fine. I think Arjun is gonna— is gonna be okay. He's gonna find f6. I don't find f6 to be so difficult.

Then this is clear. We can move now.

Let's, uh, go to women's section. I think that's something we should keep an eye on as well because Humpy's game is going in the direction which we analyzed.

Draw, but I think it's a fight. I think the pawn structure being asymmetrical gives both sides chances. I wouldn't call it like— I think Black can also try, for example, Knight d6.

A good move for Black is f6, g5. Also a5 is a very classy move by Black here, and the idea of a5 is to play against White's idea of Uh, going for the minority attack. And after a3, Black can even consider playing a4, and this just completely, uh, stabilizes the queenside as the pawns on b2 and a3 are fixed. So a5 is a very classy idea by Black in this position, right?

And maybe such a position would most likely be drawn, and, uh, Black can do f6, g5, h5. But this is interesting. I mean, I want to see how willing are the players to fight in such a position, because they—

it—

they could very well take a draw. But I know Humpy doesn't like taking short draws. Olivia, of course, world class. Remember, she scored 9 out of 9 in Chennai Olympiad, so she's too good. Vaishali, I like her strike today.

I think today the duo of Prag and Vaishali both will strike.

भाई, what about king f2? I feel like this is still early.

Yeah. No, भाई, देखो slowly but surely. Now she will go for long castle triple o. And after ef4, there is this sneaky move queen f6. Queen to f6 here is too good, too good move. After fg5, hg5.

Why are you not taking this?

Yeah, also possible. But black is just having an Excellent position, भाई। I think f two पे तो नहीं जाएगा। भाई, but then this pawn is hanging. I mean, maybe long castles is possible, but after f e three, rook e one, we shouldn't take on d two with a check.

Actually, you should have asked that question because I can long castle.

Yeah.

And we reach something like this, which should be, I guess. Equalish rookie one. So I have a feeling that even Vaishali may be not getting too much. Okay, Divya, Divya Deshmukh. And by the way, Claudia Coulon did fight Knight d6. She's very experienced, by the way, Claudia. Yeah, remember?

I—

yeah, you played with her?

No, I've seen her in like when I was young and playing tournaments in, in Poland. She was already an international master.

And Divya makes मूव विच इज़ नॉट द मोस्ट एक्यूरेट। या आई थिंक दिव्या कुड हैव, मस्त हैव थॉट टेक, एंड इफ़ आई टेक हियर एंड टेक दिस, यू लूज़ ईटू, एंड दिस इज़ हैंगिंग। या बिशप ईट्री देर इज़ नाइट जी फोर, एंड बिशप जी सेवन। या आल्सो बी टू इज़ हैंगिंग। सो शी गोज़ बिशप Taking here could be an idea. And Amruta, that is a possible move, but there's something even stronger. Let's think.

We have—

we don't see the lines.

I think Knight f5 is a great suggestion by Amruta because it hits the bishop on e3. But Bishop a7, Rook b2—

guys, this is exactly what Divya might have calculated even Rook takes b2, just check and you lose. So in a way, what is that good move for Black? Not easy, right? No, I think if Divya didn't find it means it's not easy.

Nope, it's not. Knight fe4 could be a move. I think knight f e four is the move. That's my feeling. Yeah, knight f e four threatening bishop takes b two and let's go blocking white's bishop on g two.

Nice.

But knight f e four is a very difficult move to think. Iska harib Peter Parker because we see the bar we can think of it but I think the most natural moves are knight f five, knight g four.

So It's a semi-bluff by Divya, uh, and she has used quite a bit of her time to go for this.

So, and she's also moving around.

Maybe it all comes down to Vantika's board again, and I think Vantika with the black pieces must need to strike here because the other boards, it feels like we are around even, but Vantika needs to win with black, and that would be a huge result for the Indian team. White just played H3. Is it time to just go for C5 here?

But you are talking about striking against a grandmaster, Monica Sochko, who has been—

Monica Sochko is like the legend of Polish chess, just like how Hampi is the legend. Oh, let's go! Good move by Vantika. And time, she still has 35 minutes. Yeah, not bad.

Very good.

And it feels, guys, by the way, that after d takes c5, white is winning a pawn. But black has an idea of playing knight takes c5.

But no, this is not—

queen a5 simply, yeah. And then to capture back the pawn on c5. Any other move for black?

Bishop c6. Let's think it through.

Says 1.5 hours since game started and 0 out of 8 games we have a Significant advantage.

आज तो tough होने वाला है भाई। Yeah, it's a tough game guys. Round day, tough day. Top four stage शायद ऐसे ही रहेगा। ऐसे ही fight होते हैं भाई। If you if you look at Olympiads, the victory if you remember India China last time three draws and Gukesh won in the fifth hour against Wei. That's how we became champions. It never happens in hour one or hour two. It's always when that full tiredness is seeping in, players are like, "अब बस हो गया." That is when the real champion arises. So that is why chess is a sport. It's not just science. It's not just an art. You have to have the stamina.

Absolutely.

And you need to have the energy because energy के बिना कुछ नहीं होता. And that is why many of many times we are having this neural know, just for energy. But in general, not just through that, you need energy on your own.

Yeah.

And I think those who are, uh, chess players have that energy in them. I mean, strong players, I'm not talking about just anyone, to kind of power through when it becomes tough, right? You know, when the going gets tough, they power through. Like, maybe it's about tough gets going.

Exactly.

It could be about your studies, it could be about your Relationships, it could be anything. They are like, okay, I have done it in somewhere. I can do it here as well. So guys, fight on the board.

Yeah, and C five.

और भागने के लिए भी एनर्जी चाहिए ना सागर रात को है क्या?

इतना स्पीच बढ़िया दिया तुमने। बताओ। By the way, after C five, Vantika is fighting here, trying to blast. To open the position. I like how she's playing. It's a pawn sacrifice, but she gets a lot of activity. Very close match in the women's section.

Hi, can we just say that Bishop c6 or Queen a5 will recover this pawn?

Yes.

So let's say here Rook c1, Bishop c6, b3, but this is very good, and then you take and do this, and Black is winning.

Yeah. So, uh, Vantika is gonna have lovely, lovely, better.

I think Vantika has to strike with black, which is tough. Divya's opponent, we have to hope that this move she doesn't find the best move, which is Knight fe4. Uh, in the next board, that is Vaishali, well, her opponent played the best move. I think this might end in a draw, Harshit bhai. The move that— the game that you were thinking will be really Fighting. I think this will end in a draw. And then Hampi Kiolbasa. This game, I'm not sure about the draw yet.

I have a feeling खेल सकते हैं। मतलब I think this game will end in a draw.

Draw होगा, but depends like खेल सकते हैं। You can keep playing on and on.

I think she will check how other boats are going. Yeah. She will keep that.

That's a very good. What a point!

Yeah, that's a good point. And I think for black here, maybe going a five is a good idea.

Yeah. But I I think there's no hidden point.

मुझे लगा what a point was.

This is risky to go b four because knight before rook a seven, rook eight, and black can be the one targeting. Ah, rook takes c six. Okay, naughty naughty.

Hi. That's the question.

Bam bim boom boom, bim bim bam bam.

रुक टेक्स देखे भाई, I think you should play रुक एफाई, that would be helpful.

No, it's fall for the same trick here. Take C six and so there are some tricks left but likely going to end in a draw.

Okay, let's go back to the open now.

Prague, guys, Prague is gonna.

Oh! Let's go Prague.

Okay, I have a beautiful night here. You have a beautiful night.

Hey, what about F?

You have a beautiful bishop, white. का कौन सा bishop beautiful है?

जल्दी बोलो। White का main है अमृता। Think about this. If I can get f4, push the pawn, move the king to h1, and push e5, my bishop on c2 will unleash. This is what I want.

Okay, so you have very good tactics.

Actually, there are tactics. Now let's see what example.

So if you go king h1, no, king h1 is a good Good move.

But imagine you play b3, stopping knight c4. It's time for tactics already.

Black to play. Okay, let me calculate.

Black to play. What is the move that you will play?

Wow, very good find here, Sagar. Great question, great question asked by Sagar here. How should black play in this position? And this is a tactical theme which is going to come from different openings.

Manisha Patel, Shourya Chowdhury, Achal. Oh, Bishop takes h3, guys, very good move. And you can see there's a check coming in, Knight is defending, but you take this Knight off, and after Queen takes check, and it's such a nice geometric motif. So can't play such a move. So Prag is thinking, if not b3, can I go f4? This is too loose again. Knight to c4 could happen, but Harshit bhai, even here bishop takes h3 is possible. Wow! Because if you take, take, there is a pin. In fact, you can start off with something else here, save your bishop, and then take this, and then you win.

Material. Prakshit is saying above my pay grade.

Yeah, this is not easy, of course, uh, to find Bishop takes h3, but Prag of course is going to see it, and I think he might play this calm move Bishop to e3, making sure that the knight on d4 is overprotected.

Bishop e3, guys, you have 1 second to answer this. What happens to Knight c4 attacking here and here? It's over, 1 second is over. Did anyone find it? No one could find it. Yes, Shridip.

Wow, mind it.

Saurya and Shridip.

Well done, well done.

Why too fast, guys?

By the way, I'm just going to do a quick roundup of all 4 boards in the open section right now. No, no, no, I'm not going anywhere because for everyone joining in Just for them to understand who is currently better in the live situation. On board 1, for in according to me, Prague has a great chance to score a win.

I also feel that you are you may be right, Harshad.

So I think Prague in my eye will you know be pushing. Going to board 2, I think Arjun with his last sequence of moves of taking the queen and going f6 has stabilized the position. I think this game will end in a draw. I think this will—

how do you call it?

Uh, tablas. Uh, going to Nihal's board, this is actually a board where Nihal should, uh, should already think of, uh, putting on the brakes.

Why brakes? Because think about it, no, it's 5-5. It's 5-5, but one island more.

Yeah, but the thing is that the rook on c8 is very active. Black always has the idea of going bishop to f6 and putting pressure on the knight on c3. So I think this game—

h3 and bishop, put the bishop here.

Well, h3, knight f6 back, uh, bishop.

Or maybe you start with check.

Yeah, no, this game I don't think Nihal can play for a win. This game will end in a draw. And I think Bhukesh's board, board number 4, is another board where according to me we are playing for a win. So for me, boards 1 and 4 are the ones where we need to strike, but at least one of them to strike, because both 2 and 3 are very likely going to end in a draw. So guys, I am considering the score to be around 2.5-1.5 or 3-1 for the Indian team currently.

I have a feeling this could go to 2, very likely, because Prague has objectively slight advantage, like the Maximum advantage which we are having on the board is 0.3.

Well, but look at the 17th piece on the board.

30 minutes more the clock, but, uh, 19-21 moves to be made.

Yeah, this I agree. So if Prag is able to keep the tension—

so in a way, guys, Mukesh, we have to just— we analyze Prag's game quite a bit. What are Gukesh's chances here? Because he has the open file, he has the center control, but he has doubled pawns. Do you think Gukesh has good chances?

Yes, yes. If I exchange the rook on— so let's say b5 has been played, right guys?

I'm a bit worried about kingside attack. Knight g4 attacking here. Okay. And queen coming in. King g—

let's say I go bishop here, queen f3, bishop e7, and I think that kind of Uh, that's it. That's as far as white's attack can go because black at some point can push the knight on g4 with h5, or he can just say that—

can I go b4 over here with white? If you take cb4, bishop takes b4, bishop takes b4, queen f6 check.

But that's—

but then in the end my e1 is hanging.

It's a good point, Namrata. Maybe I take, take, and I have c5. Maybe Oh, but this is hanging. Yeah, true, that's what you said.

And so even though you win this, Knight f6 was unfortunately not working earlier because Queen on c7 was protecting.

Yeah, this is— this kind of shows that Gukesh does have chances to fight for more than equality. I think he has already equalized. He has a bishop pair. He wants to play a long game.

Although Gukesh likes playing long games, it's just that last one year he wasn't doing that. But if you remember the World Championship match and all, he has the patience to grind down positions. Maybe he's going to try that today.

Absolutely. And he, he has all the reasons to. He has nothing to lose. Uh, he's playing for 2 results. So I think, uh, according to me, and Erwin is going for f4, but Guys, guys, today I think boards one and four. You know, on the we are going for the flank attack. जो बीच में के boards हैं ना हमारे, they are holding but we are going for the left wing, right wing and they are making their run towards the goalpost.

You know, but I feel fourth this board feels more natural with initiative for black than Prabh's initiative with white.

But I am considering the clock situation as well. Here Gokesh has five minutes less than his opponent. Whereas Prague has a 30-minute time advantage. Both players having some sort of an advantage, right?

So definitely a big difference.

Well, let's see, even if we can, even if we can get one win in, that's good enough. Yeah, so that is the important part. Uh, let's quickly check what's happening on the other boards apart from Indian boards because there are some बिग मैच है सीमा but Divya is in trouble or not? Oh really did her opponent find NFE four? Let's quickly check did Divya's opponent find NFE four? Oh my god she found it and Divya plays this slightly ugly move F three but opponent goes back.

But क्या खेलना चाहिए था? Wait a second it would be very difficult to make a move like take if takes C four bishop takes A one Yeah, but it's difficult to assess.

No, wait a second, there is Rook b3 at some variations, but the e7 pawn is falling, so not really. Oh wow, Knight f5! Is that a move?

No.

Now Knight to f5. Wow, and then rerouting the knight from e4 to a different square.

Yeah, that's one way, but maybe there was another way which we are not able to find.

Which means we now pull on why she could not find.

Yeah, it's a full-on tough move. Yeah.

What happened?

Ah, तुम करो। Amruta may lose, so she's not agreeing. Oh, I get it. Maybe this knight should be attacked. Yeah, it's too much. Takes, takes, push.

Oh, Prague mistake!

But okay, what's the move here? We are not able to find it.

It must be engine-like move then.

Why?

What's the move? I think Knight f5 is good.

Yeah, Knight f5, second best move. There must be something better than that. It is knight f five. Okay, so this was the move, but Claudia Coulon goes back knight f six, and this position still very complex. Let's look at the top boards completely crushing the Uzbek team. Nother back up to Sakharov. Okay, let's look at Prague first before we head over to the oh no. What?

Oh my goodness, he allowed this!

What?

Okay, this could just come—

what just happened? Can we go full screen on Prag?

Oh, Anish gets up!

Can we go full screen? What did Prag just do? I cannot believe that Prag missed Bishop takes h3. I refuse to believe this has just happened.

Oh no, no, this was completely—

and guys, look at, look at Anish there. He's walking around. Erwin, suddenly the Dutch gang is getting really excited because you see that this move and Harshit bhai, who was counting and banking on this board to get the point, I think that has gone down like in a huge way. Yeah, I mean, and we remember we just looked at this tactic. If you take Bishop takes, takes, and knight check, and you lose the queen. That's the point.

But at least you have to find an absolute best way to fight this thing.

The absolute best way is bishop takes, pawn takes, knight c6 with a fork. So you have to take, but this is better. The point here is actually unbelievable. I think maybe Prag has seen it, but he misassessed that after Queen c7 take here, this position Bishop g4. I think Harshit Bhai, maybe Prag at some point—

no, I think he missed it. I think he missed it because if he had seen it, he would have just blitzed out the move because it's the only move.

No, but he's like shocked that Anish actually went for it. Yeah, this is because maybe he thought this is not possible because he's now rechecking his lines because This what does Anish have? Guys, remember, if you take queen takes queen, bishop takes is an epic move because now this is hanging, this is hanging, and even the—

how does it make a difference with rook? Even is it a double attack on the c-file?

That's a good point, Namrata, because of this. And you are very right that c2 is hanging. So if you take the bishop, I take your bishop, and if you take my bishop, I trap your knight. That's why bishop d1 is a But if Anish has seen this, that take, take, come here, queen. He takes it, he takes it.

Prag takes it. Oh, Prag is calculated. At least that's a good news.

Of course, Amruta, he's a super GM.

Yeah, yeah, no, that's what I thought. Not that much of a mistake. Yeah, I mean, he didn't play for the best move, but this is not at all losing.

But Anish takes it back, and look at Anish there.

Why Anish looks so confident?

Anish full zoned in.

100%, Anish. We are talking about with 4 out of 4 in the first 4 games, and the 5th one, he wants to keep the score 100%, and Pragg needs to actually stop him. Now we are not even talking about white going for any winning chances.

No, wait, wait, wait, it's too soon, Amrita. Now Knight c6, Pragg has to play good or bad. Let's go! He goes for that, and Anish, look at him, he's like, he's surprised that Pragg is going for the 10 Look at Erwin Lamy behind. Look at Arjun, Nihal. Everyone's looking here. All eyes on this board.

Yeah, right now psychologically all eyes on this board.

Insane drama.

And this is what we love about team events, right? A swing on one board and that changes the dynamics on all the boards.

Oh, look who Anil is also looking over here.

Queen to c7 is the move. That Anish needs to find, and I think he has seen it. I think he has figured out this exchange sacrifice. And you know, it was a bit scary when Anish was staring at Prag right in the eye.

And oh, he's moving his rook or queen?

My queen is under attack.

Exactly. What is he doing?

He's moving the queen to c7.

Wow!

Yes.

Wow! Anish Giri is. Playing at altogether another level, guys. This is— he is playing like a monster here.

And look at Nihal and Arjun there. You can't see them right now, but they are having their eyes on that board. Look at this scene, everyone.

We can have a full screen of that.

Is hovering around the top board of this big clash, India versus Uzbekistan. India versus Netherlands, and the Dutch team suddenly has found a glimmer of hope.

Anish, think about this. What a calculation Anish has done! If knight takes b8, he is seeing bishop take bishop to g4.

How?

How did he find? There is no f3, guys. Pin है यहाँ पे। तो queen को तो हिलाना ही पड़ेगा पर कहाँ? Queen d2, right? Natural.

Yeah, okay, okay.

Queen d2 and Rook b8. And Anish has evaluated that this position is better for him where he's an exchange down. How the hell?

Very difficult assessment, man. How did I really— I agree with you.

I mean, let's imagine I play a move like this, Rook d8. Okay, I don't want to give you—

go Queen c1 there. Wait, over here. You go Queen c1. Now Rook takes b8. Now Bishop b3. Now Bishop b3.

But Amruta, here I simply keep the queen on the board because if you exchange the queens, uh, white is good, right? 100%. Then white is winning. You need the queen to attack because here, remember, the bishop can move away, the knight can come, the queen can come, and most importantly, this bishop will sit In the center, and there is no rook d1 because the bishop on g4 protects the d1 square. This is an insane exchange sacrifice. This is a high level.

This is like every ocean ten x.

Yeah, you know it reminds me of this saying of Mike Tyson: Every head must bow, every tongue must confess. Anish Giri is the top class player, guys.

Top G. He is.

He is a top class player, and Prague is. Completely astonished.

Prag is like, I didn't expect Anish to be so bold here. Yeah, like Anish is usually very careful, but somehow in this Olympiad, I think he has the— somehow the Dutch team strength or energy.

Yeah, and guys, Prag is not losing. Don't, don't misunderstand this as Prag being losing, but the, the change of evaluation is definitely in favor of Anish Giri. He went from being worse and defending to being better and attacking, and I think he's gonna be super happy with this.

Psychological effect of this is very high, I feel. Like, the thing is, because Pragg did not predict this, and when a super GM does not predict it, that does come with such an impact. Although Pragg recovers very quickly, that is one of His pros. So can you do that here?

That's very true. But Sagar, this positional sacrifice, okay? How did Anish, you know, reach this? Like, how did he break this whole thing up? The assessment, the calculation is much easier for the top players, as they have always said. It's always the assessment which is more difficult in general. So कैसे आया उधर तक? I think overall Amruta Prag did not even I mean, how is Anish able to assist it as better?

Well, Anish, basically most players would end their calculation— sorry, would end their calculation at Bishop e5, d5, Knight c6, and trust Pragg. But Anish went ahead, and this is the good form that he is in.

Yeah, that's why 4 out of 4 when you have made such a—

4 out of 4 is not a big deal for Anish because he faced weaker position. What is very important is that Anish is playing against Pragg really well.

And Pragg is, you know, according to many— even Magnus said this in interviews— that right now Pragg is in the hot form. He is the man to beat.

Yeah.

And it seems like Anish Giri is, is, you know, going to be very close to doing that.

