Team India in 46th FIDE Chess Olympiad 2026 | Round 1

Hello, hello, hello! Welcome everyone to the Chess Olympia 2026. Let's go! And I have with me Harshit Bhai and Amruta. What a beautiful scene we have here! Bye stream, शुरू हुआ कि नहीं?

Bye.

After a lot of I think it started. Guys, let's go.

Let's go. We are live.

We have and already four hundred people are there. They were waiting.

Amruta, this is the biggest event that we see besides the world championship match. Last time हम जब आए थे सागर बाई, we were in Budapest, Amruta. And we won both gold medals in men and in women section. This time, again, I think we have a very good chance.

Hi, look at this! What we have full screen, like everyone can see the playing hall. Guys, today it is possible that the round will start a little late. Ah, क्योंकि अगर आप देख सकते हो तो इतना बड़ा tournament where there are more than four hundred teams participating. Four hundred teams that is close to sixty.

Wow, so that means that there are going to be a lot of accompanying persons over here. So Uzbek might be having around 3,000 to 4,000 people with all the delegates and everyone.

Yeah, and by the way, there is going to be, uh, Gukesh playing today. Uh, there is going to be Arjun playing, there is going to be Nihal Sarin playing, and, uh, there is going to be Vidit playing. As Prag has decided to take some rest in round number one, he is playing board number one for our team. So guys, बहुत ही खतरनाक वाला tournament start होने वाला है आज से। By the way, whom are we playing in the open section?

So in the open section, we are playing Thailand, and in the women's section, we are playing Dominican Republic. We'll tell everything, but first let's tell our viewers. Sorry for being a bit late.

हर्षित भाई का कोई गलती नहीं है। ये बस। अरे हर्षित भाई की वजह से तो late हुए सागर। वो गया था coffee लेने वहाँ पे। नहीं मैं smoothie पीता हूँ। Guys हर्षित भाई was here on time.

अमृता and I came here but our mic broke down। तो जैसे ही हम आए तो mic टूट गया। इसके लिए we have made a stopgap arrangement जिसकी वजह से we are having this। हर्षित भाई ने मस्त लगा दिया है यहाँ पर। तो गाइस हाउ इस द ऑडियो प्लीज लेट मी नो इन द चैट कि ऑडियो इस फाइन सो मजा आ जाएगा सुनके भाई और क्या जगह दी है हमको गाइस वी आर इन अ ब्यूटीफुल स्टूडियो यहाँ पे मेबी एट सम पॉइंट वी कैन शो देम इन द एक्सपो सेंटर एंड जस्ट दस मीटर दूर रोबोट्स खड़े हैं हमारा क्रेजी दे आर डांस Audio is fine. All good, all good. People are saying that's great to know. Thank you so much, guys. And to just show you right now, this is the board. Oh, the Indian boys are here! Let's go! Let's go! Woo! Actually, we are inside the Expo Center and everyone is very quiet, but we are like, let's go!

And everyone is like, भाई क्या हुआ क्या इधर?

By the way, guys, I'm so happy, Sagar bhai, that here हम हमारे style में full commentary कर सकते हैं, भाई हम बैठे तीनों यहाँ पे नाचो गाओ मजे करो and this is our view guys our common view and in this you have the chessboard you have our team here if you shout there is अच्छा got it got it we won't shout guys loud noise हर्षित भाई cannot shout अरे भाई भाई हर्षित भाई excitement only आराम से शांति से बात करना पड़ेगा you have to be very calm and quiet and this will be a different kind of commentary yeah we'll try to get our mic इधर उज्बेकिस्तान में खरीद लेंगे हम mic very soon But आज के लिए, you can see here the Thailand team has just arrived one of the boards and yeah everything is looking great. Should Gukesh have played on a higher board? That's a good question actually. Harshit bhai, maybe while the rounds are about to begin and there is a fifteen minute lag, right? Like they have fifteen minute क्या बोलते हैं उसको delay delay. Because they want anti-cheating measures. Let's tell our viewers on the various things that they should know about this tournament. क्योंकि this tournament firstly guys is a very very amazing one. As you can see, this is what we have here. This is Team India men and women team. An amazing team. We are proud to have such amazing players playing for our country.

You know. We have, uh, one change in the open section compared to the last time. As we see, Nihal Sarin joins our team. The last time we had Pentala Harikrishna in our team, but a very strong team. Uh, Gukesh, the world champion, is playing for us. Prag, uh, playing Arjun and Vidit. And in the women's section, we have 2 changes, right?

Harika is not playing.

Harika is not playing, but Hampi is playing as she did not play last time. And we have a change As Savita Shri joins in for Tanya.

Oh yes, Tanya is not here. We miss her a lot, but she will be commentating on this tournament—not on our channel. She will be doing it on chess.com and Chesscom India. So do check her out.

Feeling bad for Thailand players. अरे भाई रुक जाओ भाई। तो भाई इतना भी मैच शुरू नहीं हुआ है अब तक भाई। आराम से। And guys, one huge announcement: this tournament we are supported by Neuro.

So there will be Neuro focus moves of the day and a big thank you to Neuro because of them we are able to be here and you know we've spent a lot coming here traveling staying and so on. So thanks to them for supporting. So in between we will be talking a bit about them and then this is the open team board order. भाई open team का जो board order है क्या ही बताएँ भाई हर्षित भाई थोड़ा बताइए Came up, came as a surprise.

Well, Prag is playing on board one. I think सबने ये expect किया था। If there was any board जो confirmed था, I think it was the board of Prag. He's been playing so good. Arjun on board two. I think that is also you know expected. But we have a surprise because Nihal Sarin actually takes board number three, and that puts Gukesh on board number four. And While according to the rating, this is how the team lineup should be. Vidit playing on board five, the reserve board. क्योंकि चार boards खेलते हैं। I just felt like maybe Gukesh might not have been ready to play on board four, but I think it shows a lot of maturity for him to accept that you know he will play on the board which is best for the team. So I am personally very happy to see this lineup, which gives India perhaps the best chances.

