Abhimanyu Mishra had a winning chess position against Leon but made an illegal promotion move, placing a queen and rook on the same square. The arbiter ruled it illegal, Abhimanyu ran out of time on the replay, and Leon won the match 12-8 for his team.
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9-8 is the score. Last, everything depends on the prodigy board now.
9-8, and it comes down to this board. And will he capitalize on it?
Abhimanyu can just push the pawn to h4, Tanya, and it's game over.
There's too much attack for the Alaskan Knights. They are a point down in the match right now, but winning this—
finds it, finds it! Abhimanyu will get the point.
Everything around H4, Sagar. He's doubled down on that G3 pawn. He's coming for the white king, Abhimanyu.
Beautiful chess by Abhimanyu. And you can look at Leon. He knows that he's in trouble because next move, rook takes G3. Two rooks and the queen like the sniper sitting in the corner.
And both players know that it's down to this match. If Leon can save it, if he gets the draw, the Ganjis win the match. But right now he's getting crushed on the board. We've seen miracles happen.
दानिया क्वीन सैक Queen h1.
But will he find it? No, he goes g2, which is very strong. Sagar, you go with the rook in, but what is the line? He has to give up the queen. Queen takes rook is the only way Leon saves the game. Does he find it? He has to give up the queen. Pick up that queen, take the rook, and the Ganges would have won the match, but he misses it.
He comes back, and now rook f1, game over. He takes, and oh, he blundered.
No, he's, he's claiming. Leon's claiming because he did not complete the move, but he had 1 second. Abhimanyu Mishra had 1 second on the clock.
Yeah.
And without putting the queen on the right square so he doesn't get flagged, Sagar, he pressed the clock and Leon stops it.
And now what will happen, Tanya? Will Abhimanyu be given a loss or will they make him play again? What's going to happen here?
He's going to show, he's going to show what happened right now. Let's just watch.
So the arbiter comes in, he tries to understand what the case is. Abhimanyu says he picked up— oh, they're going to give extra time to Leon, which is fine for Abhimanyu because all that he needs Is to make his move.
He's going to resign. If he didn't get the point because of that claim, he'll just resign because the position's lost for Leon, and we'll see that happen. Extra time doesn't get him anything.
And you can see Leon there; he's smiling. He's like, "Okay, what? What can I do?" This is getting my giving my opponent extra time to even think. And I think Abhimanyu all that he needs now is to just complete his calculation, which he's winning totally, Tanya.
He gets a time penalty, but the position completely winning for Abhimanyu Mishra. And look at the scoreboard on top, 9-8. If he gets the move in, in those 3 seconds, Sagar, if he gets the move in, Abhimanyu, with 3 seconds on the clock, Leon will resign.
And Leon is saying that, by the way, you made the move and got 3 seconds, now you're giving 3 seconds to him. You should give him 1 second. Which then he, Abhimanyu, has to physically make a move while the arbiter—
He doesn't only have to make a move, he has to capture a piece, replace that with his own queen. One second will not be enough.
Is it true? Are we going to witness this? No, wait a second.
Can we have a look at the clock? One second?
One second. One second?
How is he going to make a move in one second?
No, you can't do that. You can't do that. I think Leon is winning.
Leon, if it's one second— Sagar, I've never seen anything. This is unprecedented in chess.
Yeah, and I think this is just complete.
He's getting ready. Let's just watch this.
Off the board action.
And he gets flagged. And he gets flagged. Of course he gets flagged.
Leon wins. Leon wins. Insane is the word. Insane, guys. This is not chess. This is something else. Abhimanyu Mishra is like, "What did I just do?" Good afternoon, everybody.
With the score of 12 against 8, let's give them a big round of applause. I would like to invite both the team captains to sign the results. Meanwhile, I would like to invite you all for the next match, which will start at 5 PM this afternoon.
Can you just explain what happened in the last few seconds and what was the whole confusion Yeah, it was really, it was really—
it was, uh, what happened was I had about 4 seconds, like, or 2-3 seconds, whatever it was, after I played Rook f1, Rook takes f1. I was playing g takes f1, promoting to a queen. Somehow what happened was when I took the— like, when I, when I promoted, I took the queen, I put the queen on the square, but somehow the rook was, rook was still in that area. Somehow the rook and queen were on the board. This did not count as a move, and based on that, I had to retry with 1 second left. And I mean, I just—
It was deemed illegal.
Yeah, and I had to, I had to retry with 1 second left, and 1 second, I thought, I mean, this—
otherwise, okay, this match is just Over Rook f1, gf1.
I saw the entire line. I went with the queen. It's just, I mean, it's quite unfortunate. But it's not really— it's the problem is like the rook and queen were there.
It was not—
the mood wasn't entirely complete. I mean, I was trying to— somehow I was trying to grab the rook and I dropped the— I dropped the rook in that area and somehow it just—
What was Leon saying to you?
I mean, he was apologizing. I mean, because this is not how anyone wants to win a game and it really sucks because if I won this game, we would have won the match as well. Yeah, it was a very dry position earlier and I managed to, I managed to start an attack and I was playing well up to some point and this is just— yeah, it hurts. What can I say?
A word on what happened towards the end of the match. It was all confusing and eventually it came down And you got the win, so how are you feeling?
I mean, personally, I'm not feeling great because I'm playing really badly, but the team did well. Yeah, Leon, I think the confusion was that his opponent made an illegal move and pressed the clock, and basically you have 2 seconds added for each move, so he played the move on 1 second. So they had to remove this 2 seconds from him, and then he tried to promote to a queen in 1 second and he didn't manage. He lost on time.