If that happens, if we put things in objective things, one could say if Pragg landed here by will, it's around even, maybe slightly worse for Prag. But because he's pushed here out of his own will, like, you know, he's now arrived here, I would say this is a tough few moves. Let's see if Prag manages himself well.

Exactly, because he did go to Knight c6, that was his calculation. He missed maybe Queen.

I can tell you, Amruta, if basically he takes it, he takes b8, and now there's a very interesting line with bishop g4 or even rook d8 intermezzo. There are many possibilities here.

Oh, that means Anish has to consume time. And Pratikji has asked a question: if this is going to be on the other board, as a team member, how are you supposed to concentrate on your own game?

Yeah, it's a great question. And you know, I think right now as a team member, you just need to keep an eye on the top board before making a very big decision on your own board. As Gukesh comes and is trying to follow what's happening on Prag's board, look at Gukesh there. I love this view here as Gukesh, he just wants to make sure he knows exactly what's happening on this board so that he knows what he should do on his board. You need to understand that Prag is in small trouble and play accordingly. Try to take more risks on your Board. You have to. Well, you have to. You just cannot agree on draw on other boards and leave Prag alone by himself there, because then Anish is gonna feel really very confident about his chances.

So basically, Gukesh went on this kind of field trip seeing all the boards, and he's like, okay, now I'll—

when he'll come back, he'll be like, maybe we need to have a quick glance at Gukesh's game.

Look at again, he goes to Prag board. And he's like, "Bye, क्या हो रहा है? I have to assess it because guys, this is team tournament. You need two and half points. You don't need four out of four." Gukesh, as he said in his interview, he wants Team India to win, not that he reaches 27-20, 27-30. That's not his aim.

And right now, if we consider the live situation of the entire match, I had my money on Pragnananda. Well, that seems to not be going that well. And the situation is the Dutch team might even be slightly, slightly ahead in the live, uh, score prediction. It might be looking like 2.5-1.5 or 2-2 right now for the Dutch team.

Can we look at other games?

So the line which Rakshit had suggested, a good one, Bishop g4— uh, sorry, he suggested Rook d8, Queen e2. Bishop g4, knight a6 over here, and then queen c8 and queen b5.

Yeah, even this looks really good for black.

I'll see.

This looks like black is almost winning in according to me because the rook is coming into d2. I this is one of the positions where I would go bishop a7.

पैसे बंदूक लेके खड़ा है इसी Sniper bishop. This bishop on A7, Amruta.

White to play. Find the best move.

Look at this bishop.

Very difficult move. Nobody will find it.

Yeah, but this—

yeah, Amruta giving calculation exercises to everyone here, guys.

Training कर लो ठीक से। After this, we'll go and just have a look at— oh, Elesh Tripathi. This is Hunda. Tangarsh also found it. Knight b4. Too much. Okay, yeah, possible. Okay, let's go to which game you wanted to go, guys.

Well, the thing is, okay, thank you, Amruta, for bringing us to this game because we were going on a trip of the other boards, but because you said something happened in Anish and Prag, we came here.

I just sometimes I trust chat always. Sometimes it Work sometimes.

Yeah, but that was a good call. So now it's time for us to do a very quick trip around the boards. Let's first look at Nodirbek versus Richard Rapport. Nodirbek with black for Uzbekistan is better. Yeah, very strong position. I think he's what, pawn up, and, uh, Richard is not. But there are some ideas. We cannot say it's completely lost, but it's worse.

Yeah, I mean, it's +2. Plus two for someone like Abdusattarov and has more than one way to maintain that advantage is is a lot. So I think Nodirbek win win. Javakir versus Leko, I think Leko is too solid. I think it's gonna be very hard to defeat.

Amazing here.

I mean, he's too good.

He faced the whole preparation.

Time. Time. Maybe something.

No chance. No drop by Peter. Yes, too too good.

But you know Sindarov in Whole candidates because of time pressure he has managed to beat so many opponents.

Let's see if there is something that happens on this board. For now it looks equal. Then we go to the next board. There is Yakubov versus and he is also winning.

Why Yakubov क्या खेल रहा है ना crazy खेल रहा है नॉर्डरबैक actually he defeated just before this tournament he won that one Amin Tabatabai. And and he has been in very good shape, defeating Amin Tabatabai, also scoring an important win in this round. And this game is draw. So the the team of Uzbekistan is crushing, is right now crushing it.

Let's go to the U.S. one.

Fabi Vincent likely gonna end in a draw.

Oh yeah, Fabi Vincent the 19 minutes for Vincent and yesterday. Twenty one moves.

Hi Wesley, so आज फिर से कमाल कर रहा है। Yeah Wesley is is is I think for team USA the key player, the star player. Yeah and he has been so consistent.

But because he never gets jet lagged guys.

Ah okay in what way?

वो सो जाता है अच्छे से। मैं जोक मारूं मैं सो पे हूँ। So night takes C six. You can turn, turn over there and we'll do like this.

You can take a selfie.

Like this, उल्टा। With you. Just just turn it around. You turn around. You turn around.

Yeah, let's go and selfie.

Don't touch this.

Come this side, guys.

We have someone from— which country are you from? Gabon.

Gabon.

Oh, very nice. You can do a selfie camera over here.

You come stand over here.

Yeah, okay, okay. This is good.

Thank you. We'll take later again.

So Wesley is doing well and Hans Niemann is in some trouble against Frederik Svane. So there you see Wesley's better position and Hans's worse position is kind of evening out because Levon drew his game. Levon has drawn, which means that Germany-USA is much closer than what we would think. Then we have the Indian versus Uh, Dutch battle, by the way. Anish Giri played. Let's go to that board very quickly.

Anish gets up from his board and I'm a bit scared.

Yeah, he's not sitting only.

Guys, look at Anish Giri here. He's here, he's just moving around. He's excited. I think he's excited that he's playing a great game against Prag.

Yeah.

Yeah, no, of course. I mean, to defeat Prag right now is, uh, is no less than defeating the world champion because Pragnananda is, you know, the man.

He won Grand Chess Tour, he won Norway Chess. No, Grand Chess—

oh, sorry, Grand Chess Tour he won and, uh, Norway Chess also he won.

And he also won the, uh, this GC— one of the GCT events, right? Yeah, the classical one.

But I am telling you, rapid and blitz. Prague will hold this. Draw is the prediction since the beginning.

Because I'm pretty sure that Prague can hold this, but I just hope that Prague is able to draw energy and come back in this game and doesn't get bogged down.

Absolutely. You want to? Are you tired?

No.

Of chewing?

No, no.

इतना कम करोगे?

कर लूँ?

And I have been knocked out in our chewing gum race. Sagar Shah is the winner.

Thank you.

Of Neuro Energy and Focus. अरे बाय बाय। मैं तुम्हारे दांत मतलब एकदम ही तगड़े हैं तगड़े। Okay, very good.

Let's check the game of Ding Liren versus Haik Martirosyan. This is China versus Armenia and Ding is better. On board one, then Wei versus Hovhannisyan very likely. Oh, very interesting endgame. Could be a draw.

Yeah, will likely be a draw.

Then Shant Sergisyan versus Yu Yangyi also looks around even, but can anything can happen?

And oops, sorry. By Kong Xiangyu is equal as well.

Okay, so maybe Ding Liren will today score the win. He has to. Wow. Okay, that's the China game. Then we go to the next one.

So close today. Today we are for sure going to see some upsets because the matches are so close, guys. We are like— the favorites are not such big favorites in, in today's matchup. Very close encounters. Uh, we have Azerbaijan taking on Romania.

Shaq Diatch is slightly better for Diatch. Aydin Suleymanli and Lupulescu is equal. Complex. Muratli Mehmet versus Parligras is around even. Yeah. And David Gabriel Escu. So Azerbaijan, and this is also even because on board 1 Romania small edge, board 4 Mamedov Azerbaijan small edge. Yeah. So very interesting match here as well. Then we have France versus Czech Republic. And here we have MVL under some pressure against Thai Dai One. Then we have Bakro versus Et versus Navara. Right, Navara, हमेशा crazy खेलते हैं। Lagarde Maxime is better, and whoa Jules Moussard is better. So France might be the team that may reach full points. Full points right now it seems, and Uzbekistan.

Okay, let's go back to the— our Indian team and see if we have any developments, especially in the women's section. It's been a while since we were there. Uh, what's happening on Divya's board? I mean, now that we are here just to figure it out, I guess black is doing really well, right? Yeah, because black has the bishop pair.

White's bishop on f3 is blocked by its own पॉन मेरे जा शर्मा से साइड है वन वर्सेस मकसूद लू यार क्रेजी यार कौन सा गेम प्राग 2023 वेर था हाय यू रिमेम्बर ही हैड टू प्ले दिस मूव एक्सपोर्ट वाओ इंसेन यार यू रिमेम्बर देन यू आर अ ट्रू चेस फैन हाय आई फील दिव्या शुड बी एबल टू होल्ड दिस राइट बट शी नीड्स टू बी Very easily get out.

One second, one second. Why not just take this?

Rook b2.

Yeah, and then take on a7.

Yeah, but rook e2, this is not so clear. Not clear at all. I mean, I, I'm, I'm very serious. This is, this is very tough to hold with white.

Really?

Very tough. Like I do this and there is a draw. Handshake between Humpty, uh, on board 1 against, uh, Olivia. And this game has ended in a draw.

I guess a good news for Polish team because Hampi was white, also the higher rated player. Yeah, uh, India has to look for a result on some board. Maybe it's this one, but maybe not. Here I don't see it. Yeah, Harshit bhai, it looks very even.

Yeah, it looks quite equal here. Vaishali's position, which looked slightly advantageous, has, has come down.

Do you think Vaishali can go like Rook g8, g5, rook g8, put pressure on g2, maybe something there.

Yeah, but I think objectively it's equal. So, uh, board 1 draw, board 2 equal. Divya is under pressure, guys. This is not an easy position to hold.

This, like for example, even this last position, try to play a few moves which you are playing, guys.

We don't have the engine moves, so we're just gonna play and see if Divya is actually in trouble. I think she is. Finito.

All right, bye-bye.

Finito. Rook d2, rook d6, bishop.

No, rook d2. I had the idea of check and taking here. Uh, bye. It would have— if you would have made your move, it would have been finito other way.

Black can never be worse.

How can— why is black not losing? I'm—

why? Imagine, even after blundering, it's a draw.

What the hell is this? Why is it equal?

Because the white Bishop is just blocked. Come on, Bishop g5. Actually, that's the reason. But no, unclear. But one second, you played Knight d4. Why is Rook e1 and Rook fe8?

Oh, that would be quite— but ah, there's Bishop h3.

Sorry. And it's very difficult to play this with white, guys. Trust me, this position is very hard.

Okay, wait, let me make one good move. Let's say you have no threat, right?

I mean, I just want to go Rook e8 and I want to attack your king.

Niku says, back to CBI after almost 4-5 months, feeling nostalgic watching Olympiad in CBI. It really feels good and I hope we will win today. Yes, thank you so much. Send some positive comments if you can, and also follow Chess Biz India Hindi. Nikuj is streaming over there.

Yes, possible.

Yeah. तो मजेदार चल रहा है। Yes, guys, please support Niklesh by mate में है ना?

I was thinking I have bishop h3 here, but let's see if I have bishop. Oh, it's just mate. Yeah, rook e1, rook e2 and something.

Check. We have drawn one.

We we have to ओके हर्षित भाई आई अग्री है इट्स नॉट सो सिंपल प्लेयर एनालिसिस दिस वाज़ ओह आई नो व्हाट हाउ टू ड्रा दिस ये खेल दो भाई रुकी एट को सिंपल ये खेलो एंड प्ले दिस पॉन डाउन पॉन डाउन खेलो भाई रुक एंड गेम एनी बिशप एंड गेम इज़ आल्सो ड्रोन भाई गाइस दिस गेम गाइस इज़ नॉट इ Fourth, I T five. That is the drawing plan. Yeah, but although I reached it not by my brain, but by kind of eliminating it.

One Tika is winning. That would be huge.

Okay, let's go to this.

One Tika has an advantage. That is amazing.

One Tika Agarwal. Okay, we were at C five. D takes C five. Bishop C six. She found A three.

Good move. Took knight takes c5. What a decision to go into the opposite colored, uh, position here because the white bishop is quite bad looking at the pawn on e4. The black bishop hits the pawn on f2 and I think black is going to get some chances.

Should we go queen b6?

For sure, I think for sure queen to b6 here, but there is something better. Maybe b takes a3 and then queen b6.

By b takes a3, e5. 95. A bit scared of b takes a3, but it seems the best move. Wow, wow, guys, if Vantika wins today, she will get the spot on board for every single game or third.

Yeah, I don't know, she should not—

she needs— she, she's playing so well, but the thing is she has to be careful about her time.

Yes.

So this, why do you think India has chances of winning or equal?

Or I think right now it feels like we are going towards the draw.

I have a feeling that Vantika's edge looks slightly bigger than Divya's disadvantage.

But maybe, yeah, Divya is a fighter. Many times she, you know, makes a comeback.

But I think Harshitha has very less hopes on Divya Bhol. Like in terms of—

no, no, I don't. I for sure have hopes.

No, not that way. Like you are feeling that Too bad a position.

It is bad. It's the guys. This is Oin B six played, and and I think Divya's position is much harder to defend than Vantika's advantage to convert.

But also it depends on how much Coulon is you know ambitious because with black many times you don't realize that you are better.

Claudia will see other boards. She will see that Vantika is pressing.

They will not be thinking of beating India. They will be thinking.

अमरुता सब जीतने आए यहाँ पे। Poland is not come here to draw.

Claudia Coulon के सामने I M title दिख रहा है तुमको? She's an I M. Yeah. And also she's playing chess for twenty years. What else is their aim now?

To win gold. Of course, of course.

But do you think assessment is easy for this position?

I mean, it's the position plays itself for black. You have two bishops.

Let's see. But I think Divya will manage to hold this. That's.

I hope so. But guys, right now. Both our teams, both the Indian teams are in a difficult position. We need your prayers and well wishes to survive this one. Won't be easy.

Poland won against India last two Olympiads. They are here to win, says Pratichi. That is true.

Last two Olympiads, yeah. Even last year Poland beat us when we won the gold.

But to say the India online won India online Olympiad or all.

I think in Budapest also it seems like Poland beat India, and then we came back somehow.

So this is the current situation in the women's section. The men's section, Prague has made a move.

Prague has made a move to beat Prague.

Prague ने Queen d two खेला होगा। हाँ, not the best, not the best move.

But immediately taken.

Yeah, look at Anish. He's just super confident. Just look at the body language. If you can go full screen here for one second, I think the body language gives us a good understanding of what's happening on the board. Completely relaxed Anish looking at Prag, and Prag on the other hand is just, you know, unhappy yet focused. Oh, stare भी कर रहा है भाई बीच में हाँ, he's putting psychological pressure on Prag. He's looking at him in the eye, and I'm sure these are you know some ways to get an advantage. Guys, chess is not just a game on the board; it's a psychological warfare between two players.

And there's also a clock there. So, काफी elements रहते हैं. And right now, Prag seems to be under pressure because even though if you count the pieces, bishop for a bishop, knight for a knight. रुक फॉर अ रुक एंड क्वीन फॉर अ क्वीन, इट में फील लाइक व्हाइट इज एन एक्सचेंज अप, बट ब्लैक हैज एन एक्स्ट्रा पॉन। इट में नॉट अ वेरी रेलेवेंट पॉन, बट दिस बिशप विच विल सिट ऑन डी फोर परहैप्स, और जस्ट सिटिंग फ्रॉम ए सेवन इज़ द स्नाइपर बिशप। इट्स द मोस्ट इम्पोर्टेंट प sacrifice with a, with a combination of great calculation plus great assessment.

Both of the things he needed. As if you want to improve on your positional chess, you can check out a few books like Positional Chess Sacrifices. We also have Woodpecker Chess 2, Woodpecker Play.

Oh yeah, Woodpecker Method Part 2 is based on positional chess, correct?

It is all the positions from the world champion games to improve your positional understanding. And also positional decision making by Gelfand. That's a little advanced, so I'm not sure.

Talisha Agarwal says, सब लोग pray करो. That's the ninja technique of chat.

Very cool message.

सब लोग pray करो chat. Ninja technique है ओलंपियाड का। Yeah.

I'll just pick a small break करेंगे। Yes भाई हर्षित। Do you need any smoothie, hot chocolate?

कुछ करके भाई कि India वापस आ जाए भाई आज तो बहुत tension है। Yeah, both teams are under some pressure.

For sure। भाई आप भी थोड़ा pressure release करके आजाओ। मतलब toilet जाने बोल रहे हैं उसको?

जो भी pressure भाई he can go and talk to someone, he can go and go to the washroom, whatever he wants to do। साहब chewing gum काके तुम्हारे दांत सच में नहीं दुख है। No, it's exercise, right?

दांत नहीं मतलब jaw। No, I've done it many times so। I think तुम्हारे तुम्हारा jaw is stronger than your legs। आज पांच किलोमीटर भागने के बाद। Because I talk a lot, I commentate a lot। So I talk lesser than you that means?

Yes। Yeah, you commentate less। By the way guys, let's go to the other boats। Do a lot of things। Arjun Arya, Arjun Arya guys see Arjun bhai। How is he doing here on board two? So we left it off at bishop f four.

Most hilarious chess commentary ever.

Knight c two, knight d five, bishop d two, hg hg, and bishop f five hitting the knight d three, and Arjun goes rook g four. भाई कहाँ से कहाँ रुको घुमा रहा है?

Maybe like Arjun is putting pressure. I think it's not just about the equality with equal bar here. He is going to use the surprise element and it's going to continue.

But Amruta, I don't think Arjun has any chances here.

Oh, opposite colored bishop winning.

Because, but he can hold this maximum. Well, if you play b5, you are in huge trouble because after bishop f4, f5, f3, your rook is almost trapped.

Oh, be careful.

So actually Arjun has to be careful. We cannot say that Arjun is out of the danger, but I think he will be able to hold. This is our feeling. Has Nihal Sarin gotten anything here is the big question. Actually speaking, Nihal Sarin was— opening choice has backfired today.

Yeah, yeah. Somehow, when you know Arshad also mentioned, I thought first Nihal is prepared. Yeah, because if you're not prepared and you have entered that position, black is it's dangerous.

हाय ये क्या ये क्या चल रहा है?

This can even get very difficult.

Wow! Look at this.

Nihal is on the defending side.

Vanwell is attacking here. Nihal is attacking here.

This is no it it's so comfortable.

This is looking very dangerous.

We have a super chat. Do you think Vidit should have played with Prag resting? I think that would have helped. Prag isn't in top shape.

Well, I, I mean, I, I guess Prag playing was very important because he got a good position with Anish. But here— oh, maybe I see the draw, Amruta! I see the draw. Rook e2. Ah, there's no draw. He can't give a check. So take, King e2, and that's playable. It doesn't look so bad. Like bishop d4.

If the rook is exchanged, but do I have to exchange the rook? Yeah, what else I will do? No, otherwise e6 is hanging.

Okay, so this, by the way, plug has blundered or what?

No, no, no, he made a mistake. Knight f1. Can I try to think with black?

You think, uh, you look at the engine, I'll try to think.

Okay.

So knight f1. This is the move that he wants to do. He wants to block this diagonal by bringing the knight. Okay, I go rook d8.

Right move. Okay. Now what? What are you thinking?

I think queen c3 feels natural to me.

That's the at least.

He played rook d8. Anish is not even thinking for a bit.

Anish in another form. No, no, no.

He's in a And now the question is, Amruta, should I take the queen or should I keep? Generally, we have been talking about keeping the queens on the board, but in this situation, you know, both, both are good.

Wow!

So even if you take, it's good. Even if you don't take, it's good.

Guys, we have an incredible analyst joining us here. He is Grandmaster Alexander Kolovich. Alex Kolovich here. Hello. Hello, Sagar. And many of you would know him from his amazing courses or books as well, right? Books as well. Books as well. And, uh, you have come at a very good time because we have a lot of questions for you. Why do you think is Pragnananda worse here in spite of being an exchange-up? I was coming— I'm just coming from the playing hall now and I couldn't— I mean, I'm actually very surprised to see the evaluation. Because it seems like, like just unclear. But to me, for us, like, it's not only about this position. Even Anish's body language somehow feels like he feels he's better. So Anish feels it. Yeah, okay, players normally they have a feeling, yeah, about the position. They've been playing this game for a while and they have a good feeling. But for me, just looking at the position, I wasn't clear. I mean, maybe it's just something very concrete because, okay, the queen is hanging, where do you put it? Okay, you probably have to go to c1 or something.