Of course. Yeah, actually this is the first time ever since the inception of the Olympiad and a fixed board order that a reigning world champion is not on board one. That's how big this is, Harshit bhai. Yeah, it's so huge.

कि भाई पहली बार हुआ है ऐसा। पहली बार the world champion is playing on board four. Guys, two thousand of you watching. Do like this video. अरे like करो पट्टा पड़ेगा। थोड़े ही दिनों थोड़े मिनटों में हमको दिखने वाले सारे प्लेयर्स इन एक्शन। I'm personally really really looking forward to see how Gokesh will play on board four. Because you know why I say this? Because playing on board four also has a lot of responsibility.

Oh, and Gokesh is there in the background. भाई, चिल्लाने का नहीं, चिल्लाने का नहीं। धीरे-धीरे मैं एक्साइटमेंट। धीरे-धीरे मैं ऐसा ऐसा एक्साइटमेंट क्या कहलो? Only two thousand watching. नहीं नित्या जैन, it's starting off now. It's going. It's going to go till twenty thousand people. I'm pretty sure. Not today, but as the rounds go by, more and more people will join in. And there we see Nihal Sarin there. And Harshit bhai, look at this. You can here look at how many people are flowing in to this beautiful venue. And we also have Our first member of the stream, Manish Sharma ji. Thank you so much. Let's go for becoming a backer of Indian chess, guys.

Like regarding the audio, do you think it's better if I keep my audio in front of me, or is this better?

I think by this is fine. If there is any problem, they will be the first ones to tell us. Okay. If there is any issue, so. And also, I think people please give us feedback. We are here at a new place, new venue, new everything. We've set it up. Thanks! A big big shout out to two people: Saurabh Bhai from Nordwin Gaming and Vivek Bhai from our team who have helped us tremendously to set up this entire thing. And Harshit Bhai, going back to the board order. As we spoke about Gukesh being on board four, let's see how he performs. Right? It's a big thing. But there was also a small question on who would take the women board one, two, and three. And it has been determined Humpy has taken board one.

Okay. And I think that makes sense.

Right? Because that was expected for me. But Vaishali taking board two and Divya board three was a question. कि वेदर वेदर दिव्या because she's the higher rated player. Whether she would take board 2.

I think, you know, for me, in some ways, this was actually logical, and I'll tell you why. Because this reminds me of how Arjun took board number 3 the last time we played in the Olympiad. Even though he was higher rated, it just felt like he's someone who's a heavy hitter, correct? And Divya is someone who can defeat these lower rated players, uh, quite, quite well. So I think it's nice to have Vaishali there. And here we see she's already there with some smiles on her faces.

Blurred. Amruta, maybe we can tell Men, our broad camera team here that women board three Indian team is slightly blurred. They will fix it. No, ours is fine. This is very clear that we have here. So this is not an issue.

We have another member by the way, Ayush Parija.

Hi, क्या बात है? Let's go. So in the women section, they will fix it, guys. Like we have a very clear camera. Look at Gukesh bhai. Gukesh is here and Nihal is here. Vidit bhai is there.

By the way, Gukesh playing on board number three today because Prag on board one has taken some rest. So every player gets moved one board ahead. Nihal Sarin playing on board number two. Where is the boy Praghu?

Yeah, today Prag is taking rest day, bhai. Arjun will come. Exactly, Arjun bhai will come and he's going to play, uh, Prin Lahawira Papp, who is there. He is the only IM of Thailand. That's insane. And our boys are here, guys.

So we have only one camera. We have also Adi bhai there.

Oh, Aditya is there?

Yes. Right there.

Can't see him, but we have only one camera of this because there are, uh, you know, bullet cams. Harshit bhai, look at this. These are the bullet cams we have. What does bullet cam mean? No, sorry. So this is table 1, this is Nodirbek, and this is table 2. So bullet cams are this one that we have actually for like this, you see. ऐसे views, but these are only for the top two boards. And because India is on board three, Uzbekistan has a fixed board. There is only one camera for today. We will request them to have more cameras, so that would that would be amazing.

By the way, I think we should also remind everyone about the time format. Oh, I have.

By the way, let's go through the format properly because that is very important to know, right? कि forty moves बाद increment है क्या नहीं तो पूरा फॉर्मेट को बता सकते हैं, but just so that you know, this is the playing hall. बहुत ही सुंदर. Too good guys. Too good. And by the way, Limzy Roshan, thank you for becoming backer of Indian chess and Jay Thakkar has sent a super chat. हाँ। भाई पढ़ो भाई। ये देखने के लिए दादी बीमार है कल के करके work from home ले लिया। अरे अरे ऐसे मत करो भाई। And this is the Indian team who came in, our amazing players. This is the women team, the top five boards, and the men team five boards, amazing players. And this is the schedule of the tournament. So we have six rounds, then a rest day, and then five rounds. भाई what happens on the rest day? भाई I think you will take rest for sure on rest day. कुछ बर्मुडा पार्टी वगैरह कुछ नहीं है यहाँ पे। and then the format, please tell about.

so we have eleven rounds in this tournament and for players we already know कि चार boards रहते हैं and one player is reserved. so whenever someone is not in good shape or not feeling well, the fifth player can you know replace him and the time control this is very very important it's 90 minutes plus 30 seconds, or 40 moves के बाद they are also going to get this additional time of 30 minutes. Also a very important thing here, Sagar bhai, is that 30 moves के पहले you cannot agree for a draw.

Wow, that's very interesting, Harshit bhai. So very important this, and you can see here the the time control, no draw before 30 moves. And then we have the scoring system. If any team wins this match with 2.5-1.5 or 3-1 or whatever score, then they get 2 points for the match victory. And otherwise, if it's a 2-2 draw, then 1-1 is split. Otherwise, the losing team gets 0 points.

Yeah, and I think the last time the Indian team did not even lose a single match, which was, uh, which is incredible. This just shows like how well we played last time. There is some changes, guys. You know the team is almost the same, but of course the form is different. People come with different mindsets. Also, by your hairstyle is different.

अरे भाई! And by the way, guys, today's shirt is dedicated to that one special individual who has always been the soul of chess streaming, has helped tremendously, has been someone I am really, really very close with. So.

Those who know, know it. If you know, you know.

If you know, if you know. If you know, you know, bye. Bye. ठीक है, ठीक है। Let's go on to our few more details that we want to share about this tournament. Game started? नहीं, नहीं। No, guys. We have the board in front of us. Don't lie. What's at stake? So by the way, Harshit bhai, people think only medals are at stake, but there is the Hamilton Russell Cup. Really? Yes. This is the team trophy. To the team with most match points in the open section, Hamilton Russell Cup. Vera Menchik goes to the women's team, and the Nona Gaprinda Shvili is the joint with both open and women tour. Both who do well, they get the Nona Gaprinda Shvili Cup. You also didn't know, right?

I didn't know this.

By the way, we do have kickoff. Let's go! Let's go!

India defending a double. Yes, guys. It started. It started, and we are just going to get.

Bye. It's on the board right now. People can see it. Oh, aren't you fine?

Bye. एक बार हो जाए। Gandhi Vam. Let's go, guys. Gandhi Vam starting. Hi.

Look at Saptarshi says mark my words. Gukesh will redeem himself and gain a couple of dozen Elos. By couple of dozen, मतलब 24 Elo point and clear the air about his immense potential. क्या लगता है आपको? Do you agree?

I I wish that this happens. You know, I wish this happens. Won't be easy in a in this in this event, but I think India needs him. India is really backing and relying on banking on him banking on Gukesh to do well in this tournament. भाई लुक एट व्हाट अर्जुन हैज़ डन अर्जुन ने पहले ही मूव पे थर्ड मूव पे ही गोज़ ई थ्री क्लोजेस डाउन इस बिशप आई एम नॉट अ वेरी बिग फैन ऑफ़ दिस मूव व्हाट डू यू थिंक सो यू नो आई नो अर्जुन वेरी वेल एंड ही इज़ सो कॉन्फिडेंट अगेंस्ट दिस 2300-2400 प्लेयर्स भाई बिकॉज E four knight to f six against me, and he won by. Alex Hein.

Alex Hein. Do you think now his confidence must be less with you because you have reached twenty five hundred?

He he will take risks, but maybe not. I mean, I mean he will take risks, but maybe flexing. Flexing नहीं भाई. भाई is much much stronger भाई. By the way, we have more moves on the board. So he played e three c five.

एक मिनट भाई. Sorry भाई. Just make sure that we are ऐसे थोड़ा tight in the frame. Yeah, nice. Okay, a black played c5.

Yes, and here white goes c3. And I'll tell you Arjun's strategy. Arjun is one of the best semi-Slav players with the black pieces. Oh, and what he is doing here after e6, knight d2, is saying that look, I am playing the Slav opening but with an extra move for me. And I think he's going to be very happy with this.

So he's just playing like black with white.

Exactly. Okay, the mover.

With a move up, so he has a nice position. Guys, in the chat, what who is your favorite player that you are looking forward to watching in the Indian team?

Guys, and we have a very nice message by Anu Dravid. She says, "Hey, Anu Dravid, so nice to see you after a long time." She says, "Yesterday went to the Dagadushet Ganpati Darshan and gave blessings for India's win in the Olympics." Oh, crazy!

Let's go. I Toran likha apne blessing par.

I didn't know what Tor like.

तोरन इस लाइक द गार्लेंड भाई हाँ बट इसके लिए आपने कुछ भी अपने दिमाग से बना लिया नहीं मतलब सेम ही हुआ ना मतलब प्रेयर्स बेसिकली लेट्स सी व्हाट पीपल आर सेइंग विदित प्रग अर्जुन निहाल प्रग अरे लेट्स गो पीपल आर लुकिंग फॉरवर्ड तू मेनी मेनी प्लेयर्स प्रग टुडे इस टेकिंग रेस्ट डे वन ट Uh, and let's go now to board number 2, Harshit bhai. Okay, we have Nihal Sarin playing here. He's playing with the black pieces, right?

By the way, just, uh, like one important thing to— for everyone to note, compared to the last event we were commentating in, in Global Chess League, in one team every player had the same piece, like either white or black. But in the Olympiad You have alternate white, black, white, black, or black, white, black, white. So we have white on board number one and board number three, and black on board two and board four.

Correct. And but by the amazing thing about our broadcast is thanks to Rakshit bhai, we have managed to put the bars in same color. Let's go. So that everyone can know कि हाँ भाई Indians are white on board one. Right?

Is it correct? Correct. It's right.

तो सारे पे white है और women में भी I think we are white. So if the white goes this way, it means India is winning. So we didn't do this color. So big shout out to Rakshit bhai who has always been helping. उन्होंने अपना board का भी जो layout है हर्षित बाई, he has improved वो देखो clock walk बड़ा करके. Too good. भाई I mean. भाई it is like अपना एक broadcast के लिए सौरभ बाई, विवेक बाई, रक्षित बाई so many people are helping us. Yeah.