C3.

Yeah. And now what happens? Yeah, queen takes queen. Yeah. And why? Like, I mean, queen e7 with the idea of bishop d4 is one. Yeah, yeah. Which is very good compensation. Yeah, maybe, maybe it's just very concrete. I mean, maybe it's not the position you can, you can just evaluate on general ground, but just you have to calculate and see on a move-by-move basis. Somehow things fall in, in black's— I mean, in black's favor, right? Okay. This is the position. Prag comes back. He's thinking. And by the way, we have big news. And Alex, we are looking at Indian games. Want to follow Anish? Sorry, Gukesh. Yeah, Gukesh was actually.

He's better.

He's actually. I like his position. Why do you like it? Bishops, man. Just bishops. Just bishops.

Yeah. He left it at left it over here.

Oh, C four was very interesting. Move because he doubles his pawns and makes them isolated.

Yes, but then he opens the b-file and gets a weakness over here.

Yeah, and then the c4 pawn is kind of unpleasant because it takes away some squares, you know. Yeah, d3, b3. You can't play b3 yourself because the pawn will be hanging. And you know, these Rosolimos for black, like if white doesn't have for somehow it's a very bad move. And Bukesh found c3.

That's the only move to get that one.

No, but I'm looking at tactics.

Oh, Bishop c4 is there.

What a miss by Erwin Lamy! I mean, the position— he had to move his queen, he had to move his queen away or do something else.

But the queen f3 is so against, you know, what he wanted to go was Bishop h6 so that there's no bishop to hit here.

Yeah, that also is probably playable. But the moment he played f4, Gukesh got up. Yeah, of course, played c3. Threatening the bishop, threatening the skewer. Yes, yes, yes, yes. And this might go in Gukesh's favor, this game. Yeah, yeah, very much so, very much so. No, but I think this is more in favor of Gukesh than, uh, disadvantage. Exactly, exactly. So, but the question now is, what about Van Wely versus Nihal? Because today I think Van Wely has brought his best shape forward. Are you Watching this with a 15-minute delay? Yes, because they finished. Oh, they drew? I think so. Oh, Alex with a big, uh, reveal here. Yes. Yeah, sorry to ruin the surprise, but it finished. Good relief. Yeah, yeah. So this drew. Yeah, maybe they draw now. Rook c1, Rook e1. They drew just when I was there. They was just signing the score sheet.

That means that team is very happy because they needed to score at at least half a point on 3rd and 4th board. Yeah, and they managed to do it.

Yes. So you see, how was Arjun? Arjun, Eric, I see here, if we look at his game, this was crazy game because if you look at his last move, Bishop f5, b3, he went Rook g4. And when he played here, I was pretty sure that this he'll take, but he went Rook d4. Yeah, but this is Arjun. I mean, okay, he can take, play maybe b5 and draw some opposite-colored bishop endgame pawn down. Yeah, but even though he's just— he was just looking for counterplay. This is a pawn down in a knight endgame. Knight c3 or something. I don't know how it works. Maybe it does. I don't know. Maybe some, some miss, you know. So you feel like Arjun has enough here? Yeah. So all boils down to— so Gukesh will win, guys. Arjun should hold. Nihal has already drawn, as Alex has revealed. So it falls down even to Prag's game. Prag and Anish, look at C3.

Prag manages to draw, then India wins. If Prag loses, it's a draw. And if Anish—

yeah, but Anish has been having an amazing tournament. I mean, I was watching him, following him, and I was amazed. Like, you know, recently he gave an interview, I don't know to whom, and he said, you know, I'm not very good at converting advantages. I missed so many winning position and so on. This event, he was ending up with dead drawn positions. He played one against Macedonia, yeah, against 2400-rated player. Then he— and it was a dead drawn rook endgame, okay? He won. Then it was a dead drawn endgame against Chang from Australia yesterday, like opposite-colored bishops and rooks. He won that too. And again, I think the last, the third one he won again was some sort of technical conversion stuff. And I'm thinking Okay, is he bluffing or does that only apply to people he's outrating by 100 or more rating points? I think when Anish is playing against players equal to his strength, maybe then sometimes he's missing those things more than opposition. Yeah, again, lower, for example, he's converting even equal games into win.

Exactly, exactly.

Kalabi Noob is saying someone needs to distract Anish with the tweets. What should we tweet right now?

Well, do you think if Anish is fully zoned in, he may even go Queen e7, keeping the queens on the board? And that would be really problematic because I think, Alex, the bishop— yeah, it's quite— the knight coming and the queen eventually joining in could be a huge attack. Yeah, yeah, this is like, uh, I mean, now more they look at the position, looks more like a, like you can start to understand the positional nature of it because it's the dark squares, okay? The dark-squared bishop, okay? d4 square, okay? And obviously we also have a pawn, and, and that White's light-squared bishop is kind of passive, you know? And he— and also the problem for White is that there is no obvious counterplay. I mean, the dream scenario would be to get both these pieces somehow, or to f5 or to d5, something to start the game going. But I mean, it seems like— but there's no time, right? Because if you go Knight d3, Bishop d4. Yeah, where does the queen go? Maybe, I don't know, maybe problematic. No good squares. Bishop e6 or something. Bishop goes back, Knight g4 later. Yeah, it's unpleasant again on a move-by-move basis. You know this, I mean, modern chess, you know, like you have to combine the positional and the concrete. So you see, like positionally, maybe at first sight doesn't look Too great, then you start to see the concrete, and then from the concrete you again go back to the general, and then you start to understand it a bit better, right? And by the way, news has come in. Nihal has drawn here, and maybe Alex being here, can you make the update of our scorecard? Because both are zero, so you have to press these 2 buttons. Okay, open one, open left and open right. Yes, and your scorecard is updated. Let's go. Nice, nice, nice. So it's half-half right now, and Luke Van Wely has done the job for the Dutch team to hold Nihal, in-form Nihal, to a draw with black pieces. It's a great result. What is sharp stuff happening?

Takes e5 played by Erwin Lamy.

And Bukesh must play his best chess right now. He mustn't blunder. ना ही वो ब्लंडर। I have a feeling that he'll play a game of good Olympiad.

But what is interesting over here is there are three, like you can go bishop c4 which is the best, but you could also take c takes b2.

Ah with the idea of okay one one. Okay this is something to calculate. Thankfully he has enough time and he'll calculate. I mean I have no doubt. But this is very complicated because your first instinct is to stop here. But take, take, take, and then what do you take? But also I think even simple, if you just take on e5, back, take back, just take on e5, and then like just the simplest one, the threat remains. What do you do?

Knight f6 check, bishop f6, uh, rook e6 check and queen.

तो इट्स लाइक नॉट सॉरी मिस नॉट टू कंप्लिकेटेड अनिश मेड अ मिस्टेक इट सीम्स अनिश गिरी व्हाट मिस्टेक कैन यू मेक इन दैट पोजीशन एक्सचेंज क्विज़ हाँ मेबी आई मीन बट दिस इज़ मोर इन हीज़ स्टाइल यू नो ही लाइक्स टेक्निकल स्टफ और मेबी हीज़ लुकिंग एट द मैच एंड थिंकिंग ओके मेबी He should have gotten up and seen that Erwin is losing, and then go went back and said I have to keep the queens.

But this is fine. Actually, Queen C three is still fine. It's not the best move. Queen E seven is better. So your Rook C eight is not necessary, and this is such a tough move. I mean, it's such a tough move.

We have Grandmaster power in the commentary now.

He's running.

Hi, suddenly your situation has improved a lot.

What did you do? And why, Harshipai?

You went and you did something.

Why? Just look at Yukesh's board.

Yeah, he's winning.

Okay, so Rook c8. Yeah, this is the live position.

Or we are looking at Bishop e6 was a very tough move for Anish.

This is very hard.

Yeah, he played Rook c8.

No, Rook c8 makes more sense. But now it's just like it's equal. Yeah, wow. So no, you just play 2 natural moves and you lose all the advantage.

But practically, no, it still kind of looks something like Black is doing well.

It's easier, no, for White now. Like you play, for example, Knight e3, like Rook a3, Knight— oh, Rook a3, there's b4.

I don't think that, uh, Black should have exchanged the queens, right?

Like, yeah, yeah, that's how—

yeah.

Yeah, but it's also riskier choice here. I mean, black risks nothing. There's still weaknesses to attack. It's like safe. Bye, everyone is saying Arshid. What did you do, Arshid?

I was just praying, praying, and we got it. We are getting it because Mukesh is doing the magic on board four.

Totalmente. ओ बिश्वसी फोर ही बम्बा हुकी हुकी है बीस इन द ज़ोन यार कैलकुलेशन मोड ही लाइक माय माय वर्ल्ड चैम्पियनशिप स्टार्टिंग सूट लेट्स अस आल्सो अंडरस्टैंड व्हाई इट्स विनिंग ओके इट टेक्स डी सिक्स टेक द क्वीन टेक द क्वीन नॉट द चेक दैट वुड बी अ डिजास्टर बाय द वे या या क्वीन Yes, and I guess he missed c takes d2, right?

Because probably he missed c3 over here.

Ah, this intermezzo.

No, I mean, we don't know. Maybe he saw it, but maybe he missed something in the— he planned something against it, but then missed something later on. This is maybe here, something in the, in the very—

and Gukesh caught him. Yeah, yeah, he caught him in the calculation.

Yes, yes.

So this gives a lot of psychological relief to, you know, other people. Nihal has drawn the game, and Arjun Has to be careful. We were looking at his game.

Yeah, he's going. Oh no!

Wow! This is going for advantage because I think over here, rook g four, knight e three was played.

Okay, rook d four, knight c four. So one thing you don't want as white is to exchange. As black is to give up your knight on d five for the bishop.

Which was which is what happened.

And that's exactly what happened.

But this is still perfect.

From like, why is bishop e6? Uh, the engine is saying that it is much better. No, that's also changing.

But it's harder to make such a move. Yeah, you want to keep the file open.

So is this ending so better? Like, okay, you are a pawn up.

I'm not sure, I'm not sure. Like, it's like, okay, obviously white is better pawn up, but it's not like given that it's like winning or whatever.

It's still tense. Yeah, because on board 4, Gukesh is winning. Let's say board 1, Anish slightly better. And your Van Forest is also slightly better.

Yeah, so, but it's like 2 slightly better can easily be 2 draws.

And then true, true, that's true.

Slightly better means nothing. Slightly better normally it's a draw. Yeah, but here, okay, the problem is that he will likely play for a very long time.

Oh wow, by the way, and then, then like long game, anything can happen. And Jordan should not move the a-rook. From, uh, a1 to c1 because that weakens the a2 pawn. Yeah, instead rook ec1 is apparently—

it's very obvious because you also want to go a4 in the future, right? So you want to keep the rook on a1, but this is also double-edged.

I mean, does black want to go b4 and fix that pawn?

Yeah, true.

We don't know because it also weakens a bit of his structure because the c4 square, c6 pawn becomes kind of—

and Hans lost. Really? Frederick Swana is completely winning against Hans, and the US team is in grave danger of losing.

Yeah, US is losing. That's what they were saying. Wesley was better, but, but now he's—

I think he's gonna hold. Hans is losing, and, uh, and, and Frederick Swane, if you remember, defeated Gukesh in the last Olympiad. All right, he is someone who can make these big upsets.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Oh, so Germany is doing—

oh my God, if f5, there is Knight c5! Bomba! What a move! Yeah, bomba!

Pawns are rolling.

Yeah, Amruta, crazy, crazy!

Look at this, if Black plays f5, and I think this is what Hans missed, boom!

Yeah, yeah.

If you take to just show it, the rocket bishop opens up.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. By Hans Niemann is going to lose.

USA is going to lose.

Because how? They were winning in one board.

No, no, no. Fabi drew. Aronian drew.

Hans is losing.

But Wesley was better. But he's not on now. It's like a fortress.

Yeah, yeah. It's very equal. So coming.

Yeah, yeah.

This game looks like a fortress.

But I Actually, Wesley still has a queen. I mean, he could try, but no, it's the fortress, I think.

Oh my God, so US is losing.

Yes.

And Uzbekistan, just to give you a quick look, is still clearly better. Yeah, it's going towards the draw. Yeah, uh, is losing, is losing.

Uzbek is looking very strong.

They're losing. Super strong, super strong. Oh my God, look who we have cruising.

Yeah, and, uh, and we have a guest actually.

Okay, okay, thanks guys, thanks so much. Alex, thank you so much for being here. And also guys, do check out Alex's courses on Chessable and his books. Amazing work that he does. And, uh, well, we all always are happy to have you here. Likewise, likewise. Yeah, thanks. Thanks. Good luck. Thank you. And joining us is one of the players whom India was facing today. Let's give a big round of applause to GM Luke Manuel. He is here. Hello, you can join us. And Luke is not just, you know, uh, here we know him so, so well now because he's the coach of the Triveni Continental Kings, but here he's Playing on board three, Luke. A very good game today. A very smooth draw with Nihal. Yes. Well, first of all, I was not sure if I should wear the suit or my Triveni outfit. Triveni was that time fine, yeah? Because our manager, yeah, one thousand percent you should do this, you know. But but I was not sure. I mean, of course, to create some. Confusion, and you know, I wasn't sure, you know, if it was really appropriate to do so. But you know, but yeah, I had a few, uh, I mean, it's still, you know, with me. Yeah, but today, uh, you know, if we can quickly go to his game, uh, you played the Najdorf today, and I think Nihal played f4. Did you predict it, or was it, uh— no, no, no, not at all. No, I, I was thinking You know that he had one game with, I think, Bonchenko that he put the pawn on f3, you know, and I think it's some tournament in, I think it was Uzbekistan, you know, with e4, Knight c3, f3, you know. But no, I didn't expect him to play this move f4. And you know, this move e5, I think I, I think for the, probably for the last time I played is like in the '90s, you know. So I was telling the chat that Luke, you were the top player in '90s, 2000s. It's been such a long time, yes, and you are still playing so well. Well, okay, I mean, uh, I mean, my results are up and down, yeah, so, but of course, you know, back in the days I was playing better, but I'm still kind of, you know, hanging in there, you know, and creating some fights, you know, but let's say against Nihal, I have to say, he is probably an opponent that would not hurt me so badly in the openings, you know. And let's say if I would play some other guys like Arjun or Prag, you know, okay, they would— they love opening preparation more than me. Yeah, I think so.

Guys, I want to interrupt for a moment because something huge has happened in Arjun's game. Ah, okay, I don't know why it is.

Actually, Arjun got a bad position and then came back. Can we just look at the last?

Yeah, so actually here, Rook e c one was the move that should have been played by white, and that kept an advantage. But Jordan goes for Rook e d one.

Why is it so? Ah, the rook on a one has to move.

Look, but this position still looks very dangerous, right, for Arjun, and I mean very good chances for Jordan.

But maybe rook a And if rook d two, this might have been missed.

So rook d two, b five.

Yeah. And then bishop e one. Maybe we can force the you know the.

Ah, you win back the pawn.

But it's hard to do that.

Then bishop c two or what?

No, bishop c is covered.

After bishop f seven. Yeah. Got it. So you winning back the pawn. That's why that was a miss. So Arjun is recovering the pawn. Going back to your game, which you were showing. Yeah.

Well, you know, in general, you know, I. Were you surprised that he played Queen D four to Queen B six check? Like this was a move we didn't understand. I yes. Well, I prepared this line like a few a few weeks ago for the national championship. Of course, I. Spotting everything, but that's my age. That's, that's normally the way it goes, you know. Um, but, uh, I thought that instead of Bishop takes f4, I thought King h1 was the theory.

But okay, so then he—

of course I was a bit worried that he would sacrifice his b2 pawn.

Yeah, with King h1, and, and God knows what's going to happen.

Yeah, this is what we thought he would play. Yeah, crazy game. Yeah, but I thought, okay, I will play very quickly so that I'm very confident. Yeah, kind of, you know, bluffing a little bit, you know.

And that's why he played Queen d4, maybe.

Okay, then, okay, then you were happy. And then you got this Knight e5, was a very nice move. I thought like it was somehow— and then Bishop e6, very important. Yes, yes, yes. So these 2 moves, then I think you are just equalized without any problems. Yeah, actually I, I felt like maybe I can try a little bit, but probably it's just equal, you know. And yeah, here it did feel that you are getting something. Yeah, I think, yeah, but he played also, you know, precisely. And yeah, well, okay, you know, amazing result for Luke. But Luke, I mean, just not— I mean, for you it was great because Nihal was in good form, plus he had white pieces, and somehow he has been the striker for India, and you kind of neutralized him without any chances. That's why I felt like today, going into this match, we felt like Nihal could be the one who could strike maybe, and you just gave no chance. Actually, we were thinking, to be honest, that, uh, they would put Vidit with black against Lamine to be okay. And, and, and Gukesh with white will be even more dangerous, you know. Yeah, oh, that's interesting, you know, that, uh, because Nihal is a good player, but openings is not his strongest point, so he will— you will lose actually the white color on board 3. So although, yeah, I mean, he's in good form, but yeah, uh, that's why I thought like, um, that's great insights coming from you. So look, just to tell us about the match, do you feel like, uh, for example, here Anish today played incredibly well? It feels like he sacrificed on h3, this exchange sacrifice. I thought that, that he was better, and it looked very dangerous for, for Prag, you know, typical, uh, position that, you know, your dark squares, it looks so dangerous, you know, for For black, for white, sorry, and well, I don't know what was going on, but I felt like, okay, Erwin Lamy is in trouble against Gukesh, I thought, okay, either Jordan or Anish should strike back, yeah, but okay, in worst case, yeah, we lose 2.5, 1.5, I think. But it could also be that either Jordan or Anish could strike and It would be two-two or even Dutch could win if Anish and Jordan both strike. Yeah, sure. Yeah. And that would be but so a very intense match. Yeah. Between Netherlands and India. Yeah, that's how it should be. No, it shouldn't give you easy ride.

No, he's played beautiful. But this one was very beautiful. What Prag found? Bishop B three and Bishop D five activating his pieces.

That is normally a good idea in chess. Yeah. Okay, uh, look, last question because you, you had a long game, uh, I mean an intense game. How has it been to switch from the role of a coach in the GCL to now playing in this high-pressure, high-intensity tournament? Well, actually, uh, I felt like to be the coach in Triveni it was much more draining, really, yeah, because, you know, you, you're watching 6 games at the same time, it's like 6 babies you're taking care of, you know, and they're running around and doing all this crazy stuff, you know, so, and it's just killing you, it's just 1 hour per day, you know, but, you know, actually I wanted to do some work for, you know, preparation work for, for, for the Olympia, well, I was totally exhausted, yeah, I was totally exhausted, man, Well, apart from, you know, I had to manage, you know, the guys because, you know, team was not doing so well, you know, so we had to really try to get back, you know. So here it's like walking the park almost, you know, one game a day, one game a day, and yeah, long time control, you can take some coffee and take it easy, you know. Wow, that's so interesting insights here. Thank you, Luke, for joining us. Yeah. And also for, you know, entertaining us with some great gifts. Yeah, my pleasure. And don't be too harsh on guys like Mukesh because I think he's a good guy and, you know, and he deserves some, you know, some more, you know, some support. Is this— you are telling to the chat who are watching this? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So I mean, uh, uh, because okay, we're all looking forward to a good match, you know, against Sindarov, you know, and of course we all understand that, uh, Sindarov is, is favored, but in the match it's never easy, that's for sure. And, and Lukasz has already the match experience, he knows what kind of tension there is, you know, so I can tell you guys it will be, it will be a good match anyway. But okay, of course, Sinderov is a favorite. Yeah, thank you, Luke, for your time, and thank you for visiting us. Sure, my pleasure. Okay guys, this is Grandmaster Luke Van Wely joining us right after his game versus Nihal, and very, very solid draw actually. Yeah, very solid draw.

And I think, uh, uh, you know, Nihal would definitely be a bit upset, but I loved his insights. How he mentioned that they were expecting Gukesh to take board three and Vidit on board four, but finally you know.

That kind of Indian team then managed to trick Netherlands because of the board order also. But everybody is like double look.

Yeah, of course.

And wow, that's so sweet.