So it's incredible, भाई बहुत मजा आ रहा है and guys of course because of you we are enjoying it even more because you guys are joining giving us this positive energy so हम कोई नहीं players को भी energy जानी चाहिए भाई and Harshit भाई we have to do the neuro focus moves moment of the day okay मतलब कोई ऐसा moment जहाँ पे कोई player focus से बढ़िया move निकालता है got it we have to mark that out done ठीक है done भूलना मत bye sports crazy saying waiting for सागर शाह's craziness at the बर्मुडा पार्टी आएगा दोस्तों पांच-छः दिन बाद आएगा अभी नहीं रुको जरा wait for it let's go to the game of the world champion गुकेश so गुकेश opens with d four just like अर्जुन and opponent अलरियामी फनीज़ रशीद who is nineteen hundred by the way eight hundred point rating difference And I think in Olympiad, it's it's also a great opportunity for these teams to play against such strong players, right? Hmm. Like where else can you play against World Championship Gukesh? You can never play against Gukesh.

True, true. And I think that's what makes Olympiad very very special that people can play here against anyone. And so right now, E six, Knight F three by Gukesh, B six.

G three, G three. Going for some sort of a Catalan opening.

यहाँ पे bishop को डाल के ये attack and he goes bishop a six and Gukesh is in thought mode. You can see Gukesh there in the background and he's looking at the other boards.

Is it? It feels as if he's looking at the other boards.

He's trying to get inspiration from other boards.

Why? Why? You know, Gukesh maybe in open events or individual events like maybe he didn't have the best performance, but I do think I also do agree with one of the comments. But because it's a team event, I think he will find new energy to get back his shape.

Yeah, I think Mukesh has always done well in team events, right, Harshit bhai?

Yeah. I mean, the last time we played in Budapest, he was one of the biggest contributors for the Indian team on board 1, guys. Let's not forget that, you know, he has been— even though he has had some sort of a shaky form right now, in 2024, he was one of the biggest reasons Because to get her gold medal, right?

And Harshit bhai, a lot of people have been talking about the room allotment for Team India. Okay. So maybe we can address this and so that people can know what has happened. A very important update is that the Uzbek team के जो main person है अलीशेर सदुलाइएफ हाँ He actually met up with, uh, Abhijit Kunte and Srinath.

Okay.

And he actually solved all their problems. That is how I know. And maybe today, later in the day, we might have him on our stream to discuss about this, that what has happened and what are the things they are doing. Uh, so just so that people know that Indian team has got their rooms. And things are looking improving for sure. So let's just show this. This is the picture of the man who is the vice president of the organizing of the Uzbekistan Chess Federation. He met with Abhijit Kunte and Srinath today early in the morning. They discussed, and I also wrote to Srinath and got his thoughts if everything was fine, and he said it's all good.

Amazing. Yeah. Guys, थोड़े first day में problems होते हैं but it's important to not let that affect us too much because this is going to be a long event. Eleven rounds का two week long event and the quicker we can forget these things better for the Indian team and finally we want whatever is best for the Indian team. Correct, correct.

Vamos! Oh by the way people are saying lovely wall art so this by the way is a knight here and a big big shout out to the FIDE. Team who has given us this lounge in the FIDE area so that we can do the live stream. So people are just moving all around us, and we are streaming live from here.

Yeah.

Okay. So by the way, when Gukesh played Bishop A6, he played D3, B3, protecting the pawn, and very quickly came the move D5, striking in the center.

And even though Black is attacking upon Gukesh, is like take. Like I dare you to take the pawn on c four. Goes bishop to g two.

Now a question to our viewers. Yes, tell me. If pawn takes pawn, what is the best move for white? White to play. What do you do here? Let's see if our viewers are into chess. Yes, and we'll also go to the women's section next in a bit. But first let us know. And Harshit bhai, कितने like हैं?

Guys, like करो यार फटाफट. Four point four thousand of you watching. Let's give all our support possible to the Indian team. And yes, we have Piyush, we have Anush Goyal, Vinitha, we have Brainhev, we have Barser, Sapayanti, Mundia, everyone finding Manak Knight to e5.

Yes, crazy move attacking this, and actually there's no real good way to defend. If you play Knight d5 I will now take b takes c four with my knight defending the pawn. You can no longer take this and this pin here. So this is not working.

So black goes, black goes check. Bishop to b four check. By the way, I love this comment by Vinod. Harshit bhai, I feel Gukesh is going in a perform in this Olympic like Steph Curry in semifinals against Serbia. And Steph Curry just went god mode. Steph Curry is a basketball player who is a very good three pointer shooter. So we have another question. What is common between Samarkand organizers and Jasprit Bumrah bowling outside of stump?

अरे भाई अक्षय नाथू back with his amazing jokes and पहले शायरी करते थे, now he is doing all the jokes. Let's go, very cool.

Oh boy!

And Bishop D2 played here. Yeah. And this is the move.

Let's go to Vidit Y. Okay.

This is the fourth board. Vidit is playing with the black pieces. Yeah. So D4, Knight F6, C4, E6, Knight C3, Nimzo Indian. And Vidit is playing 2000 rated player. E three. It's funny that Mukesh got a lower rated player on third board and Vidit got a higher rated player on board four.

Yeah, so I think these players are also shuffling with their. They are like भाई ये इसको world champion से खिलाते हैं आपको। B six, knight f three and knight to e four. Okay, so you can see Vidit is like kind of play trying to change the character of the position already having a threat as you explained कि knight c three का Is under pressure, and you know, I think Black would love to play f5 and just create dynamic chances. He doesn't want to be solid. You keep starting, Missagar, by you don't want to lose any board points, right? Because in the end of the event, these board points oh true will be very important.

And also when these teams are getting very strong, like Uzbekistan, USA, China, then many times matches could end in two-two, and then their match points could be the same. The game points will matter. Exactly.

तो भाई full on जाना है। Full चारों के चारों games जीतने ही है starting से लेकिन we don't want any setbacks there. So Indian team, the open team seems like everyone is on offer decent opening. Good start.

Let's go to the women's board. Yeah. Should we go there? And Amruta is coming in. Yes, Amruta. No no.

So the camera was knocked knocked out kind of the women's board. That's why it got blurred. And now I think they've adjusted, so you can just check once.

It'll take them some fifteen minutes, right?

But but for now they have adjusted some with some tilted. Not yet there. Okay, got it.

Because you can see like it's dark here while this wow what a view!

Oh oh that's amazing. Original. I see you know what Nihal also this third board and the first time such a big pressure in a way. I don't know, Sagar, how he is feeling here. Like GCL was definitely last moment a bit heartbreaking for him. So what do you think he has his mindset is like?

I think Nihal is very happy to be here. पहली बार मैंने उसको एकदम shirt word में देखा है। Like he's come fully prepared dressed up because Nihal is that guy who doesn't really care what he wears and all. He's just fully into chess. So I love it. I love these four youngsters who are playing. With it, slightly older of the lot, but very, very you know he's young at heart. He is like this guy who always says no, no. As compared to all these players, he is ten years older, Ambudha. Even twelve than over Gukesh. So in some ways, I do feel that this is a great team with with it. You know having that kind of the elder brother role in the team. Saying like, guys, room नहीं मिला मैं tweet करता हूँ। Exactly. I will not let you guys suffer.

In some ways, in some ways, I do think that Vidit kind of stabilizes the team because yes, he is on the reserve board but whenever needed he can come and just make sure that he can you know be either super solid or even you know press.

Don't you think in 2022 he was on board one, right? In Chennai. Chennai for the A team he was on board one. Oh wow! Yeah. So from board one he went.

No, Bukesh was on board one.

No, but Bukesh was B team. Ah, correct. A team का board one was Vidit. Oh wow! If I'm not mistaken. And then in 2024 he went to board four and now he's in reserve board. That just shows Indian chess how it's growing. Great. But at the same time, Vidit's experience is huge.

Absolutely. And I think he will be uniting everyone. They'll be all. One thing I really like about them: everybody traveled in the same flight. They were all together and the bonding is very very nice.

Yes, absolutely. I love that bonding of the team. Harshit bhai was also there. No, you are not there in the flight. Harshit bhai missed it. Why? Harshit bhai.

Harshit bhai had other bonding.

Guys, here is a huge news about Harshit bhai. He is the only Indian who came to this tournament without a visa. एक एक लौटा and he said that there is a dialogue between the Indian Prime Minister. And the Uzbek president, and in that he read and came that already without visa you can enter. So Harshit bhai, congrats! Let's go. He showed like look at this. This is what did you read, bhai?

So bhai, वो decree रहता है president's decree. So if you have a visa from Schengen country or America, then you don't need a visa to come to Uzbekistan. And you know this happened after Modi. Like Modi ji gave the score sheet of Sindarov of his final game in the World Cup to the Uzbek president. Wow! So उसके बाद उनको इतना खुशी हुआ कि visa free.

Amazing. Amruta, you had some score sheets. Did you bring them here? No, no.

They are world championship actually.

अच्छा world champ पहले ओलंपियाड बोली थी। अभी world championship के लिए रखी थी। World championship की score sheet है तेरे पास?

No, no, no, no. I'll keep it for world.

She has now Sindarov score sheet from candidates. She has and she said in Olympiad we will do a giveaway, do like fundraiser for help chess with it.

But now I was not sure Olympiad or World Championship.

चुपा क्या रखा है?

If we are so all over yeah but otherwise I think in World Championship we'll be having a fundraiser with those score sheets guys so wait for it it's gonna be legendary. Absolutely.

Okay अरे भाई ये साइड के भाई मेरे को नहीं लगता है इतना legendary but ठीक है अमृता बोल रही है तो होगा let's Let's go to the women's. Let's go, let's go. Hi, don't look at me. Look that side. Guys, this is this is our stopgap arrangement. These mics, but I think they are working quite well. Let's go to the women's board because we have Conero Humpy who is playing with the white pieces and no. Camera here that we have, so maybe we can keep the men's board camera and see the game. Knight f3 because you know whenever something is fixed because there's a fifteen minute delay it might take some time for the camera to come back. c5 c4 knight f6 knight c3 and g6 played here by Ramirez Luzon Francesca. This is India versus Dominican Republic.

Yes, and I think, uh, Hampi going for a very slow and solid approach. She wants to play a long game to out— the thing is, when you are playing someone weaker than you, you want the game to go as long as possible.

I think there is some issue. The board has not been changed.

Let me just Got it, guys. Let me let me fix that. हाँ बोलो भाई. किशले how are you doing, buddy? When you coming to Saint Louis? I think Sagar bhai when was the last time you were there? During this clutch match, right? And I am hoping to come there very soon. It's been some time since I have been to Saint Louis. They have just made a new studio and a playing hall for the club. So hoping to come there very, very soon. By the way, we also have some drones flying on top.

अच्छा। Guys, just making sure that the board is.

Guys, Sagar Sagar भाई का एक best रहता है। जब भी he is doing something and you say something that he doesn't listen to, he's like अच्छा। Okay.

By this I learned by interacting with Amruta a little bit.

Oh my!

अरे भाई। Guys, Sagar bhai is just trying to get the cameras of the women's team here.

By the way, everyone keep the chat positive. Share good comments, interesting facts, and so on. So that towards the end of the Olympiad, we plan to make a few of you new mods. It's been some while. Oh wow! Since we have made mods. So let's do that.