You mentioned to show some support for Gukesh. I mean that I think that was on point. You know guys, we are being sometimes he we forget he's nineteen years of age. He is the world champion twenty now. But is the current world champion.

Actually, भाई पुट का age कम करते हैं बाकि लोगों को नहीं इधर भी कम करते हैं। हाँ ये लोगों का भी कम करते हैं। उनको सबको young बनाते हो। Yeah everyone is young.

भाई what is my age? Thirty seven. अब भाई मेरे को पुट्टा बना दिया भाई आपने मैं thirty six हुआ है। मैं लेके आता हूँ। नीचे नीचे। Okay so Gukesh is doing it.

Okay I'm more I'm more focused on boards one and two right now.

Actually Arjun's game which has Quietly been progressing, guys. Somewhere Arjun did did face some difficulties.

Yeah, Rook D1 moment, babe. Can we go one more time and can we look at it? Because while look was here, we could not look at it.

Yeah. Why? Incredible play of words by Amruta. Knight C4, B5, Bishop E 3, and Jordan also played really well.

He was under control, and I think after takes, Bishop g6, Rook ec1 would have been a very dangerous move for Arjun.

This would have been— and a4 coming up. Yeah, this could have been like almost very difficult game.

Let's understand it. Obviously Jordan saw Rook ec1 because it's a threat, so he rejected it for some reason. So why did he reject it?

This taking out, taking.

Oh no no no no wait! He saw something else.

But I'm not a rook d two. I can just play king f one defending here, and then if you go here, I have g four. So you don't have play, and I'm going a four next.

Okay, then maybe instead of rook d two, he would have seen simply rook c eight. Let's say.

I don't know what he saw. Yeah, rook c eight, and then a four.

Now d two is the threat again.

Okay. Yeah, but this position somehow looks. Very pleasant for white, and he missed it. He played Rook e d one.

You do it. Do me. Rook exchange करके I anyway have a passer, and that's what.

But I think he must have missed that the fact that here there is Bishop f seven, and after that Knight c two c five. Somehow black's counterplay is coming too quickly.

Yeah. Yeah, exactly. So then it's a crazy twist because Arjun. We were always considering like it could end in a draw, though he faced trouble. Gukesh is winning, which we were kind of considering. And Prague, we were like, right now let's go and have a look at that, guys.

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Okay, go to Prague's board because he has made a move.

So by ये अपन बोल सकते हैं कि अर्जुन will hold likely hold very likely. Yeah, like highly likely.

Very likely, yes. He is gonna hold this, and I think this then becomes the critical game because Prague's position has improved a lot.

Oh my God!

But you know, this could turn in any way because one is it could turn in our favor. I know. Exchange up. The other one is like the compensation serves well for Anish.

Knight e three, and Anish went back, and rook takes c three. And now the question is, will Anish take with the bishop? Or the pawn.

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The king has to get out over here on e2. I'm very even surprised that how is, how is white even just minus 1.5? Because yeah, the king looks very weak. Oh, this assessment is very, uh, after f5.

Correct.

Yeah, best move.

I, I do have a bit of worry here because if you look at the white pieces, they have good squares now. Knight is coming to f3, knight on g4, bishop on c3.

It's looking quite okay, but the king is very weak. We will go more deep over here, but for now we have got another help. His contribution, Sagar, um, could you just read it?

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Is winning everyone saying?

Is that holding? Yeah, that's a big hold.

Why do you think Divya did my idea?

Oh, she did that!

Oh, she did this! Oh wow! Wow wow wow!

Oh wow wow wow!

सेम प्लान। वेल फाउंड सागर भाई और मेरी टाइम दिव्या एस वेल फॉर फाइंडिंग दिस बिकॉज़ दिस इज एन इम्पोर्टेंट होल्ड। बट आई मस्त से इट वाज बिकॉज़ ऑफ हर्षित भाई के इंसाइड्स दैट वी अंडरस्टूड दैट द पोजीशन वाज टफ एंड दिव्या प्लेड रियली वेल। शी डिड अमेजिंगली वेल टू होल Is under time pressure.

This is a great news.

A four. Why Vaishali is weaving her magic? But actually speaking, the rook on E seven is attacking the F seven pawn. So it is getting a bit intense here. I think Amruta after knight D two, rook G eight attacking here, giving up this pawn could be an idea.

Yeah, I think that's a good idea. But I am. I think the biggest advantage for Vaishali right now is that she's playing fast, and look at how focused she is. She's not getting up from the chair at all. She wants to use this time advantage to her favor.

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Thank you.

And this is happening. Knight d2 played, and Vaishali can play the move rook dg8 here.

And should we go and check what's happening to Vantika? Because she was better in her game, but now it seems like white white has solved most of her problems. And Harshit bhai, I have a feeling that this game might end in equality because of opposite colored bishops.

And ये अभी हम Chinese strategy कर रहे हैं सब game draw फटाफट Because Vaishali has gotten better and Vaishali needs to win.

Bye, Vaishali. So in women's section, all eyes earlier were on Vantika, but now on Vaishali. The V has turned from Vantika's V to Vaishali's V. And V for victory as well. Let's go, let's go, guys!

Whichever way. Bharat Goel, Sagar Energy, Harshit, Wise, Amruta Screams, lovely. Thank you, bye.

Let's go.

Thank you so much. And meanwhile, my, uh, big worry here is whether Gukesh will convert this or not. I've been told not to worry about this because it seems he will.

And what an upset we're gonna have today as Team USA in the open section is going to go down to Germany. Oh my God, that's a big upset that we are gonna see as Hans Niemann is losing his game. And the rest of the games drew.

But USA was having some trouble in between also, like it hasn't been a smooth ride for them. Uh, yeah, yeah.

I think Wesley was constantly saying in his interviews as well that our team is not doing well, our team is not doing well. So clearly something was not going right for them, and actually today they might lose their match to Germany.

Yeah, they, they are under watch too by Germany.

Might be thinking this is their chance to win a gold actually, with Vincent being really good and, uh, Bluebaum candidate, and Swana and Donchenko. It's a crazy team.

And guys, look at how the tides have turned on, on Prague's board. Yeah, and you know, we, we appreciated Anish's exchange sacrifice a lot, and I think we should also, you know, highlight and critique the move which was According to me, a big mistake, and that was Queen takes c3. Exactly right on the point. I think it makes no sense for Black.

You know what happened? Yeah, I saw it on camera. The thing is, Anish, in this position, he took the queen and then got up and went and saw Erwin's board. He should have actually seen it before taking, and then he would have very likely played Queen e7.

Yeah, but I think it's not even about the, uh, The other point was Queen e7. You just have a risk-free advantage.

No, he thought Queen c3 is risk-free advantage because it's very difficult actually.

No, but we are underestimating the assessment.

But Anish thought Queen c3 is a risk-free push.

Correct, I also think so.

But, but, uh, somehow Pragg was very quick with this Bishop b3, Bishop d5.

This was very difficult, I felt, because look, firstly it feels like if you take your d5, he takes d5 Suddenly you are very happy. Your rook is opening up over here. If you go bishop d4, wanting to sit like you always wanted to, let's say you still go rook c1, b4, something like this. Yeah, what is changed?

Like it's very similar to the game actually, Amruda. If you look at the game, it progressed this way: rook c1, knight e3, and somehow everything feels like, for example, now he's attacking a six.

Now he gets back the bishop over there and now makes the space for knight to go to d5.

Actually, Prag, your prediction may come true.

Knight to d5 was very good.

Yeah, yeah, and that would just be insane if, uh, Prag and, uh, Gukesh both win. That will be insane, bhai.

Don't you feel Anish is looking a bit worried right now?

He looks a bit nervous. And just, I want to take you quickly to Gukesh's board because he has 7 and a half minutes and we want to make sure that he wins, right? Because that's the only board that we are trying for a win. And going there very quickly, King to e2, important move for Gukesh. Now 6 minutes on his board and 12 moves to be made. So like, yeah, it's getting very close.

Harshik bhai, always super focused with a lot of energy. Rook a4, bhai, I'm telling you Mukesh's position not so simple. Look at that, Rook a4 he has played. And what is the problem?

You are threatening Rook takes c4.

Yeah, just he'll defend Knight f2.

Exactly. The thing is, the other knight, I will come try to come over here, or Knight f3. Yeah, and my queen is going to come over here. Yeah, my knight is going to come over here.

Let's play one move time. Yeah, this is a good move. You are now threatening Knight c4 maybe. Uh, can I stop it with Queen c5? Oh, I lose.

I'm very happy. No, no, I was like, okay, both of them.

There is— there are moves. Knight to f2 has happened on the board.

Erwin Lamy is using all his experience to play quickly and put pressure on Gukesh. Also, Gukesh knows that his game is the critical one. You can't bank on Prag to be winning that position. It could end in a draw.

Yeah.

So if India wants to win, Gukesh has to strike.

Yep. Okay, over here, what do you play? Like, my threat is Queen b5. Let's say if you just ignore and continue what you wanted to do, then Queen b5 is coming very powerful.

Yeah.

And if you—

no, I can't ignore. I can't ignore.

You're always losing there.

I can't ignore. I have to do something about your idea here. Maybe I should go knight to f3, knight c4.

Now, first check, check, check. Queen d3.

Yeah, I want to play queen d3.

Yeah, queen d3 is always a blunder. Oh my, because now I take the knight, and if you take with this knight, it's an illusion.

Okay, but Gukesh's time, Amruta, 5 minutes 30 seconds. He needs to make 11 moves. Erwin Lamy gets up From his chair. Look at the pressure here. If you look at this entire scene here, you will see that we have Erwin looking at the board of Jordan and Anish. Gukesh completely focused. Prag is not to be seen. No, he's there.

He's walking around.

Everyone is keeping an eye on their teammates' boards, and Prag walking. And guys, let me assure you He is not relaxing. He is still calculating the position on his board, putting pressure on Anish's clock. What an intense scene here as the captains get up from their chairs too. This is not just about the position, also about, uh, the pressure.

And we have 10,000 people watching this, guys. All those who are tuning in right now, A huge update for you. The score is half-half in both the matches. And Amruta, yes.

Yeah, Rakshas Singh, Anish only want to keep equality. Wait, we have to go over there.

And yes, four minutes.

Very quickly.

Let's go there. As people are also supporting through help chats. Thank you so much, everyone. Bishop Barose, one zero one. That's a nice name.

Bishop Barose, भाई. Bishop Barose, प्राक को जीतना है। A six के bishop के Barose.

F five is the only super Anish.

Hi, F five is not easy.

And if he doesn't do it, man, guys, look at suddenly how the expressions of Anish have changed.

And also Prag is so confident now suddenly.

Exactly.

Hi, क्या क्या पलटा है ना सब कुछ?

Yeah, just a few moments back you could have seen that Anish was the one who was very comfortable. Suddenly is the one under pressure.

Queen says I am hooked to this stream, so dinner can't be. Cook today. I ordered a pizza.

Are they crazy, bhai? Nine nine. It would be even tastier if India wins in both sections.

Ten thousand people are watching. Uvaswan member for sixty nine months, pillar of Indian chess, says YoYo Sagarbhai and Amrita and Puneetha Raja. How is India doing this Olympia? I'm not following closely this time.

क्या कर रहे हो Uvaswan?

The Olympia format, bhai. अभी नहीं, अभी बहुत ज़्यादा you know intense चल रहा है.

But बताते हैं the format is eleven rounds. This is the fifth round.

हर्षित भाई प्लीज सो फार वे आर डूइंग रियली गुड वे हैव वॉन ऑल फोर ऑफ़ आर मैचेस बोथ इन ओपन एंड विमेन्स बट दिस इज़ द क्रिटिकल मैच वी आर अंडर प्रेशर इन ओह ही सो बी नॉट प्लेइंग एफआई ही नॉट लीग वेट बिशप सी सिक्स ही ब्लंडर्स नो नो इट्स नॉट अ ब्लंडर वी कैन स्मайл ओवर द Prague advantage.

So yes, as Harshit has been mentioning, there's a very good chance for Prague to convert this. Yeah, and Anish is down to four minutes. Yeah, six moves to be made. That is huge. And Bhukesh has also made a move.

So just to give context of this match, Rakshit bhai, if you are watching this, the bars are somehow showing the result or not? अच्छा draw दिखा रहे हैं. But bhai, वो result थोड़ा ठीक से नहीं दिख रहा है. It can be shown a little bit. जहाँ पे भी गेम खत्म हो रहा है, that could be centrally shown. That may be a small change because the design looks really amazing. And thank you so much, Rakshit and Arya, for designing this. But I think when the results are coming, the design is a bit ऐसे लग रहा है गेम अभी भी चल रहा है। Yeah, this is a real test.

I like that comment. This is a real test for the world champion.

For Anish offered a draw. Did you notice, guys? ऐसे बोल रहा है कोई. Did Anish offer a draw, guys? If you can just go back. In the stream and check. I would be very surprised.

I will not take at all. Hundred percent no draw.

Right? You would take or not?

I would. I mean, I would understand that the you know the the tides have turned and I would keep the game going because generally when there is such a big you know swing swing in terms of your opponent's body language, you could feel that he's under pressure.

Oh, everyone is saying yes, yes, yes.

Yes, he offered and Prag is saying, what do you think guys? Is Prag going to accept a draw? There is a lot of pressure, so even that should be okay. But Jaime Nuez says, why CBI clips? No video, bhai. अरे हाँ, editor को देंगी हो गया है। So we'll try to put some raw videos.

Oh, he offered a draw!

Oh my God, he has offered a draw!

Nice timing, yeah.

And Arjun drew his game.

Arjun drew?

Yes.

That's huge.

Arjun drew a great result for Arjun.

Actually, Prag, 15 minutes में he should get up and he should go and check Gukesh's board because Gukesh का game में पता नहीं है अभी वो जीतेगा कि नहीं। I mean it's better. So I think Prag should keep going or not?

What a situation here!

But it's a difficult like it also feels scary for your team if you lose.

The thing is if Prag accepts the draw, Gukesh would need to win in order for India to win the match. Arjun drew, the score is 1-1. Good result by Arjun, he was under pressure. 2 boards remaining and look at Prag there, he is keeping an eye on Gukesh's board. If you go full screen there, Prag is eyeing on Gukesh's board. I love this, I love maturity shown here by Prag in the team event. 12,000 of you watching, will Prag take the draw? Do like the stream. This is the key moment in the match.

Some people think he should not accept.

Guys, we should make a poll here in our chat. Should Prag accept a draw or not?

No draw, sir. That's my feeling. No draw. Because he looked at the score sheet, looked at how far away he is from move number 40 to reach the time control, and that is a sign of a player who wants to Play, guys. I think Prague is going to play. Are you with me?

I've started the poll. Let's go, guys. The poll is live. You can actually vote. We would love to know.

One giveaway.

Yes.

And uploaded proof, but what confirmation? Go ahead.

We will give you the confirmation. It's done. We will send you.

No draw. And look at this.

If anything is needed, we'll inform you.

Sheena talking with Arjun there, saying that you Did a nice job there on your board, drawing the game. Arjun doesn't want to leave just yet. He wants to draw.

Tell me, even if Prag accepts a draw, I think it's completely understood with the whole game which was happening with so much difficult scenario for him.

He was in a no, but Amruta, it's not about that. It's about winning the match. खुद का गेम नहीं है ये. You have to see what is happening with the team.

He needs to assess this very correctly.

First, he has to assess his position.

Yes.

Then he has To go and check maybe Gukesh's position. I am pretty sure Prag won't take a draw.

Go and check Gukesh's position. He will say okay at least Gukesh is not.

Oh, Gukesh का queen किधर queen trade हो गया?

Queen d seven आया। Oh queen got traded.

This is big upgrade for Gukesh.

For sure.

I think Prag should maybe take a draw.

Yeah.

King to d three and this is a key moment now. Key moment for Gukesh with four minutes on the clock. Prague doesn't want to take the decision yet.

Knight takes c3, play c5 and maybe threaten c4, put the knight on d4.

You have good, good one.

You have good control.

The hype is real, guys. 13,000 of you watching. India is getting closer and closer to defeating the Dutch team. Prag has 12 and a half minutes to make a decision, and he plays it.

What a champ!

What a champ! What a champ! Bishop to d3.

I think this is also for surprise Anish because he might have expected a draw.

Why? We had 82% people who said no draw, 18% said yes, and guys, Prag has listened to you. Keep going. He has taken a draw— not a draw, he has taken the decision to play on.

A decision which will be remembered maybe forever.

This is for sure a decision.

भाई क्या confidence रहेगा ना खुद में? क्योंकि you know I have heard sometimes like Gary Kasparov has spoken about it when the game has not gone your way and when it comes to a draw many people take it because there's so much of emotional upheavals. But here Prague has readjusted itself to a new situation quickly.

Yeah for sure you have to be in the present moment and in the Present moment, I think Prag made the best decision with the information he had because Bukesh looked better, but it was not clear. If my opponent Anish is offering me a draw, he must be feeling uncomfortable. With 4 minutes, I think Prag made the nice decision here.

Guys, we have more results on the women's team. It seems like Vantika has drawn her game. Okay. Oh, that is a very interesting update that we have. Vantika 1-1 now. टीम इंडिया इन द विमेन सेक्शन, सो जस्ट ऐडिंग हाफ ऑफ पॉइंट्स, व्हिच मींस दैट टू गेम्स आर गोइंग, वैशाली एंड दिव्या देशमुख। दिव्या का गेम शुड एंड इन अ ड्रॉव, दिव्या हैज़ टू होल्ड दिस, इट्स अ बिट कॉम्प्लेक्स, बट वैशाली कैन शी विन इट?

वैशाली इज़ गोइंग टू to queen c2 by checkmate है। The queen on a6 is just sidelined from the game. So I think rook e8 followed by rook e2 is going to be Vaishali's idea in this position. And Vaishali has to win because Divya is defending. So we have a very similar position in both sections.

Yeah. And both places Prague and Vaishali under pressure मतलब सोचो कि Nagalakshmi their parents like how stressed it would be.

Well, I think Nagalakshmi is one of the coolest chess parents, so they have learned how to take it, you know, in their stride. Meanwhile, Anu 3170 for you. Thank you.

Let's go, let's go!

Yeah, because I think it kind of shook Anish that Prag declined a draw. Like, how do you ignore the pawn on a6?

Even f5 actually is very tough, very tough.

And guys, we are gonna have a three-one victory.

But explain, explain how to win here. What is the move?

Bishop e four and knight c four maybe.

Bishop e four, e four.

Maro, because this looks very direct. Takes knight c four. Yeah, I think this is what a beautiful idea actually by because now you see the bishop moves e five is hanging and instead if you play C two. Can we look? Yeah, B. C two. नहीं इधर नहीं। इधर इधर। If you take the bishop, it's queening.

Correct.

But we have something else here. Knight D six check and take it.

Take the bishop. And guys, what a nice last few moves we've had for the Indian team. Suddenly, from a situation of being worried to even draw the match. We are gonna win with a thumping margin three one.

भाई ऐसे लगता है वाह!

Three is Indian at heart, that's true absolutely.

But you know they want to fight for the No way by the way true. Gukesh also found C five.

Not in that way.

Gukesh found the best move in the position pawn to C five. That's good news for us there.

Oh good move. Yeah. And भाई Gukesh पूरा focus अपने game पे है। He is like भाई अभी मेरे को प्रक्का game नहीं देखना है। मैं जीतूँगा तो हो जाएगा। I don't need to worry about Prague.

What a what a match, guys!

Man, Harshit bhai is really Nostradamus, man.

हाँ भाई, Harshit bhai मैं इधर नहीं आपसे पंगा नहीं ले रहा हूँ भाई। क्या कर रहे हो आप?

Every time his predictions are going right.

Boards one and four, guys.

Oh nice move now for Mukesh. If he finds C four deflection, look at this such a cute little variation. Knight takes C three की Take C3 and then यहाँ पे check देके rook G3 आके इसको मारना है। Yeah, he he doesn't find it though he comes back with his rook to A8.

Then Nayana Wa, अरे Nayana Wa melted joy chocolates says ice runs in Prag's veins. So proud of him. Absolutely.

What a ice cold decision by him to decline the draw and going back to his board. He is actually on the verge of winning. Let's see if he has found this idea that we were mentioning.

And guys, what a quick update by Rakshit Bhai and his team to get us the updated results on the screen once the game ends. Thank you, Rakshit Bhai and Chess Hero team, for making this happen.

Yeah, you know what, Rukesh has only 3 minutes and he has to make 7 So still he has to be careful that this doesn't equalize.

No, this is very— but you know what, we now have the cushion of Pragnananda also winning.

Exactly.

And this one seems like more direct somehow.

Let's, let's wait on this board. 8 minutes for Prag. Can he find the move? Can he take the knight on e4? Well, according to the machines, rook a1 is winning as well. Hard for us to comprehend how, but you know, if there is one guy who can Find the best move. That's Prague, and he takes the knight on e4, and he's going knight c4.

Bye, Harshit bhai. जो भी बोल रहे हैं आज सच हो रहा है। Guys, if you want to know your future, please message Harshit bhai is here.

Guys, 13,000 of you watching. We need your love and support, not just now, forever in the rest of this tournament right now because forever in my life. In the rest of this tournament, bhai, for us to defend this medal.

Oh, but Look at this. Maybe Anish finds this defense, knight e five and king d eight, and somehow these two bishops and the pawn can make it tricky tricky.

This is not so easy, no?

Oh, bishop to d five is fantastic.

It's a little bit tricky tricky here, and we quickly go to Gukesh and see if there is any man. You know, even though we are winning, last moment the tension to है सागर भाई because third minute पचा गुकेश के पास प्यार में यही है। You cannot be sure what is going to happen till the very end, and even though it's classical chess, the excitement is through the roof. Guys, in the open, we are surely going to win. It feels right now, but in the women's section, yeah, it's not at all sure. It's all on Vaishali, and Vaishali is pressing.

Well, she is pressing.

Maybe not anymore.

The queens have gotten. Changed. And after Rook takes f4, Rook e8, c4, a great find by Malzaskaya. Man, this is a neck-to-neck fight.

Actually, her opponent is super strong. Yes, and she has been a prodigy. In fact, the book was there because she was expected to become the world champion in a way.

Time, time, time. Yes, it's all about the last few moves here.

And why Vaishali is even a pawn down? Okay, uh, sorry, Vaishali has to be मुझे नहीं लगता है वैशाली माइट विन दिस। या वी हैव टू बी वेरी केयरफुल दैट वैशाली डज़न ब्लंडर हर वे हियर। टू टू विल बी अ गुड रिजल्ट राइट नाउ। एट दिस पॉइंट इट डज़ फील लाइक दैट। बाय द वे गुकेश इज़ ओनली वन मिनट और व्हाट?

या लेट्स गो टू गुकेश। या आई थिं his time because he only has 1 minute 23 seconds. 1, 2, 3 on his clock.

6 more moves to make. Gokesh's last move, Bishop b2, Knight d4, is actually not the most accurate move.

But by engine, no, we have to also look at the practical play. When you are in time pressure, this is very—

even this I don't like.

Let's say the king is coming in, knight is coming here, these pawns could become weak. I think Gukesh winning this looks a little bit tricky. You can see him looking at Prag's board and he's like, Prag, what's up, Prag buddy?

Are you doing it?

By Prag.

Oh, PD5 played, man!

And can he find King D8 as well? He plays it.

It's बदल रहा है, but still it's like, you see the bar also is going up. And down. He's not so sure whether Prag is winning or not.

The best way found by Anish Giri, which is incredible.

And now the thing is, if you go for Rook d1 to pin here, there is c2.

You might lose there.

No, he won't go that. No, he has to go Knight d3.

Only move is Knight f3.

And according to stronger engines, according to stronger engines, this is a winning position for white.

No, but why?

How? Knight f3. That's the only move.

But then only move and you have eight minutes. You will need to find this. And you can three marathon.

No, I mean that doesn't look good.

I can go back, but then rook d1 and you lose the bishop.

Oh, with a check. Fine. Then he will find.

No.

Knight f3, guys. That's the only move. Let's go, Praghu. Let's go, Praghu. Knight to f3.

Vamos. Move your popraghi. Looking at the score sheet. 39th move here, last 40th move to be made. He will use all his time unless he just knows that Neftri is winning.

One sentiment that is echoing amongst all of us, the move Knight to f3.

Gets up and looks at the other board, Mukesh versus Erwin Lamy.

Anish is hoping that somehow Erwin can hold and he can hold and a 2-2 result would be really good for Netherlands, man.

But you know, sometimes it's so sad because Anish played an incredible game, amazing middle game positional sacrifice.

15,000 people watching this, guys. If you have tuned in, you have tuned in at the most perfect moment. India is playing Netherlands in the Chess Olympiad. The score is 1-1. 2 games are going on. If you see Prag is here, and if we remove this chessboard that is there in the background, you can see Gukesh taking on Erwin Lamy, and both of them are in a better position.

But let's stick to this board because the move Knight to f3—

should we also quickly check what happened just then? And also, one thing to remind all of you is Prag not accepting the draw was a genius move, right?

Yeah, for sure.

If he would have taken a draw, we would been so tense here that whether Gukesh will win or not.

And I think it's good that we have that question because Gukesh does not have such an easy task of converting. I don't even think he's much better now because the dark-squared bishop on g7 suddenly forced to protecting the pawns on e5 and d4. This game is, uh, likely going to go on for a long time, but Pragg can win immediately. Well, in in in general he can if he finds the move knight f three. Sixteen thousand people watching.

If Prag does not find this move, this match could end in a two-two draw because then Anish will hold this and Gukesh may not be able to win that slightly better position. So very key moment. Five minutes to Prag, four minutes to Anish. We are on move fortyth.

16,000 people are watching and cheering for India right now, praying that we have to go ahead. France was the only team actually, right?

Oh, Vaishali is clearly worse.

Bye, let's—

no way!

That's—

that should we wait?

Should we quickly check on that?

Because maybe we keep the video of—

well, not really, guys, not really. This is a fight. This is a big fight.

But I'm worried for Vaishali because she has 2 minutes And D5, Maltshevsky, very strong.

It can turn around this game. I mean, if Vaishali loses, to remind everyone, the women's team will lose the match because Divya cannot win.

Exactly. It's the most likely draw. Let's go back. We'll come here after seeing if Pragg makes— it's Pragg and Vaishali both have to make critical decisions.

The brother-sister duo, the entire match, round 5, round 5. Entire match comes down to this move. Move number 40th is known to be a move where people can go wrong. Can Prag be clutch? Look at Anish. Prag shouldn't look at Anish right now because Anish, in my opinion, on purpose is trying to look very relaxed. I think Prag needs to just focus on the board.

I feel it's only that he's making sure that he has 4 extra minutes and he should utilize all the time. So that he doesn't make a mistake. But I guess Prag has found a move Knight f3. He will go for that, guys. Mukesh winning again. Oh, that is awesome. Wait, Prag going to make a move? No, he's going to take some time.

Mamma mia!

Oh, Mukesh's position is slightly better. Okay, we don't think Mukesh's game will end anytime soon. Let's remain on Prag's board whether he will make the move knight to f3. We can even go full screen to see because Prag's time down to three minutes twenty six seconds.

And look at Shrinath there. He is looking on the left. He is looking on the right. He is like just a game. जीत जाओ एक मैच. जीत जाओ point मिल जाए. We need one of the two players to win. Prag is bobbing his head. That shows confidence. That shows confidence and that. He believes he's winning here. He's about to make a move.

Oh, knight f three. He's gonna make a move. Knight f three.

Well, now, वो उधर देख रहा है। नहीं, वो calculate कर रहा है। But खेलेगा knight f three.

He's about to make a move.

Hundred percent.

Not sure, guys. Not sure.

Hundred percent sure. I'm hundred percent sure.

Down to two minutes forty seconds.

He is going to be hovering around the knight on e five. Well, that's what we want him to do. And come back with the knight to f3 to attack the bishop on d4.

Does not do that, then Anish will be able to manage a draw.

And it— oh, he goes the other direction! Wow, Anish is back! Anish is back!

A game of small margins.

I know, but Anish is back at least. There's clearly— if he plays c2, Anish is— oh, but he's not going for c2. Moving his king. No way. He's moving his king. Small margins.

This is the 40th move.

Anish, if he plays c2, 40th move, and he gets the draw because he gets 30 extra minutes. But if he plays king c7, he would land up with a lost position and 30 extra minutes.

No, but if let's say Prag went knight e3, he definitely saw c2 and he may have been okay with it.

Well, you can't calculate everything. In chess, Amruta, contrary to what Elon Musk thinks.

I know, even if everybody calculates, doesn't matter. No, you—

nobody is not making that move. I think he realized that moving the king was a mistake. If he now suddenly moves the pawn to c2, the game turns, the match turns suddenly from winning. We enter a position that might objectively be a draw, and he plays king to c7.

Oh, this is a losing move. That's a big mistake. And 40 moves done. Look at the bar climb up. They walk away from the board. But guys, it's not clear. Look at Srinath there holding his head. I mean, he doesn't have any engine or bar to look at. He's just using his grandmaster mind to figure it out. Gukesh and Erwin Lamy there, but Prag is better. He is close to winning, guys.

The Guys, can you find a move here? And it's not easy. Why?

Brother has now 30 minutes to work it out. He's winning. You have to work it out. What is the winning move here? We'll come back. Let's go to Gukesh's game.

This was a classic example to see how 39th and 40th move actually most of the mistakes in chess we have seen.

And talking about the 39th and 40th move, well, on 39th move, Lami has suddenly erred and Gukesh has a chance. He has a chance to invade with the rook to a1, but he has 20 seconds on his clock.

Because that's why he's given that 7th pawn over here, just to show the last—

oh, he blunders! He goes rook c— one second— rook c8. It's not a great move. It's a great move, great move. He's going here and here.

It's a similar idea. Instead of rook a1, rook g1, it's rook c3 check and rook g3.

And Gukesh is under a minute, but his opponent is—

guys, this is 39th move, only one move left, then we'll go to Vaishali's board. We'll just finish this. 4 minutes.

17,000 of you watching. I have a feeling that we might get 2 victories. Liamy Irwin down to 4 minutes now.

Needs to make one more move and he made c4.

He plays it.

He plays it. What a genius. What a defensive move. Allowing, allowing dxc3 so that you can block with the king.

And now you shouldn't, you shouldn't get tempted to take the pawn.

But he has 30 seconds. Rook a8. Only move. To come in, but it's so difficult to give two passes, right? I don't think Gukesh will play Rook eight. Vamos! No way. No way. If Gukesh plays Rook eight, he will. That would be too much.

He will not say anything because Bomba. He will play.

He will play. Come on, Gukesh. Yes. Intuition.

समझ गया। At its finest.

World champion. Actually provoked the C two pawn to C four and then he went to World champion OP. He also gets the deep passers. तुमको भी दिया, मुझको भी मिला। Wow! Wow! Forty moves are over and time to very quickly switch to Vaishali's game.

Just to show you this, all everyone has gotten up because now it's clear both Indians are winning. Forty moves are done, thirty extra minutes to both the players looking very good here. But let's head over to Vaishali. What is she doing here?

Vaishali and Prag OP and everybody. OP guys because it's very difficult to face such.

Oh, Vaishali is losing, man. Vaishali is losing, but this is move 39. Two more moves.

Can we get magic again on this 39th, 40th move?

We were. Harshit bhai black magic.

Harshit bhai कुछ करो भाई.

No guys, I don't do black magic. It's just positive energy and and pray. Exactly. No black magic. There's no such thing as black magic.

Rook e3.

Absolutely guys.

Knight c4, but just take it.

Yeah.

Yeah, right now Vaishali needs to go rook to h1.

Two pawns down.

I mean, this is looking yeah very tough. Six seconds for Vaishali. She needs to move. One last move to make.

Vaishali move. Hello, Vaishali.

Hello. King to b six played.

Very tough.

With six seconds on the clock.

Yeah, and it seems like Vaishali might be going down to Maltshev.

But and and the thing is, you might feel like Divya can save the day. But guys, look at this. Divya has no chances. It's a dead draw. She did her job to draw that difficult position. But Vaishali now, the only chance for Vaishali is if her opponent blunders massively here. It's the 40th move because after that 30 extra minutes. Can Malcevskaya?

What move can be a blunder? Like here, if let's say King B6, what is the move? Naturally, white will play.

Well, I think something like rook c two would be natural here, but that is the move we want because rook takes e three.

ये नहीं होने वाले हैं। ये नहीं होने वाले। Guys, that's what not going to happen.

That's what we would hope white plays, but I don't think Malchewskaya is gonna play this.

Rook f six, rook g two, rook e two. All these moves are very very okay. Let's see if she is able to. Find it or not.

Yeah, one minute for her, and she does make a move, and I think she does go for rook to f six.

Hi, rook f six is the best move. If she plays it, it's over. Did she play it? Are you sure?

He said no. Harshit said yeah.

She played it.

Played it. Yeah, that's what it looked like. And guys, Maltshevskaya is actually putting a lot of pressure on Vaishali.

And guys, we have a very special guest joining us, someone who is a co-chair of the team of St. Navis and Kids, and also the guy who has taught thousands of kids chess because of his famous book Chess Course. Sir, we are right now live with 16,000 people following this action. Mr. Prafull Zaveri is here.

Let's go!

Thank you, thank you.

How are you feeling?

Today, now it's like a great feeling. Uh, the team is doing well.

They are 3 players, but today like, uh, both the underrated players, one has been able to win the game and other has been able to draw. So though we like lost, but yes, I feel the team is doing for a small country, it's, it's a good team. Amazing. Just to give everyone an update about what's happening, India versus Netherlands is going on right now and तो ये स्कोर इज़ वन-वन प्रक एंड गुकेश बोथ आर विनिंग अगेंस्ट प्रक इज़ बीटिंग अनिश गिरी एंड गुकेश इज़ विनिंग अगेंस्ट एविन लामी सो देर थ्री वन इज़ पॉसिबल बट इन द विमेन सेक्शन द स्कोर इज़ वन-वन वैशाली इज़ लूजिंग हर गेम टू माल्सेव्स काया एंड दिव्या इज़ ड्राइंग सो So this is the update overall. And now, sir, coming back to you, uh, there are many small countries in this tournament because 200 nations are taking part. And many of them, we saw today one of the boards, there was a scholar's mate which happened. So they didn't even know. And by the way, Prague has found—

yeah, but so quickly. I thought he will take a lot of time, but he went Knight b4 very quickly, attacking over here, looking at c2. 2 anyway.

Wow, wow, wow, wow, this is— that's amazing. And Harshit bhai, maybe you want to explain why this is winning.

I think, well, what I saw is that if bishop goes to e6, uh, we can— I guess it's not easy, actually not super easy.

Knight c2 is the most natural move.

Yeah, exactly.

You want to block, but it drops the edge massively.

I guess the engine's like rook to a1. Ah, because king b8, there is knight c6 check.

Oh, but what about bishop a7?

Maybe then you attack this. Yeah, that is right.

And then, and then knight a No, not Knight a3 here, just, uh, because if the bishop moves a7—

oh, that is better. Rook a3 is better.

And this is what Prag has seen, I think.

Wow. So Prag will give India full points and Mukesh here. So do you often go and visit the Indian courts?

Uh, no, like I have to be there with the team, so it's like very difficult to go to that part of the world.

I have to stay focused.

On your—

otherwise they will feel—

yes.

And how, how is this process where you are with this team? You, uh, out of the 5 players, how many are rated? Uh, only one is rated, and that too 1488. So like, it's a very small country, a population of only 55,000. Oh, they don't— yeah, is it an island?

It's an island.

It's a part of 2 islands, Kitts and Nevis, and they both are at a distance of 45 minutes by ferry. And they don't have a culture of chess tournament. So basically, they have to go to Barbados and play the tournament. But the in charge of Kids and Nevis, Miss Dela, is the one, and she's like very enthusiastic about doing well. And so it's like she has brought a very young team for women. They all three are under ten. Oh really?

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Wow, that's so.

All are doing very well. So like I took around. Around ten classes before coming here online, and so overall the team was like what we say they have very good future. Only thing is they don't have tournaments, and they don't so they have to go to Barbados fly travel and travel and then play their tournaments. So do you do you intend to travel ever to Saint Navis and kids?

Yes, hope so.

Like a day we had had a good morning, and I feel that you know. So we can contribute to make that country develop a chess culture. So she also likes the way I am teaching and taking interest in the team. So let us hope it works out well.

Wow!

And you know, guys, there is one very famous book called *The Chess Course*, which is written by Prabul Sir. I read it when I was a little kid, and Harshit here, who is now a grandmaster, also began his journey with this book.

I did, and I. Recommend it to anyone who asks me about how should they start their journey in chess. I think Chess Course is the, is the way to go.

Thank you, I'm so honored. Thank you. It means that, sir, you have created grandmasters in India thanks to your contribution. And now it's not only going to remain in India, in fact, it's going across the world to a country like St. David's and Kids. So thank you for doing what you are doing. Thank you. Thank you for your encouragement, and always like whatever you are doing for us, it's like it's a big honor.

Thank you.

Thank you, Prabhu sir, for being here, and hope to have you again very soon.

Thank you.

Thank you. Bye, sir. Guys, that was Prabhu Savary, not just the coach here, also a person who has done innumerable tournaments in Mumbai, kind of created the chess culture Remember Gukesh, that famous photo getting a trophy from Vishy Anand? That was a tournament he organized, and today a lot of things, uh, are rolling because of this one person who thought of few things in his mind.

And meanwhile, by the way, there is a bad move by Alexandra because look at this, she is getting one pawn back. So now, now Rook h1 and you attack this. If you try to defend this, there is check and you lose the b2 pawn.

I take on h6.

Ah, okay, you give a check.

King d3.

But it's tough to assess because it feels like the rook pawn is the enemy. And how is this equal?

And there's Rook b3, Rook a3. So let's say h5, I try to rush.

Okay, check.

King e2.

King e2, not ahead, huh?

I, I don't know, I don't Want to go ahead and rook a three. Okay, but not takes e three.

Whoa! Oh oh! But that would be lost. No takes takes.

Oh, it's lost. Oh my god! What should boy? This is crazy. Then rook pawn is the biggest enemy of the knight.

Can you imagine? Like even after blundering, you're still winning.

Yeah, but I thought it through.

And that's how it's a beautiful, uh, this thing. No need of engine there.

Wow, so the men's team looking really promising, but we are gonna get a setback.

I am not sure. Don't you think some chances we cannot win? So you—

we—

well, a draw would be a good result after like completely losing position, right? Or, or at 30th move, maybe Vaishali was pressing.

Exactly. So we are going to see a small setback in the women's section because The Indian team can no longer win. We can either pray for. I mean, we can. We'll either lose or pray for a draw. Oof! Why shall he has to draw?

Yes. Neverly asked. Tiger, भाई आप फातिमा स्कूल में बारह साल थे क्या? Yes.

वही वही सागर शाही है। Oh la la!

Oops! Oh what happened? Yeah night before was refreshed. So they warned us. To go over here for a moment.

And Prag knows that he's winning. He's drinking water. Yeah, he's relaxed. Anish, with hands in his head, knows that he has, he has made a big mistake.

Guys, can I draw your attention to the games of other teams very quickly to tell you what hap— what's happening? So one very big news is Uzbekistan is currently 2-0 up against Hungary.

And then what is Peter Leko and Sindarov was a draw earlier? Is it the same? They are still playing.

Board one and three have won, and Javokir Sindarov is still playing against Peter Leko. And somehow we are facing some internet issues. We can change it later.

So अभी ये रखते हैं फिर। Finally, water bottle, water bottle. Okay, this is totally unexpected in women's board today. They were looking so strong this tournament. Yeah, actually Vaishali was also better, uh, something in the time pressure I think these did not.

But guys, I, I can tell you one small thing in this tournament, it all boils down to those key moments, one or two moments. It's not about your team being strong and so on. Under that pressure, that crunch pressure, you make a bad move, it's done. That's how Chess Olympiads are. It's not about— you know, last year somehow the Indian men team made all the right decisions during crunch moments. It's very rare.

In fact, today also, for Prague to decline a draw by Anish In a position which was not for me, that was the biggest moment. Amazing to you know that level of confidence, that level of like you have to play for everybody and it's not just about your own game. Sometimes in individual you might even say yes. Yeah. So too good, too good.

That was a that was a key decision.

By the way guys, Javokir Sindaro is pressing.