So that's a very, very nice way to get involved with the ChessBase India channel. If you send nice and positive messages, Amrita will be choosing some of you to become moderators. Let's go.

Harshit bhai will choose two people.

All good, all good. We're just looking at another view here.

By the way, do we have one result of the entire team? Really? We'll check.

And guys, this is the view of the local host team, that is Uzbekistan, and you can see them here, uh, playing in On this board, and we are just trying to get the board sorted. So what I had done is I had shared only a tab, Harshit bhai. Okay. I should have shared a window, so that is being fixed right now.

Okay.

Okay, Prag, guys, is playing in this tournament. He's actually the board one for the Indian team, but for today he has taken some rest.

Oh, Chess with Akeem is playing against Yakubov. Oh wow, that is for sure something that we should— so there will be some video coming out, right?

Chess with Akeem, guys, if you Follow his content. Makes very cool reels on Instagram. Is taking on Yakubo if not there yet. Yeah, he's right there in the yellow shirt. By the way. Indian are playing on, as you can see here, Vidit and Nihal Sarin on the board, playing on team board number 2. And Sagar bhai is just going to make sure everything is Uh, with the stream is going well.

A lot of, um, what to say, Nimzo Indians are going to happen, it seems.

So I don't know if we have the—

We don't have the board yet. But, uh, Harshit bhai, how do you right now on day 1 find, you know, Budapest? You have been there. You've been— this is your second Olympiad, right?

This is my, well, third, because in Chennai I was— this was my first time. That I met, you know, you guys on stream. So this is my third Olympiad actually.

Wow, that's huge! Also, Samay was there in Chennai Olympiad at the venue, and full time he was commentating. So yeah, very very different days those were.

Yeah, I think what I've seen in Uzbekistan is that they have a lot of passion. Too good. I think the you know inside the play playing hall, the players do have the best conditions to give their best. Amruta, it's going to be very exciting, especially towards the end. जब ये ऐसे बड़े matches होंगे, let's say India versus Uzbekistan, India versus USA, India versus China. ये matches में जो craziness होने वाला है क्योंकि हर board का मतलब मुकाबला क्लोज होगा। I completely agree with you इस बार.

In fact, India versus Uzbekistan would be super thrilling also because of the world championship which is upcoming in November. So that's the reason. And यहाँ पे you know I'm just wondering Harshit bhai, the moves are going pretty slow. Like it seems like first round people are settling in थोड़ा सा you know they are feeling the vibe. And I did think that the game बहुत late शुरू होगा क्योंकि कैसे करेंगे इतना सब manage?

But ऐसा कुछ भी नहीं है यार। Two thousand players here, two thousand almost players playing in this tournament. I think you know as you talked about players getting in form and shape, Gukesh right now is not on his board but I think for him this is a very very important starting few rounds अंबुता। We want Gukesh to win his starting three four games. Get this feeling of winning. You know, once you taste this feeling of winning some games, I think Bukesh is someone who can play with momentum, and that would be very important for them.

Yeah, that's a good point. I think the beginning does matter a lot over here, and I think if he has got enough rest, one of the advantages in Olympiads is it's not very difficult opponents in the beginning rounds for the players. Correct.

I think in the starting few rounds we play against much lower rated teams, so the players can try to win four zero four zero. We are going to try to get the boards as we see Gukesh finally comes back on the board, takes his seat. अभी वो fix कर रहे हैं। But is this the main or this? No, this one. And oh wow!

Oh, भाई आपने जैसे ही गुकेश का नाम लिया and look at अभ्युदया there. Oh crazy!

Yeah we are five people from Chess India team over here. We have Harshit भाई, अभ्युदया and Himank. It's his first Olympia.

And you and Sagar भाई as well. Absolutely. By the way गुकेश completely focused. अरे बढ़िया ये view से गुकेश को तो देखने को मजा आ रहा है। How how is the chat feeling it?

Like what are they saying? What is their you know overall day?

They are actually wondering what happened in the game of Pakistan. Pakistan नहीं खेल रहे भाई आज नहीं खेल रहे today.

Okay, I don't know.

I don't know if they are playing in this tournament. Uh huh.

Actually some of the people did face any visa issues because I think that is a possibility.

Yeah, there was some visa issues, Ambuta, but I don't know if that has been sorted or not. Meanwhile, now we are able to slowly get the chessboard in. Okay, हो जाएगा। Guys, it will be done very quickly. But this view which we are able to see is so nice. Maybe we'll get a chessboard here as well.

तो बढ़िया हो जाएगा। तब तक सिर्फ इतना बताओ, how do you find this place? अगर are you feeling settled in?

I'm feeling very excited. आपको हर्षित भाई?

I'm also very excited. Like especially guys, Olympic में क्या होता है? Starting में opening slightly मतलब slow रहते हैं, पर फिर बाद में जो excitement build होता है middle game में वगैरह, क्योंकि हर board को दूसरे boards में क्या हो रहा है वो भी देखना पड़ता है। So और last time especially हमने जो crazy performance किया था double gold का and the Energy and the positivity, the luck that people give through the chat. Guys, you won't like. I actually do think that the energy and positivity the chat gives is very important, right? Because in some ways the players can feel it through messages, through just you know the energy and manifestation. So guys, पूरे wishes हमारे दोनों team को medal के लिए रहने चाहिए. Hundred percent.

Hi, we are slowly and steadily moving into all the games. And Vidit Pai कैसे लग रहा है? एकदम focused लग रहा है ना?

Why? I was I was so like you know happy and surprised to see Vidit play so well in the Global Chess League. Right. He had a fantastic performance.