भाई जावोकिर सिंधारो draw करता नहीं है। Why he wants to make sure that not only his team wins, he wants to make sure that he goes closer and closer to 2800. He's already 2778. He has won three games so far, if I'm not mistaken. Yeah, and he wants to win another one against Peter Leko.

Wow, Tiger forty moves are over.

Right?

Yeah.

And you are still chewing gum. अभी तक you are chewing. Your joy is not tired.

और जीरो के नापे नील हराएंगे उज़बेकिस्तान हंगरी को। Oh my God!

That is impossible to believe.

And you know what this means is that Uzbekistan suddenly becomes a big favorite because they have a big lead in terms of game points. And if we ever end up playing against Uzbekistan, we would have to win.

We cannot afford a draw. Like how in Chennai India was leading. India was you know feeling like going towards gold. Suddenly Uzbekistan came in. By the way, and over here it would be this. It could happen ultra.

True. But USA is losing now.

I look at this last move by Matthias Blubam to give up his bishop. What an excellent decision by him and understanding that giving up the bishop is still a draw because after f takes g five, rook to f four. The rook goes into f5, and then black just waits. King g8, king g7.

Wow!

The white king cannot escape the blockade the rook has set up.

Wow!

Matthias out of blue it came. It happened.

And the the for like a candidate of this year, Matthias Blubam is showing his understanding and classier drawing.

With the black pieces against Wesley and giving Germany the victory over USA because Frederik Swana beat Hans Niemann.

Man, a big team goes down. The US team crumbles against the German team.

But Hans is playing for his country.

Huh?

No, no, no.

By the way, Ding drew. Yeah, this means that actually speaking, China may not be able to win their match because Wei and Hovhannisyan drew. Uh, Yu Yangyi game is ending in a draw, and Kong and Kong Xiangru Draw. In fact, he's worse.

He's depending. Yeah, so the Chinese team is also going to draw against Armenia. No, this is already a very close match between all the teams.

This might— China might lose if Pong doesn't hold because he's a younger, young guy. He might go wrong.

The tough endgame.

Yeah, you know, earlier, like when we were in Batumi, China had won the gold medal. Yeah, uh, even before that, China had. So China, how many Olympics they've won, because maximum at that point they had won.

Yeah, they had won 2018 and then they won, uh, they couldn't then win next.

But before that, before that, maybe they had won 2016.

USA won.

Ah, okay. So China and USA have been kind of on top to win the Olympics in general, but now, uh, India and Uzbekistan have been there.

Yeah, but China is facing a tough endgame here, guys. This might be a very interesting endgame. In books it's given as a draw, but practically it's always tough.

Have you studied it, Arshad bhai?

Yeah, I think, uh, I think that this game, this position, I have studied with black, and black at some point needs to go, uh, uh, g6 and king g7 and just try to hold like that. And at some point f6, g5.

Yeah, that plan is always there.

Very important.

Sometimes you can just wait, but sometimes also f6, g5 is active plan.

Exactly. By the way, in open, the US team lost in the women's section as well. The US team is in big trouble.

Really?

Yes. Uh, but at what level did you study this, and what do you recommend to the people who are improving?

I think around 2300 is when maybe I had a look at that endgame.

Guys, look at this. This is unbelievable.

Karisa is losing.

Karisa is losing to Afrouza Khamdamova.

Yeah, completely losing.

Karisa is very strong.

Name in mind, Afrouza Khamdamova. She is WGM already, 2443. Yeah, she's board one of Uzbekistan. And Bulruk Begim is pressing against, uh, Alice No, she's trying to hold.

She's in some trouble, but she's trying to hold. But let's imagine she holds. Then on board three, Tatev's game is a draw. Well, she actually is defending this, so Tatev can lose as well. And I think the Uzbek team is a big favorite actually because board four, Rose Atwell drew her game. Only three boards remaining, and out of that. Three boards. The U.S. team is in trouble on two boards.

Meanwhile, in the Vaishali game, so in a way Uzbekistan both women's and open section they both are inching you know closer towards yeah leading.

ऐसा लग रहा है ना वो पूरा it's very similar to what happened in Chennai twenty two Indian women team was crushing. Indian men team was also crushing the beating. Then Uzbekistan stopped, and in women also they lost a very key round. Something, you know, crazy.

Mamato, thank you so much, saying happy streaming, guys. Thank you so much. Very, very exciting day today in the open section. In the women's section, however, the, the battle continues, the struggle to Hold continues as we have Divya drawing her game. So only board remaining is Vaishali. The score is updated 1.5-1.5. If Vaishali loses, we lose the match. If she draws, we manage to save one match point.

Harshit bhai, uh, in percentage terms, how much chance would you give How much chance would you give to Vaishali to hold this? As we have a very special guest joining us, we have Pratamesh Mokal here, International Master and coach of the team of Yemen Islands, and also very close to us, both Amruta and me. अमरुता के ब्रदर प्रथमेश, गुड डे पर केमन आइलैंड्स। I would say a decent day. It was two all. We according to the positions it could have been more. But two all is fine. We played a higher team. Oh nice. Higher rated team. Yeah. Wow. That's very good. Also a team where there are many youngers, right? Cayman Islands.

Yes.

Can you tell a bit about the team? Yeah, the team has got Sara. On board one, who's doing very well. She's three out of four. There is Alia on board two. She has to gain more experience. She has she's playing a first Olympiad, and there is Anvita on board three. It's a second Olympiad, and she's doing well as well.

Two and a half out of four. They have played all higher teams so far.

So I think they deserve this kind of level. Board four and board five are yet to strike form.

They are struggling a bit, but let's hope then.

The second update.

It must be so tense to be inside the playing hall and to look at all the games, right?

Because, you know, I follow 4 teams. One is the team I'm a captain, then second is the open team of KMI, third is of course India, India men's team, and the women's team. So I go around in that circle, I see all the games of these 4 teams, and I come back. Oh man, you must be doing maybe 10,000 steps easily inside the hall, 2 to 3 times.

But they cannot measure because they don't have mobiles allowed inside.

And I'm really happy to see, you know, I'm watching this game versus Anish. What happened to that?

It's actually going on. It was exchange up, right? And, uh, Pragg is now winning.

Yeah, but Anish played an incredible check.

Anish sacrificed the exchange It was a beautiful exchange. Sack, he was actually better, and Prag actually managed to fight back. And then Anish offered a draw when it was equal, and Prag said no draw and actually converted into a win. So very good play by Prag.

By the way, Yogesh Rawat says, I met Pratamesh Mokal in May 2001, held in Calicut GM camp with Evgeny Vladimirov. He's such a gem.

रावत। वाओ, वो स्कैम्स थोड़ा मिसिंग। एंड हर्ष से इस बैकर ऑफ़ 14 इंडियन चेस 49 मंथ्स विजिट कोच.चेसबेस.इन फीडबैक इज़ वेलकम। यस, अ ह्यूज अपडेट टुडे गाइस, वी हैव लॉन्च अ न्यू प्रोजेक्ट, इट्स कॉल्ड चेस डायल, एंड वी इट्स एक्चुअली होस्टेड राइट नाउ ऑन कोच.चेसबेस. That coaches are listed there so that the students who are looking for ideal trainers get the option and opportunity to meet them. So this is right now the small update. As we have major update, everyone got up. What happened here? Because there is someone truly special who has entered our studio. You are in the center, Matthias Lubau, the man who has created— you guys have created an incredible upset today, beating US team.

Yeah, no, it's, it's of course a huge result to win, but yeah, I mean, I don't feel like I created anything special.

My game was absolutely horrible, but okay, luckily, as a team, luckily Frederik carried our team, so So just so that people know, Vincent Keymer drew against Fabiano Caruana. Uh, you know, Matthias drew against Wesley. So very tough game, I must say. Uh, you, you were— I mean, just to show our viewers, we saw your final move, Bishop takes g5, that very smart defense.

That was incredible.

Did you—

were you aware of this?

Like, I mean, I already for a long time I understood if I can like get the structure where he only has a g5 pawn and I get rook on f5 with king on g-file, there's absolutely nothing to worry about.

Like, I can't—

it's absolutely impossible for him to progress. So, so I just felt after g5, okay, I have this chance to take the fortress. Why, why would I even consider bishop? I mean, for sure, like, other moves also draw, but I just felt, okay, let's—

so this was the moment when you took the pawn on h4? Yeah, because you had to know that.

I mean, at some point he had to play g4. There nothing to do. And okay, he finally chose this moment. I feel like every move is a draw, but I felt like this is just a clean fortress, and I just— okay, worst case I need to sit here for 50 moves. But like, even if I go King h7 and allow him Queen f8, I don't think it's any, any issue. Like, I mean, there's no reason to, to do it, but, but yeah, even this Queen f8, like, the king only can, can cover only 3 squares, and my rook has 4 squares apart from f5, so there's always a square left.

How do you approach this match? Because, you know, you are playing against like one of the strongest teams in the tournament. Of course, you have a very strong team as well with Vincent, yourself, Soane, Donchenko. But how do you like, you know, do you approach this match like 2-2 is good? Or do you actually think before the match that, you know, we can win?

I mean, I don't think we came into this match with a clear mindset. We need to play for a win in this match or something. I think everybody just wanted to play their game. I mean, Vincent is white on board 1, he can beat anybody on a good day. I'm black against Wesley, so my task was to just be solid and make a draw, which I managed, but okay, very badly. Um, yeah, Frederik with white against Hans, you, you never know. Like, Frederik is also just a very strong player, and I, I guess he was just always much better. Like, his position always looked nice, and I mean, yeah, I mean, out of the opening he just got some kind of advantage, and he just was always pressing. So it was, yeah, always a nice board to look at. And Alex also made a very easy Draw with black against Levon. So yeah, like everything just went really well for us. But it's not we had a certain mindset. We said like, okay, Frederic, you need to win this game. Like, but he just wanted to play a normal game.

But you for sure choose openings in some way, right? Let's say for example you were black, so you maybe would not play Sicilian to keep the game exciting. Like you would probably try to be very solid.

I mean, in general against Wesley, it's normally not the right approach to create something yourself. Like, yeah, I just wanted to let him make do something. I mean, he's, he's also extremely good but also extremely solid, so I don't think there's a, there's a reason why I should play something sharp with black against him. So, but yeah, Frederik's game is just very nice, very nice, completely outplayed Hans.

And you know, uh, the German team has been kind of growing in strength every single Olympiad, right? Do you think like you guys are right now at that stage where you are very ambitious Maybe the gold medal is a reality.

Yeah, I mean, for sure we should be ambitious. We have a good team, and now of course this is a huge win against the US. But I mean, let's see, like, tournament is still long, so there's still plenty of other good teams we need to fight against. But, but obviously I don't think we ever had an Olympiad that started so well, so hopefully we can, we can do something.

I love actually the team camaraderie that you have because on the first day Vincent was not playing, but he still came and he was like there to root for you guys.

And also the thing is, even when it's not the Olympiad, you guys are always together. It's not even like you need an Olympiad to be together.

Yeah, that's true. I mean, at Grand Swiss or World Cup or other big events where every, every one of us is, we also hang out. So it doesn't make a huge difference. But we, we also like, like at a normal tournament, I also watch the other, like the games of the others. But here, of course, I need to keep in mind what's the score of the match. But yeah, it's, it's very, very similar to just normal tournaments for us.

And that helps, right? This just feeling of being together.

For sure, it can't hurt at least.

Yeah.

And, and just, uh, for our viewers, you know, when you play a tournament like the Olympiad as compared to a Candidates, because, you know, both tournaments are very high pressure, just is it very different?

Yeah, it's different in a sense. I mean, there's not as much pressure on myself. We're playing as a team. And also I feel like yeah, candidates is is in a way more special. But of course Olympia is also a huge event. And yeah, I mean it would be great if we can like we have a great team. So yeah, it would be great if we can have a good result. So let's hope we can continue our run.

And Matthias, we have you here. So just a speculative question. Germany is very strong. But when you compare the Uzbek team and the Indian team, which one do you think is slightly stronger between the two?

I mean, that's that's really tough. To be honest, I would have just always said like Uzbekistan, India, and USA are like the top three favorites, and it's very hard.

Now you've beaten USA, so we remove them.

No, but I mean, they those three teams are just clearly clearly better than others. It's it's hard to say which one is stronger. It just really depends on the form in the tournament. I mean, I've seen like Uzbek team today also won like a clean match.

Yes, I. 4-0.

Ah, they might win 4-0. I didn't, I didn't see that, but I saw like they won both black games. Yeah, I thought, I thought Leko is maybe actually not worse for sure, but, but yeah, last board, Vokidov is for sure pressing. But okay, I guess in match of India also looks good. Yeah, 2 draws and Pragg is probably winning, or is he?

But we were in actually big trouble because Anish was almost close to winning.

Ah, okay, I missed all the—

Anish made an incredible decision here. Yeah, he took on h3, allowing this and actually calculating that this is a very good exchange sacrifice.

Yeah, that's nice. The dark-squared bishop is just so strong. And yeah, I mean, once you see this position, it looks nice for black. But yeah, of course, to go for bishop h3 and all this is very impressive.

And here, I think maybe, you know, on other board, in, and like in the match situation, it was like they were doing really well, and maybe Anish thought that like trading the queens and playing for 2 results was a good idea back then. But of course, in hindsight, maybe you should have kept the queens.

Yeah, but yeah, it's always easy to say in hindsight.

But, and now here, actually, after Bishop d3, after Bishop c6, Anish offered a draw.

Hmm. And, uh, slightly better.

I mean, Pragg is such a fighting player, I don't think it's in his spirit to take a draw here. He probably feels he is He's not worse anymore with white. And but but of course it always depends a bit on the match situation. But but I feel like Prag would always continue in this position.

Yeah, and he made bishop d3, and it was tense. But Anish made a mistake, and right now we have this position.

I mean, still looks complicated, but but yeah, seems like he's just yeah. Actually, it's hard to make a move here.

Yeah, well, long day for you, Matthias. Thank you so much for visiting us here, and all the best to Team Germany.

Yeah, thank you.

Congrats. Thank you, guys. We had Matthias Blubaum joining us from Germany. A huge upset created by the Germans against the US team. What a fantastic play by them. Especially Frederick Swanner leading from the front. We have a question. Matthias, I'm starting a mathematics degree in October. Do you?

Oh, we'll ask him maybe.

Very sorry. Bit check. Sorry, Mohit Singh, Mohijit Singh. And we have Yatin. Oh, Yatin, father of Aarav. Now I have realized chess commentary is not easy. Aarav tried yesterday for three hours with Padmini ma'am and got tired. He enjoyed a lot but appreciated all the efforts put by chess commentators. Thank you. Well guys, do check out Aarav Sarbalia on Instagram, one of India's talented young boys. And also he commentated on Padmini Rout's channel, also a highly recommended resource for all of you. Padmini has created 2-3 videos recently, very nice ones. She's an IM 5-time national champion of India women's chess, Olympiad gold medalist in 2020. 2014 on board number 4, that's the reserve board I think she was on, she got the gold medal. And she's streaming every single day of this Olympiad, so do check it out.

Yeah, yeah. Also, anyway, Arav should keep continuing because, uh, initially it's tiring, then it's like building सेमिना और या देर रीज़न वी आर एंजॉयिंग सो मच एंड हैव एनर्जीज़ बिकॉज़ ऑफ़ दिस प्लेयर्स राइट देर फाइटिंग सो हार्ड एंड सॉरी यू वर सेइंग आई मीन वैशाली डज़न सीम तू बी डज़न सीम लाइक शी हैज़ चांसेस हियर या वी शी इज़ राइट नाउ इन अ वेरी डाउन पोजीशन वी शुड र And Malczewska, well, what a player for Poland.

One and a half, one and a half, and Malczewska will win, which means Team India might go down for their first loss. And it's painful because the women's team did not lose a single game until now, not match. They didn't lose a single game.

But also the team today they were facing was strong, and Malczewska was also quite like two three six. 3 is underrated, you know, for her. Yeah. Uh, we have a Super Chat by 17 Shark.

A fictional Russian team, yeah, and, uh, Nepomniachtchi, Sergey, uh, and Grischuk, uh, with Andreikin and/or Tomashevsky on the reserve board. How would you think they would get on here?

I think fight for gold.

They would for sure be contenders for the podium, for sure. Uh, especially with Jan recently defeating, uh, Magnus and winning the GCL. I think he's in good shape.

Yeah. By the way, guys, do you feel that Gukesh could get potentially in some trouble here? Because look at those 2 white pawns moving ahead, and these 2 knights look tricky creatures. And Erwin Lamy is known for being a big fighter. You remember Grand Swiss when he was losing against Vidit and Beat him first round.

Oh yeah, in fact that was the game where Vidit afterwards like just went on to become the champion.

Yeah, I actually do agree with you. There is a certain danger that Gukesh needs to be careful about with these 2 connected pawns. Uh, the good thing for Gukesh is that the white knight is still, uh, kind of far away from action. It's on h7. And you could see Lamy finally gets up from the chair, just gets, uh, uh, some— tries to relax a little bit here, uh, to see what's happening on Anish's board. Well, not a lot is happening there because Pragg is completely winning. And you know, that kind of tells me that we shouldn't be too worried about this board because we have essentially won the match. I mean, Gukesh cannot, cannot lose.

No, that was my small worry. I mean, I know that I'm Unnecessarily worrying here because Gukesh is clearly better. Like Prag's position, I know that he cannot lose.

He's gonna win.

I mean, yeah, he will win. But in Gukesh's position, there are some elements that white has, like these 2 pawns could become risky. And when you overpress, like you remember Gukesh sometimes overpresses, and it happened against Nodirbek, right? Uh, in 2022. Maybe he learns from it.

I would love to ask one question to the chat and to you all also, because you're talking about how dangerous it can get for black, which is true. What is the move you are like? Have you seen engine moves?

Uh, yeah.

Have you both seen engine? Okay, let's ask the chat. Yeah, over here. What is the move you can think with the black pieces? And if you want to improve in this, uh, you know, ideas. You should check out the book, Dwightson's Intermediate Moves. There on the shop in ChessBase India. I think it is an important book for especially intermediate players.

So one idea that I can think of is Rook c2 check here, and I was calculating King d5, but then we use a d-pawn, right? Exactly, d3. And here I thought, like, can I, can I use my knight somehow? Let's say Knight e3. Yeah, that's the problem. You hassle because it's so cool.

Yeah, you can never take.

Yeah, so somehow I can't— if I could magically give up my knight for this pawn, let's say d3, b5, d2, Knight e3, you go like this way. This could be a game.

Not really, because you're also not having your knight on h7 involved. And with, uh, with your knight being so far away from the action, I don't think it's close.

So then to a check, I have to always go backwards, not forward.

And that kind of, uh, is a good sign for Gukesh, right? Rook c3 check now, and followed by rook c4, he might just be winning a pawn by, by force. And he wins the pawn on b4. So I think, uh, this is the way Gukesh can, can continue.

And I think many of the people, uh, did consider rook c2, though not so many.

But yeah, do you think commentating from here is slightly trickier than from a closed room? Because I feel like we are, we are kind of speaking a bit louder than usual.

I think if I had headphones, I— it would have maybe. But also the thing is, because there's a lot of background noise here.

No, I mean, we are like— I get this sense that a normal 5 hours of streaming is not that— it's not that tiring. But here, because there's so much— we are in the open, I get this feeling that we are unnecessarily shouting.

Maybe we should increase the sound of the decibels.

Maybe we should, we should talk like, yeah guys, but maybe I get it. I think that you will not be able to hear me. Ah, that's why I have to.

Why?

Why? Because there's a lot of noise out.

So like, for example, usually we can hear easily. No, for each of us, not just me. We all are trying like a little bit louder because—

no, because it's the person who is in center can easily speak softly.

No, no, it's not about this. I use headphones.

फिर तो और जोर से बात करते हैं, that I've seen.

Yeah, rook to a three now is the winning move by Prag. Yeah, everyone wanted to check this out and the The point is that you just simply cannot defend the pawn on c3. So Prague, after the move rook a3, might might already win the game, as Anish has no good way to continue.

If you go back here, you just push the pawn. Yeah. So this is completely over.

Yeah, I think we should go to Vaishali's board. I mean, that's the key match. We have already won this. The open section we have already won. The question is if whether Vaishali can defend. Yeah. That's the big question. Well, we need to, we need to sit here because, uh, even in the open section it's clear we are winning now, right? So I mean, good point. We need a miracle here, which is unlikely, but we should still wait and see whether, uh, what's gonna develop. Knight to b7. She's trying, right? She's trying to find some tricks, guys. It's not easy. To be a player, to be in Vaishali's position right now. Uh, she's the last player playing and she has a bad position. Just imagine being or putting yourself in Vaishali's shoes right now. It's not easy, guys.