Yeah, Vidit has done incredibly well. And by the way. We are right now seeing. Please explain the position and talk about game, guys. Very quickly we will get the boards in so that you can see them properly. And we also have by chess with Akim here, right? Yes. यही है ना बंदा? हाँ, यही है भाई। यही है। एक मिनट दिखा सकते हैं भाई एक बार लोगों को। Oops sorry. Oh, and Vidit saying yes to ah. You know who is the captain of the Thailand team? Is Alexander Sulipa. अच्छा. He is a very good coach of Ukraine from Ukraine.

As you can see, Gukesh gets up from his chair.

Also, there are a lot of improvements, you know, which have been tried to be made over here. रक्षित हस मेड सुंदर लीचेस, then we have शितज़ who has made something very interesting which will show us the medal probability and so on which will matter a lot you know as the games progress over there in generally. So we have definitely tried to improve the stream in many ways. Day one is always challenging but I think this has still been been a good day one हर्षित भाई.

Oh, for sure. You know, like in terms of the openings which we will come to, I think it's it's been quite good for the Indian players. But I'm going to ask a question.

Okay, but पांच हज़ार लोग did you imagine? I say in the very beginning, like game is not even got into time pressure.

This is the biggest event of the entire you know two years that we have. The Olympiad for sure has You know, especially now that we have won, we are the defending champions. लोगों को देखना है कि can we defend it again?

That's true, yeah. And it's but it's always a pressure for the people also.

क्या तो the tournament में कैमरा में एक बार देख के बता दे कि कितने medals और क्या medal मिलेंगे हमारी team को?

I think defending the title is going to be not easy for sure.

हाँ नहीं नहीं वो सब.

But one gold medal I will say.

One gold will defend. Yes, and which which which like in the open or in the women's?

Right now I can't say that, but I'm guessing open में gold medal and women में I'm guessing a silver medal. What about you, Harshit bhai? You heard it here.

This is Amruta's prediction. देखते हैं क्या होता है?

पर आप बताओ। ऐसे नहीं कर सकता। ऐसे नहीं कर सकता। देखो Harshit bhai changing last moment, putting people on the spot. That's his स्पेशलिटी देर मेबी टू अर्ली तू से बट 2024 कवरेज भाई कवरेज तो अभी चालू हो रहा है ये तो मतलब इट जस्ट द बिगिनिंग ईयर लॉट्स ऑफ़ थिंग्स द एक्सपो इज़ ब्रिलिएंट वन डे वी विल गिव यू अ होल टूर ऑफ़ एवरीथिंग विच इज़ देर आई मीन देर इज़ अ ट्री वेर द चेस पीसेस आर हैंग For sure, and I am also personally curious to take you guys through all of the games and the updates of the women games.

And look whom we have!

We have all the best to the team India, and that is Nikita Gujarati. That is with its family, with its home. Oh my goodness! That's so nice. Wow! Thank you so much. All the relatives might be watching the games. In fact, of the players and. Obviously, it's for them tense situation from day one. GCL से directly सब लोग यहाँ पे आ गए हैं। One thing is there for all the three people. It has been quite hectic over here. Nihal and Arjun and Vidit who are right now playing, they have come directly from Bangalore. So काफी hectic है.

And By far the most exciting tournament on the calendar.

Yes. Yeah, actually, na, everything is back to back going to be very exciting. This is one tournament, then there's going to be Total Chess, then there is going to be World Championship in November. So overall we are having, and then World Rapid. And let's, so if we see from September, the calendar is extremely, uh, you know, hectic and fast and all important. FIDE events. So by the way, are we able to bring in the boards or not yet? No, not yet. But we do have our players who are not on the chair. Harshit bhai, generally what do you think if we do not have the players on the chair? Is it a good thing or a bad thing?

I think it shows confidence. I think, uh, the, like, the players not being on the chair kind of, uh, say It kind of gives this storyline that, you know, I am so happy about my position that I'm just going to take a walk and look at the other boards. Or this can also mean that the players just want to relax themselves. Sometimes being at the board can make you very nervous, and just walking during the game can kind of, you know, make it a bit easier for you to handle that pressure. And I think that's why people like to walk. For example, I love to walk during the game, and I'm not just walking, but I'm also thinking about the game when I'm walking. So, I think this is the approach players have.

So, so our players are relaxing and they are confident. That's what Harshit is saying. And you know, of course there are more than 400 people, 400 teams happening there. So, it's a both tempting रहेगा ना to get up from the board, to look at everybody's games, also to meet so many people from so many countries. You can't do that. बर्मुड़ा पार्टी में है, मतलब थोड़ा टाइम रहता है. बट पता नहीं नॉट ऑल द प्लेयर्स विजिट द बर्मुडा पार्टी आल्सो आल्सो हर्षित भाई सबके ड्रेसेस देखो ना उनका कल्चर वो लेके आए इट्स नॉट जस्ट एन ओलंपियाड इट्स अ प्लेस वेर पीपल हैव ऑल दिस कल्चर ओवर योर जो देखने को क्या ही मजा आता है सागर डेफिनेटली राइट एंड नाउ वी हैव द बोर्ड टाइटल प्लेयर जैसे एनालिसिस करो, डोंट केयर वेदर द पीपल विल अंडरस्टैंड और नॉट सागर। लेट्स गो। ओके सॉरी फॉर स्मॉल डिले विद दैट, बट वी आल्सो हैव नाउ द विमेन्स। ओह लेट्स गो। और इयर आई थिंक दैट इस सम इश्यू स्टिल विद द कैमरा, बट वी डू हैव हंपी, विच वी वर गोइंग Her opponent has played d5, and this is the live board position that we have.