Yeah, like you are the defending champion, a lot of hopes, and then 1.5, 1.5, and you are kind, kind of going to lose the game. So that's not easy. But, uh, I guess this loss does not say that, okay, India cannot become champions. I think one loss is fine if you win the other matches.

Yeah, for sure. But, uh, you know, even just to sit back and just, uh, say that Vaishali didn't play well, I think is a bit too harsh because, uh, we, we don't know the mindset that the player is in. I mean, imagine that Divya was much worse and Vaishali had to take certain risks. Don't forget this storyline. Vaishali could have made an easy draw. It was equal, but Divya was much worse, and Vaishali knew she had to take risks, and the risks comes with a price. And this is what we are saying right now. It's not Vaishali played bad. She took risks based on the information she had in that position.

Very nicely said, because it does then go on to say like if you are individual game, sometimes your decision decisions would be different. But then you are looking at the team and you, as you know, said that beautifully, that the country is bigger than you.

By the way, uh, sorry, it was a nice message by someone, uh, Kritanshu, who says, I can understand as I played close Nationals and lost— sorry, CBSE Nationals and lost in such a way. That's a really Because if you have ever played a team tournament, you know that you never really want to let your team down. Also, Harika, who has been an ultimate team player, always mentions that playing for a team is sometimes more stressful for her than an individual tournament. But you could see like when when we had Matthias Bluebaum who came here, he said that he feels relaxed in a team environment. So I think different people take up team tournament in a different way.

How would it be for you, Arshad?

Well, it depends which country I'm playing for, because if I'm playing for a country which is fighting for a podium finish, I would be more nervous.

Already what?

You might have played some, no, team tournaments. You might have.

Okay, like from my previous experience, I am a I would say I'm, uh, I might be a bit more, uh, nervous. Although I even— I mean, you know, even I'm nervous, I still enjoy team events a lot more. But obviously if it's a serious team event, I would be nervous because I don't want to let, uh, others down because of my board, you know. And there is some additional pressure because you don't just play for yourself, you play for something bigger than yourself.

So I think I have double experience. When I was playing on the top board at some national team championships with my team, where we had players of similar or lower level than me, I used to feel very relaxed playing. In fact, I would play quite well. But when I played this India-USA match where there were clearly stronger players on my team like Gukesh and Arjun, I didn't want to let them down.

Right.

So, there I kind of felt the pressure. Felt the pressure. So I think it depends on who your teammates are, right? Uh, whether you feel relaxed or not. So when Amruta was my teammate, I think we played a couple of times, I used to feel quite relaxed because you had nothing to lose. Maybe Amruta used to feel stressed back then, or much—

I mean, compared to an individual game, much more stressed.

But luckily, I think it all depends on your teammates and what you look at it.

Because you want to give your best and, uh, you know, you don't want to botch it up. But luckily when you, you are playing well, then it is fine actually. So by the way, everyone wanted to see this. Gukesh took the pawn on g2 directly, did not give a check in between. Yeah. And, uh, now is it going to get any risky with c6 or b5?

Uh, c6, rook c2 check. Yeah, rook c2 check and d3, and we are promoting our own pawn. I think the— maybe the difficult question is whether white brings the knight from h7 back into the game.

Also check, and it's winning.

I think a key move.

So knight g5 is the key move as according to Harshit over here, but then I give a check, king d3, and now a check.

King d2.

What?

King e2 maybe.

How is it different if I go rook c4? I'm surprised, uh, because I'm still winning a pawn. No, Harshit?

Yeah, knight f3 maybe. Like, white will basically give up the pawn on b4 and take the pawn on e5 and try to hold this.

Hmm, the best chance to fight.

Yeah.

Okay, this could be interesting scenario.

Did Vaishali finish her game? Is it over or no? She's still fighting.

David has super chatted. My first ever tournament was a team event, 2012. I scored 4.5 out of 5. But our team ended mid of the table. Team events remain my favorite in all of chess. तो अगर सुना क्या सुपरचैट? विविध भाई ऐसे कह रहे हैं। Yeah, it's very it depends on you know many times with the team around you feel relaxed. Like Aronian for example we have seen in GCL how his team he played it twice and both the times he won. One and unity and the fun they many times have at night. Everyone's going for a walk, then they are playing some card games. Like it's all all of it together.

Yeah, I think this camaraderie and team bonding is very important. Also, Matthias mentioned that you know the German team is stream ऐसा दिख रहा है। Let's go! Why would you be like this every day?

Yeah, somehow I'm bit worried कि कितना internet वो लेगा। Ah, correct. तो इसमें बंद ना हो जाए, but now I think it's lesser somehow right.

Age, age, age do thank you for your contribution.

Subbu VCS thank you for becoming backer of Indian chess.

Vikram Patel is saying you should do a couple tournament. हाँ we are waiting for Harshit bhai to get into a relationship.

Find the love of your life. Any hopes here for Vaishali, or it's just hopeless?

Looks tough. Yeah, she's down three pawns.

I don't even see where to attack because every pawn is defended. ये pawn को attack करो defended है। ये pawn defended है। ये pawn defended है। Maybe go up, Prag.

One, like I'm gonna check.

No, no, maybe we see if Prag finishes this off properly. Yeah. Oh, he found Rook a3 check.

Yeah, took the pawn. And now it's a good big question though.

You have to be careful not to land up in this Exchange up position. Exactly. You have to finish it cleanly.

I guess rook b two is a good move.

Rook b two, ah defending.

Or rook c seven. Wait a second.

Let's be clear.

Ah rook c seven is clean.

Yeah.

Clean win is rook c seven.

I guess a seven. Yep, this is— and we have a question by Aditya who says— thank you, Aditya, for Super Chat. Firstly, might be a dumb question, how different is pushing for a win and pushing for a draw? At what stage of the game do you decide to go for either? Love your commentary, by the way.

Oh, that's a very nice question. You want to go up, you know, answer it?

Well, I think you try to gather information from what's happening on other boards. Very difficult, I must say, with your own clock ticking. For example, when Prag had to decide whether to push for a win or just make a draw, uh, he decided to push for a win based on his own assessment of the position. And also just sensing what's happening. When you have to push for a draw, I believe that there is, um, somehow— oh, he won!

He played Rook to c7.

Ah, best move. I don't know, like, just what is at stake is also very interesting, because if you're going to win the match by a draw, you're— you would be so energized, right, that a draw will give you the match. While if Are going to get only a draw after holding a tough position. That may also energize you. But yeah, in team tournaments, it's all about your team. Whatever helps your team, you will do that.

Bishop to b six.

आप बताओ भाई.

I think I agree. I mean that you basically it's about the team, and you basically take a like you know you wait until you see that something very drastic is happening in one of your teammates' positions, and then make a decision. Until then, I think you don't want to burn too many bridges and play very risky chess. You want to keep it balanced and wait to take that risky decision until there is a big result on the other board. Okay, bishop b6.

Such a nuanced question. Yeah, you have so many ways to look at it. Yeah, I think maybe what Anish is trying is a7, but rook b7.

No, a7, just bishop a7.

Bishop a7.

Oh, I think Rook b7 is—

oh man, that's such a good point. How is it not?

I mean, I thought it's a very strong move here. Um, but, uh, after Bishop b6, Rook b7 is the easiest way to finish the game because after King b4, Rook b6, your a-pawn goes towards touchdown.

Wait, wait, wait, Bishop c4 is— one second, a7 is the same, right? Bishop I mean, I can't take anything because bishop a six, knight a six, rook f seven is at.

Rook b eight now.

Wow! Waiting move.

Yeah.

Now I can't take here because of.

I mean, even now knight takes a six is winning. King a six, rook f eight, and rook f seven.

And by the way, Gukki's opponent has blundered. Nice. Oh, crazy. Oops, sorry. Yeah, wow, this was what we were thinking. I think it, it's maybe more attractive.

Yeah, to fight, you know, but this is just over now.

d3.

This is over. Game over. Finito.

D3. He plays D3.

Oh, D3 on the board.

And boards 1 and 4. And you know, this is a big moment for Gukesh winning back-to-back games. 3 wins in a row this is going to be for Gukesh.

Yeah. Niketian says, oh no, reminds of—

he's won 4.5 out of 5. Yeah, yeah.

Drag games reminds of Ajubai's game against Levon Aronian in World Cup, where Aronian offered a draw but Ajubai refused and later won.

And you know, it's incredible to me how Gukesh manages to keep his calm, to keep his, uh, you know, strength amidst so many people questioning himself. He's coming back, you know, in this Olympiad exactly when we needed him the most, and now The move pawn to d2, one step closer towards the queening square. And after knight e3, rook c3, that is going to be it as the final moments of the game.

Bye, Goki passed kill like them.

d2, go, go, go, Goki!

People were asking, will we make another song for this World Championship match?

Absolutely.

I hope that there will be someone who will be interested to create We'll love to, you know, do it together.

Too good, too good by Gukesh.

Oh, Avir is watching. Our nephew is watching.

Hello, Avir bhai. Good to see you.

Yeah, and the point now is the pawn is queening. If you go knight f two, just to show what's happening for knight to f two, this is also an important move. Knight f two. The problem is we can go rook c one, giving up a pawn.

Hi, d one square नहीं है.

आह नाइट डी टू आई हैव रुक सी टू आई थॉट वेट हाउ इस दिस अ ड्रॉ वेट व्हाट यार मेबी एंड वाओ दिस इज़ एक्चुअली अ ड्रॉ ओके सो कमिंग बैक आफ्टर डी टू नाइट एफ क्रेजी वी स्टिल नीड टू बी केयरफुल विश्व हेड सिक्स आई गेस या या और King d7.

Yeah, Bishop h6 looks—

Bishop h6, and just to protect the d2 pawn and threaten Rook c1 next.

Okay. And also I want to check if I go— could go King d7.

But what I love, by the way—

sorry, one second—

Mukesh's focus was very high. Yeah, like he's not just taking it lightly here.

Even until the last move, until his opponent offers his hand in resignation, Mukesh doesn't want to relax. He knows how the tables can turn, and he wants to make sure that he doesn't let go of the grip he has.

Yeah, you were saying something, Amruta?

Yeah, but Charlie is losing. No, what was I saying? No, I thought a King d7 के बाद कुछ हो रहा है, but 95 check भी आ रहा है. Not working out.

Yeah, what a day!

रोलर कोस्टर ऑफ़ अ डे आज लियामी ब्रिंग्स द नाइट फ्रॉम जी फोर टू एफ टू भाई विल वी सी इंडिया वर्सेस उज़बेकिस्तान टुमरो और इट्स क्वाइट पॉसिबल एक्चुअली और इंडिया जर्मन एंड इंडिया उज़बेकिस्तान लास्ट टाइम आल्सो इट हैपन्ड रिमेम्बर इट वाज इंडिया चाइना ऑन राउंड स Rumble, 7 minutes.

Royal Rumble, actually they have used all their time. They had got 30 minutes after 40 moves, so it's been a long, long game.

And, um, guys, I just, you know, sometimes I'm in awe of how Sagar manages to commentate for so long even after, you know, doing the commentary, going back creating recap videos, taking care of the entire team. I mean, it's incredible, right?

I'm not taking—

I'm not able to take care of the team, but still it's insane how much you are doing because I am only doing the commentary, guys, and it's also sometimes quite strenuous. But this is just like, you know, 30-40% of the work Sagar does in a day. Insane.

Not sure. Insane. Bye India!

Let's go, let's go guys, let's go! The open section doing well, but in the female section we need them to bounce back stronger as Vaishali is going down to the Polish Malczewska.

I have one idea, can I execute it? I want to invite someone to our commentary from here just to say hi. Sure, I will go.

And they have to cheer when India wins.

Yeah, so yeah, that's a good question actually by some people, was like, was it needed to kind of rest Savita today who was in good shape, 4 out of 4? But you know, uh, it felt like Polish team was so strong that we had to go with our best team and, uh Maybe in hindsight one can say that, okay, maybe Savita being there could have been better. But oh, look at this, he plays Bishop h6.

Let's go, let's go!

Final trap averted.

I think this will be it now. This is going to be it. And Prag did not make a blunder, guys. Prag has everything under control. He is Totally winning.

Oh, absolutely. Anish is down to 2 minutes. I think this is going to get over right now.

We are going to see resignation soon.

g3 has been played, the last move by Prag. Rook b7, g6, g3, h5. They're gonna make like— it's like everything is a Zugzwang.

You know, and Rook to b8 at some point is going to be played by Praghu. 13 minutes for him, 2 minutes for Anish. Anish fighting it out until the last moment. Mukesh is also winning on his board. Board 4, we are going to see 2 back-to-back results. And both in the favor of our Indian team.

And this is the you know these critical moments which go on, the games go on. It started at three o'clock. Our stream has started and it's already almost eight o'clock. बहुत ज़्यादा लग रहा है पर आ eighty बज रहे हैं अरशिद भाई। हाँ? It's just eight o'clock.

It's five hours into the game.

But yesterday it was eight thirty को ख़त्म हुआ। Yeah.

I'm very happy. If bishop c8, okay, the thing is, if here, if bishop c8 was played later, maybe Harshit will take it later. If bishop c8, um, I guess rook b8 again can be played, and if bishop takes a6 Knight takes a six, king takes a six, and now this endgame is winning because after rook f eight you are going to lose the pawns. And there is a move played king to g two.

Either I think yeah now the king can just say that okay everything is done. I am a piece in the endgame which I realized very very late. First king आएगा तो कैसे?

कोई भी नहीं रोक सकता। Hello hello.

Hey, मैं सुन रहा हूँ। You can come in the middle. You can go in the middle. Guys, we have a very amazing personality in the world of chess. His name is Grandmaster Samuel Derzahakian. I remember him in many different ways. One way is when Harshit Pai first, uh, we met him in 2022 Olympiad and he commentated for Chess Business the first time. His first ever interview was with you. Yes, so that was one. The second is that he's a strong grandmaster, 2600+, even 2650+, if I'm not mistaken, right? No, now I dropped a bit, now it's 2600+, uh, but yes, my peak was 2650. 2650. And here he's the coach of Japan team. Oh yes, and the thing is Samuel has a very clear aim in this tournament. Samuel, would you like to share with our viewers? Of course, of course. First of all, hello, hello to our viewers. It's my pleasure always to be here, and I'm also a big fan of your channel and I'm watching. Yes, our goal is to be in top 50, and I should say that we are number 76 ranked, so it's not that easy because so far we won 3 matches and we lost matches against Italy and against Kazakhstan.

Oh, very tough pairing.

Yes, yes, against super professional teams, it's really tough for us to play. So we are, uh, yes, we are trying to score some half point or 1 point.

Yes.

When you say a super professional team, what do you mean? Can you tell our viewers?

Of course.

I think in chess world we know that how serious people are approaching in, uh, about chess in Kazakhstan. Yeah. And they are having many different coaches and a very young generation of players, and all of them are working quite hard. So it's, uh, yes, against that kind of teams, uh, it's always very tough, uh, and especially for Japan. Yeah. Can you tell us a bit about— in Japan, shogi is very famous. So how is the adoption of chess? So look, very, very important question because our second highest rated player, he's also a professional shogi player. He's a GM in shogi? No, but he does have a very close— I think they are having, it's called Dan, if I'm not mistaken, and Yes, so we were trying, Federation, myself, we were trying to negotiate, you know, please come because you are having almost 2400 rating and it would be very important for us to eventually reach top 50, yes, but unfortunately for all of us, he had some tournaments, yeah, and he didn't manage to— what's his name? मिराई मिराई मिराई, but there is also someone by the name Habu, right? Yes, but he he doesn't he doesn't playing in. Yes, yes.

Basilis Sylvester Pinto says I interviewed him in Goa. He did well in GM Open in 2019.

Hi bro. He had won the tournament or second place. Was it victory?

Idani.

I think I think I won. No, I think I won.

Yes. Yeah, once he won and once Idani. Koya won, I think. Yeah, back to back.

I remember once someone won and gave us the trophy to carry back.

That was it. Yeah, it was so huge. He's like, it's not fitting in my bag. Yeah.

Is it true that if a player plays shogi, they are very good at chess tactics? Uh, yes. Uh, and you know, after the game, we analyzed our game, and, uh, he was also trying to very quickly Explain the rules. Absolutely. So yes, yes, guys, I should say that it's, uh, it's, uh, it felt much harder than chess. Yes, yes, than our game, uh, because, uh, you know that pieces are having, uh, so you can promote. So we have only pawns that we can promote, but in shogi, some other pieces can also change their role. Uh, yes, I think if someone doesn't know how to played shogi and chess. If you— I think chess is much easier to explain than shogi.

Yes, because I was—

after about 30 minutes of— if you play chess for 20 years, it becomes easy, right? If you play shogi for 20 years, maybe it will become easy. No, don't you think so? Uh, yes, of course. If you, if you start playing, uh, shogi, if you work, uh, then probably yes, you can, you can You can do it. So what are we having here?

We are having final moments of Gukesh versus Erwin Lamy and Prag versus Anish Giri. Gukesh is winning and even Prag is winning.

Uh, d1 queen, knight d1, rook d1. Is, is it clear? Or probably king c6, right? Because king e5, yes. Very nice. And King b5, but then he cannot move anything.

Yeah, so Bishop— no, Bishop f4 I like as well. But yeah, Rook e4 is maybe—

Prague is also winning. Yes, Prague is better. Can we see? Prague is winning. Yes. Ah, yes.

I know he only has 40 seconds. Maybe we can stay here.

Yeah.

Bishop.

Yes, I was surprised that, uh, US, USA lost to Germany. Yeah, Germany. So Wesley had some, uh, advantage, but it was not enough because some fortress. Yeah, yeah.

And Bluebaum drew and Hans lost. Yeah, to Fredrik Svaneck. And now I guess Prague would—

why did Prague do this f3 g3 business? Like what, just like that?

Or I think he wants to go King e1, King d2, King e1.

This is nice. Yeah, this looks great.

And, and, and if Bishop a6 here, Bishop a6, you are always takes, takes. There is no hope. Yeah, so I think Anish had 4 out of 4 though.

Yeah, and today also he was going to—

yeah, he was better.

This player is beautiful. Too good chess.

By the way, King e1 played, and I think maybe the last few moves of this game, because King d2, King c3 is unstoppable.

Yeah, big win, big win. But Samuel, uh, are you also enjoying, uh, following the games of other teams in the hall? Yes, of course, of course. Whenever I have, uh, I have time, I'm walking and I'm of course checking the games. It's so interesting because I have been on, on the other side as well. I, I've Played. Yes. And no, no.

Did you play with Gukesh and everyone like in Goa or something, like when they were young?

In 2022, I had chance to play Arjun on third board. Oh wow! Yes, I played Arjun, and I also had chance to play against Prag, but I think Narayanan Visrinathi he changed the lineup. Yes, and I played Atiku.

By the way, Navi says GM Samuel YouTube is very instructive for blitz.

Oh wow, yes, I am streaming. Oh wow, that's amazing. And if it is not, uh, something that you may want to share, like why did you decide not to play for Team Armenia this time, or was it like you didn't qualify for the team, or how? Yes, first of all, I did not, uh, qualify, and last last 16 months, uh, I was living in Singapore. I was working there in a private chess school. Yes, and then, uh, in September of 2025, I had a chance to visit Japan, and we met, and they eventually signed, uh, asked me if I can, yeah, go on, work with the team. Yes, I'm about to become an inactive player. My last tournament was September 2025. Oh wow, so you are, you are now a full-time trainer? Uh, but, uh, in October I have, uh, German Bundesliga. Ah, so you will become active again? Yes. Amazing. By the way, Samuel, just to update you and our viewers, Indian women's team has faced their first loss here And they lost to Poland 2.5-1.5, 3 draws, and Vaishali going down to, uh, Malcewska.

And I don't think guys who think that there won't be gold anymore for women's, it's, it's not true.

No, it's a long way to go. Yeah, 5 more rounds.

Yeah, so not 5 more, 6 more rounds.

Yeah, 5 rounds are done, 6 more rounds to go. We are gonna get our chances, but of course it's, uh It's not a, not a good result for the Indian, uh, women's team. By the way, what's the point? Bishop f2 has no threat.

I think King c3, Bishop e1, he wants to try, but it's not like a big deal.

Yeah, I guess even there, yeah, but you can go King d4. Yeah, Bishop b4, a7.

Yeah, uh, what?

Sorry, King c3, Bishop e1, King d4 takes the knight, a7, and, uh, pre-move 8, Queen checkmate. Nice. Okay, is there anything else? But okay, if you see one, it's good enough.

Yeah, with a very interesting, uh, message that first seeds in both open and women have lost today. USA were the top seeds, they lost to Germany, and India was the top seeds in women, they lost today.

Oh.

Yeah, I know it's a very tough event.

Yeah, but full credit to Polish team, right? Because for them to hold— firstly Olivia Kielbasa holding Humphy to a draw, then Claudia Coulon holding Divya to a draw, and then Malczewska pushing with the white pieces against Vaishali, the World Championship challenger. And also on the last board, Vantika and Monica सोच को होल्डिंग है, लाइक ग्रेट परफॉर्मेंस। या ऑफ़ कोर्स। बाय द वे पीआरटी से लास्ट टाइम इंडिया विमेन लॉस्ट टू पोलैंड, दे वॉन द टूर्नामेंट, यू नेवर नो। दैट्स हो पा। डेज़ाबू देर। एंड सैमुअल, हु हु डू यू थिंक टुडे जापान फेस्ड विच टीम? मोनाको। एंड यू वॉन? We had good prep, but unfortunately didn't work. Yes, and we lost on second board, but the rest of the team managed to come back, and yes, we won three one. Wow! And well, Samuel, because of you, we are now going to follow the Japan team very closely, and also the goal that you have set to finish in top fifty. Guys, do cheer for the Japan team. And Samuel, thank you so much. Arigato gozaimasu. Arigato gozaimasu. Whoa! What does that mean? Nice to meet you. No, no. Thank you very much. How do you say it? Can you tell me? Arigato gozaimasu. Arigato gozaimasu means that you are in a respectful way. You are saying thank you because you can say also thing just arigato, but arigato gozaimasu means you know very respectful. Arigato gozaimasu. Thank you for teaching us. Thank you. And thank you for being here.

Wow, thank you. Japan, Japan. Thank you, guys.

That was GM Samuel Ter-Sahakyan from Armenia coaching the team of Japan. This is what I love in Olympiad, you know, everyone's helping each other. Chess level is growing in the world. Like, let's go, you know. He learns from the Armenian school, then teaches to Japan. Japan learns from there. Figure.

Yeah, like training in Singapore for 15 months, now training the national team of Japan.

Wow. And bye. Come, come, come, guys, we have the coach of the British Virgin Islands. But that's not how we know her.

We know her as the sister of Sagar. She calls Sagar hermano. She's the wife of Nikhilesh Jain, who is streaming on Chess with India Hindi. And of course, she's a very, very good, uh, friend over here. Very nice to be here.

And how is the tournament going for British Virgin Islands?

Okay, okay, we are learning a lot. Definitely, there are 5 girls full of talent. They are super talented, they love chess, they want to improve their best, and that is the best thing for me. I'm working with the last one and a half month, something like that. Is a project from FIDE that they want to like improve the chess in different countries, in different islands. So I'm there. I'm happy to be here with you.

Thank you.

Hermano, I have your rakhi. Rakhi? Yes. We can do that. Oh, I also had a rakhi.

We can do it in front of.

14,000 people. Guys, by the way, guys, is going towards the win while—

oh, the pawn is about to queen though for white. How do you stop it, Harshit bhai? This is looking crazy. What the hell? Bishop f2 letting white Queen, then you queen, but the king is going to get checkmated. Wow, good job!

Okay, Hermano. Yes.

Oh wow! Thank you so much.

No, I love this tradition because we don't have in Colombia. Oh, so nice. Next time we'll prepare. Every time Angela sends a raki. Actually won.

And Gukesh won! Bravo!

What a perfect moment! Well played by Gukesh.

Actually, Gukesh is doing well, and I know that Angela really has a very, uh, yes, you love him and has a soft corner. Because I think when you came to India, that was the time Gukesh became a GM, or he was just improving.

Yes, he was like improving. When I came to India, he was like 13 years I think he—

no, 11.

Okay, 11. And after he defeat me in the Delhi Open, I think— oh, so clean game.

So then you knew that he might become a world champion?

Yes, yes, I knew that. Yes, Nicholas and me were there when he became a GM.

So that's—

and you people are saying you have to give a gift to her. No, no, no, no, no. He gave me many gifts. They both give me many. That's it. No, man, I'm telling them all the time, no, no, please. This is not in Colombia. Love to enjoy this rakhi tradition.

Well, thank you so much, Angie, for coming here, for doing this beautiful, uh, giving me this rakhi, and also for coaching the, the British Virgin Islands. And we wish you and the team all the best.

Thank you so much. Bye-bye. Bye-bye, guys.

That was Angela Franco, WIM from Colombia, also a very strong chess player. This time she is training the team of British Virgin Islands, and, uh, was very nice to have her. India is now leading 2-1 with Buki scoring another win. That was really cool, Amruta.

Amazing. No, it was very nice little moment over here when she tied her aarti. I think, Sagar, you would love to gift her maybe a chess book, right? She loves chess. So much in general. Oh, by the way, look at Anish over here. He feels very like, you know, you— when you know you played a beautiful something, like a masterpiece middle game, only to almost lose, it's a bit depressing.

Yes, guys, I will plan some good gift to Angela and give her in the next stream rather than right now, because in hurry, if I give Maybe I will give something more thoughtful. So we will do it on stream in front of you guys.

I played her within Chasebiz Bhopal Blitz tournament. अरे nice! That is what Tejas Soni said. Mukhi and Olympiad performance are like made for each other, says Tarun Srinivasan. Yes, still halfway to go. But yeah, Natsi says सागर में घर दे दो। घर होता तो yes. They've come to our house. It's been very nice. He's back. Everyone's like, he's back, guys.

Tomorrow— so there were 8 teams on full points. Today after this, we will be left with 4 teams or maybe even less, Amruta, because some might be 2-2. So 4. And then I think Uzbekistan will reach full points, Germany will reach full points, India will reach full points, and there will be one more team, uh, which will reach full points. Let me see. China couldn't make it because it was 2-2 in China versus Armenia. Uh, Romania is Perhaps making it. Oh, I don't know. I think it's possible that top two seeds will face off each other and the third seed will go down. So maybe Germany will go downwards and India Uzbekistan could play tomorrow. That's my opinion.

That will be too early, I think, if that happens.

Yeah, मतलब last time sixth round में ही India China हुआ था ना?

So actually guys, the Best scenario will be that tomorrow India versus Uzbekistan, we have a positive result and then we all go to a Bermuda party. क्योंकि परसों is going to be a rest day and tomorrow night सागर पार्टी के लिए ready हो?

Not ready.

Not ready but होना पड़ेगा कल ready सागर.

Crazy crazy guys we are last game of the day left for team India. Pragnananda playing calmly, confidently, and somehow this entire fortress is so powerful because the moment, like, he went King g5, the moment you take here, I simply push the pawn and make a queen. So there is no chance for this bishop to move from this diagonal. The knight keeps protecting the pawn, the rook keeps protecting the knight, the king Keeps coming in, and that leads to a loss for Anish. I mean, Nirijar Sharma said Nikhilesh bhai की love story देखी मैंने कल कल ही what a coincidence oh अच्छा and Anish resigns Pragnananda wins great game by Anish Giri great game by Pragnananda And what I love about Anish, guys, is his ability to analyze even after losing. This is very rare, this is not common, and that means a GM who kind of rates chess knowledge higher than results. It's very rare.

Wow, very well said.

Who had this huge shocker, uh, and he readjusted himself after Bishop takes h3, managed to still find the ability to keep making the best moves and scores a very, very important win for Team India as we win with a score of 3-1. The score is not 4-1, guys, we'll just correct that. It's 3-1 for Team India against the Dutch team. And you know, at some point it felt as if we might even lose this match when Anish was winning, but This boy, this guy, this man, Pragnananda made sure.

Do you see how he's smiling? I can't even—

he's not smiling. He's saying, I should have brought back my bishop, Knight g4, and I would have a winning position. He's just so unhappy that he did not convert that great position he had. And in fact, if that had happened, we would have had a 2-2 score.

Yeah, but I can't— you know, this is very tough. Like, from such a position, you have had a long game. You know you are clearly better. मतलब ऐसे दिल दिल ऐसे टूट जाता है ना and still he's able to just recover so quickly, man.

Well, because Anish simply loves chess and you know these are two chess lovers talking, not a Dutch man, not a Dutch GM and an Indian GM talking right now. Too good, too good.

It's not easy, guys. It's not easy to Uh, come back to terms that the game has finished. You sometimes, very often, are still in that game mode. And this is a skill that I would love to acquire from Anish, to just, yeah, leave the emotions as soon as the game ends and, uh, try to, try to just, uh, you know, be very present.

But I'm just not understanding still, he's— the way he's analyzing With a smile, मतलब it's it feels like there is so much fun. Like chess से से वो humor jokes आ रहे हैं उसको सारे। Yeah, I think that I've already seen with Anish.

It doesn't surprise me anymore, but I'm sure it would surprise many others. Over the years, I have just grown to admire him. But today, the day goes to Pragnananda and he managed and Gukesh. Yes, for sure. I think. Ragh scoring on board 1 and Gokesh scoring on board 3, uh, board 4, engineered India's 3-1 victory over the Netherlands. And that has been the day, uh, the beautiful, beautiful result for Team India.

Uh, the women's section, we, we went down, uh, 1.5-2.5 to the Polish team. That was a tough pill to swallow, but I will think, I will go back and think about my prediction For tomorrow, want to make sure that I.

Yeah, Harshad bhai का prediction crazy. One and four bhai literally.

Why you can? The thing is that you actually have the ability to.

You're choosing not to. But no, I mean as for what you are.

Four. Bhai आज, bhai आज दो लाख का खाना खाया। दो लाख। दो लाख रुपए का?

नहीं रहे। नहीं दो लाख, guys ten thousand Uzbeki som no one thousand Uzbeki som is eight rupees so calculate five of us had दो लाख रुपए का खाना is equal to how much I think around eighteen hundred rupees oh five of us no yes the food and the transport and all is very reasonable here so it's not super yeah Europe would be crazy Europe में तो चलके ही आना पड़ता तथा सारा सामान। पर भाई आज आपको जाना पड़ना है वापस भाग के और ये भूलना मत गैस ये कैमरा पे आदमी को मुंह पे लगा है। तुमको भी तुमने बोला था मैं उसके साथ बात करूँगा। नहीं फिर तुमको कल स्पोर्ट्स के बारे में बताना है। आज सागर भाई को वापस जाना है भाग के। और तू कैसे देखेगा? म to run five kilometers. पर यहाँ से होटल ना five kilometers decide किया था। ठीक है। so I will run five kilometers। पर five kilometers से पास ही है हमारा होटल। हाँ अच्छा got it। नहीं भी रहा तो चलेगा। okay dance करना है आज। हाँ let's go because India won in the open। क्या dance है भाई आज का? यो भी भाई I think because India won today and very auspicious day, we can do garba.

चलेगा भाई। श्रीतलपुर माला में बगैर बाद से नवरियो है। गम्मारियार ना let's go bye.

People are saying like what? What's happening over here? Is it okay? Yes guys, it is a chess stream and that's how you celebrate when we win. Uh, Sagar, you had to send emojis. Gukesh, fire!

Yes, I think we should end it with hearts now because we had fire, we had crown, we had everything today, but it was hearts that actually triumphed in the end. Love is all that we need for the open section and also for the women because they can make a comeback. Exactly.

They need the hearts even more, guys, because they will be trying to win their gold medal. This happened yes last time as well. We did lose a match but still managed to win the gold medal. But it won't be possible without the hearts.

Bye.

Tomorrow very likely we face Uzbekistan. Wow!

All hearts. Oh my God!

Thank you so much, guys.

Guys, tomorrow very important because एक तो बर्मुडा पार्टी के पहले you really want a good result.

Harshit bhai. Harshit bhai. नहीं बर्मुडा पार्टी में I might not go. I might not go.

क्या फेंकता है यार मतलब लिमिट होती है थोड़ी तो लिमिट होती है एक काम अगले ओलंपियाड में हरिश्चित भाई को इधर के वेन्यू में चाहिए नहीं सारे कच्चे चलेगा भाई be ready for बर्बुडा पार्टी guys if you don't see me tomorrow you know why but for now I think bye bye see you no guys I have to thank like we can end the stream Like this. What was the focus move of the day, Sagar?

Oh yes, oh, we had many focus moves actually.

Actually, h4 was one which we said Arjun's focus of the move. I would definitely give this, uh, Anish's bishop takes h3 move focus of the move as well. It was from the opponent, but Pragg managed to win that. And, um, uh, sir, which one?

Well, I think.

One Tika played very well. We had amazing results. All those who were saying कि किसी ने इसने rest लेना चाहिए था, उसने नहीं। I think it's very very common to you know if the result is bad, it's very easy to say that person should have played. If the result is good, then it would not like this would not be said. Like even today, if India would have lost, people would have said Vidit should have played. So I think we should not discuss that much. In general, it should be about, you know, what is the situation right now. That is more important.

My feeling is, Amruta, today the neuro focus moves of the day, I would give it to this one, uh, where you play the move c3. It was very nice. I mean, we had other moves, but c3 is— yeah, this was very nice by Gukesh, and he managed to then find bishop c4, then he played another good move, then another good move. And actually, he never let the advantage slip by completely. He did make some errors, like his conversion wasn't 100% smooth, but he kept that edge throughout, and that was nice to see. Gave up a pawn, then time pressure also he had to sustain. I thought this was the best maneuver, going here, provoking, and going back.

I agree with you. And also Rook g2 was fine. He was— it seemed he was very confident in his body language.

Oh, this did happen. Yeah, at the end. Okay, that was—

so that was neuro thing, neuro focus of the move, and Gukesh managed to win another game. Prague, very critical. All those who joined right now declined a draw from Anish. Anish had put— Anish had found some amazing, uh, combination positional sacrifice. He was better. It was a one wrong decision of Anish to exchange the queens, and from that an unclear position, it slowly converted into Prag, uh, you know, favor.

I'm actually curious, where did Vaishali go wrong to lose? Because, uh, I guess she was also pressing.

She was really having a good position here.

Yeah, she was pressing here. And actually, till here she was doing well, but take, take. Also, this position was equal. I mean, a draw would have been a nice result now that we lost. So we, we saw it here, King b7. I think it went away, uh, slowly, slowly, not just like d5.

Yeah, maybe 2-3 bad moves in time pressure really impacted.

This move turned to be a big mistake.

Wow, wow! इतना बड़ा था क्या? That means we were watching thirty-six.

It's not even clear why. I think Aishali's position was very tough.

Was Rook h one the move she should have played?

I think Rook g seven was the move somehow.

Okay, yeah, very good. With that f pawn and the rook very active.

Ah, so the point is, I'm not that maybe she just. Lost the a4 pawn. So if she went Rook g7 and you go Knight e3, then Rook h1, and then I take here. It was very tough.

Ah, you are basically saying that I will win either h or f pawn. But to understand when you have 2 minutes, like, you have to look at engine and then even understand why this is—

what is this? This is so tough. No, it's very difficult for, uh, for वैशाली तो साइड में प्रैक्टिकल मिस्टेक आई वुड गो योर मेबी मच बिफोर इट वुड बी मेबी द क्वीन ट्रेड क्वीन ट्रेड एक्जैक्टली बिकॉज़ शी कुड़ गो रुकी एट कीपिंग एन आई या सो टफ डे फॉर वैशाली एंड टीम इंडिया इन विमेन बट दे विल बाउंस बैक आई हैव दिस बिलीफ इन द टीम आई नो द There are youngsters. I know that Swayams, the coach, and the seconds are going to work tremendously hard, and tomorrow they'll come out all guns blazing. And one defeat is usually not sufficient to take away your chances of gold medal. So we're going to see that happening tomorrow, guys. Take good rest, come energized for— I think what's going to be either India-Germany or India-Uzbekistan. Either of the two, and we are going to be here. Take care.

Wait, I'm viewing the gold chances, sir.

अच्छा, yes, you want to show the? Wait, let me show that. Amruta has a very nice. Oh, you've already switched it on. This is women, so I will open the men. So this is the open section.

Uzbekistan.

Currently, uh, we refresh it, right? Because there must be some update. Oh, you— how can USA still have the highest chance?

Maybe it was before the round.

Yeah, yeah, now it will be updated. For now it should be. But you see, Uzbekistan, instead of being 3rd seeds, have already taken 2nd spot. I, I personally think, Amruta, that Uzbekistan is going to have a higher chance of gold after their 4-0 thumping of, uh, Germany. 4-0, can you believe it?

It's— no, it's—

can you believe it? He beat— Nodirbek beat Rapport, Sindarov beat Leko, Yakubov beat Benjamin Gladura, and Shamsidin Wakidov beat Doudin Gleb.

You are not showing this, right?

Well, I think I'm showing it. It's incredible, insane, crazy form, huge. Okay, we have 3,500 people, guys, guys.

He was just saying, I have my first chess tournament on 26th September. Any advice me on preparation or anything that could help me? My rating is 1079. By the way, let's go India! 107.

Hi, go to chessranga.com/tactics and solve all the tactics from there. It's free, open, just have to sign in. Start with 2-star puzzles. Go into the filters, there is view all my filters. Start with 2 stars, 3 stars, 4 stars, finish everything, and it will help you a lot is my feeling. And guys, today we did launch a uh, project for the first time, and we will talk more about it in the coming days. But just to even show those people who hadn't seen it before, it's something work in progress. But we wanted to— with all the projects that exist on ChessBase India, we want to put it out to our viewers, get feedback, and improve. That's how we want to function. It never goes as the final product. It's always we doing things together So this project is called Chess Dial. Uh, it is about finding the trainers and coaches. Uh, and you can see here, every rating has its coach. Find yours in one tap. And basically it's a platform where you put your level. Let's say for example you are, uh, a beginner, you put here, and then coaches nearby you will be listed here. So right now, my, uh, what we want is more coaches to list themselves. I think we have close to 27 coaches, but if you are a chess coach and you are doing chess coaching, then you can list yourself here. The link is in the description. It is coach.chessbase.in, and we will try to build this platform Uh, in a very honest and a good way so that those who want a chess trainer can find the right one.

Website coach.

It's called Chess Dial, but it's you can go to coach.chessbase.in. The link is in the description. Okay, Amruta.

Guys, one of the days when the stream might end soon, we can take some chess. Improvement questions in the end. Today we will end it.

If you want to take, I'll anyway go and do the recap.

No, no problem. We can, we can do it. We can do it later. Okay guys, thank you so much. And thanks to, you know, now this mic is working, everything is set, it's cool. Thanks to Who's Chess who helped us a lot to set this up as well. तो मजा आया आलस कल गोभी पराठा खाया था इंडियन रेस्टोरेंट से आया था यू नो करण हेड सेड हाय इज हेल्पिंग तो ऐसे करके काफी कुछ काफी लोग मदद कर रहे हैं बट आई एम एक्साइटेड फॉर टुमारो एंड रियली होपिंग फॉर अ पॉजिटिव रिजल्ट फॉर द बाउमुड़ा पार्टी सो मजा आएगा ऑल ऑफ यू यू टेक केयर We are facing Uzbek.

Okay.

Oh, Jaikar, I don't know whether your trivia was taken or not, but, um, yeah, a lot of things were happening, so some days, uh, it may be missed. Bear with us, tomorrow we'll do it. Yes, there is the plan, of course, to do podcasts. But lot of things, and you know, there are some ideas like if there's the plan since already two years, there have been ten topics also. Everything was there. Very interesting idea. But करते हैं बिल्कुल ही time नहीं मिलेगा तो between live stream in the live stream we'll try to add it and. Let's let's see how it goes. How is your hair? मेरा कोई hairstyle नहीं है. I cut my hair and then they grow the way they want to. Some days are good, some days are bad. That's what I really like—not to be very attached with your hair and with your looks and so on. And that's kind of we have a similar thinking, me and Sagar. That's why we can yeah. A lot of, lot of productive things to be done, guys. So see you tomorrow and take care.