And I think it's a it's a slow start. I'm sure both players have played this position. Hampi taking her time in the opening. Some ways, white के पास ये idea मुझे बहुत पसंद है भाई. Harry to h4 and Harry to h5, just getting some space there. So so this Hampi's game looks good. Let's go to board number two. Vaishali's board. To see how she is doing there, and Vaishali playing with the black pieces here. It started again by both the men and the women's team playing. Yeah, only Nimzo openings happening. Bishop g five, c five.

Oh, and Harshit bhai, I know one small trap here. I don't know, Vaishali, why didn't she play? But I think it doesn't work. Queen a five is what I was thinking.

Bye. It's a nice move if you play. Why?

Because the thing is, my threat is here, and if you just protect this, my knight jumps in. So it's actually a very logical move. And the problem is that take, take. I think with a check I am getting this. But after knight d two and gf six, this position is better for white.

Wow! That's by crazy that you knew all of this.

But this is something that I used to try, but then. Someone, someone told me that this is not so good.

So this is, uh, this is the reason why Vaishali played the move b6. Yes, after pawn to e3. Vaishali being the world championship challenger, we have in, in both our teams, we have one world championship, uh, current world champion, and we have a potential new world champion on a team. But Vaishali making a small mistake.

Huge mistake actually, but her opponent did not take full advantage of it. You know what was the best move? Let's ask our viewers. After takes, takes, white to play. What is the best move in this position?

This is a huge scare early on for the women's team.

Yeah, Vaishali wasn't focused here. She was a bit too quick to make her move. But now you're white to move. Find the best move. Let's see if people are able to spot this.

Yes, a lot of them. Oh, knight e four found by Mohan Chess Suresh, Pradeep Kumar, Struggler Rahul, Ronak Prakash. Exactly, guys. Knight to e four. Hitting the black queen on f6, or a girl, you take the knight with the bishop. Then after bishop takes, you lose the rook on a8. And Vaishali was lucky that—

But the main point is queen e7, Harshit bhai. The bishop now is a bit misplaced, and after a3, bishop a5, this bishop can potentially get trapped.

Yeah, exactly. So Vaishali was slightly lucky that her opponent didn't see this, but her opponent is also not super strong.

1700, you can't afford to make mistakes against strong players like this.

Against 1700, 1800, they may miss such opportunities, but you want to make sure that you're in a very good shape starting the tournament, right?

This already feels like Vaishali is making some— she's not like making the best moves, correct?

Yeah, exactly. So bishop to h4 played by Vaishali. She is now doing quite okay on her board. Let's go and take a look on Vantika's board. Perhaps she is playing on board number three. She is playing with the white pieces against Gonzalez Mariloli. d4 d5 knight f3 knight f6. Vantika playing the same line as Arjun, but Arjun actually played the move. C three here, Vantika taking a slightly different approach.

Why do you call her Vantika? Huh? She is Vantika. अच्छा, वंतिका। E six attacking the pawn here and Vantika goes B four, A five striking C three and this very sharp line is happening. B six well done by Mary Loli hitting the pawns on B four C five.

Takes. Oh, why fd7?

Why knight takes? Knight b— but this is a tough move because you think about c6, but here there is a check, bishop takes b4. So instead you go, uh, here knight takes was the best move. Played knight fd7, and now came knight c3. Not again the best move by Vantika. What would you play, Harshit bhai?

I would probably try to castle here. I want to just, you know, somehow castle my king very quickly and try to go for a quick e4. But Vantika goes for the move knight to c3. Decent, very, very decent move. And I like her position because it is— there's a huge imbalance, and I think she will outplay.

I think Vantika is in a good opening because if the opponent will take here, she will very likely push her pawn forward. Yeah. We have Divyansh Jadon who says, met my first celeb Namrata. I bought a chessboard from her. I think Amruta she wants to say.

Namrata.

As soon as after that Vishy came out of nowhere, got his sign Amrutalak. Maybe he knew the name, spelling error हो गया। Knight c3 and this as Harshit bhai said, lot of imbalances on the board. Harshit bhai, if you go out and walk around, you will meet lot of people. Actually, please go and meet. No, really. Oh, we have seen Nigel Short. Nigel Short is here, by catch all right. Great players are here, and we will invite them slowly into our broadcast, right?

Yeah, absolutely. And on the last women's board, debutant of this event, Savita, and the inform, the current Asian champion, Savita Shri, joining the Indian team. Hi, आप ये game दिखाओ। मैं एक वो लड़कियों का कैमरा क्यों नहीं चल रहा है फिक्स करके done guys सागर will be joining us very very soon by the way सविता going for the English opening c4 e5 pawn to g3 played by नूनियस दियाज and अमृता what do you have to say about सविता श्री you know she joined and play is playing for the Indian team the first time What would you say about Savita?

Yeah, she has been, as we have already known her, she has been prodigious, very talented, very aggressive. And I think here this is going to be a big boost for her to play such a tournament. Many times one such tournament changes, you know, everything for a player's career. I think she's gonna be inspired. So I am waiting for a very High performance from her, not even a good performance, but a very high performance from her.

Yeah, and she starts off with the English opening with the black pieces. Bishop develops to e7. So far, very logical move. Bishop d2, bishop e6, knight comes into e4, f6. And this move seems a little strange, Amruta, because we are moving the f pawn close to our king. But the idea is. That we want to stop black from getting into the g5 square, and the move pawn to f6 stops white from getting control of the g5 square. And we can also at some point drop back with our bishop on e6 to f7. So we have this nice little square for our bishop. Also, last thing, g5 भी आ सकता है कभी तो.

Whoa! Yes.

But what what is the like even in the future? What would be your idea with g5?

G five, G four to hit the knight on F three, and once the knight moves from F three, हमको D four का square मिल जाएगा। Oh! So that's like the long term idea. And look at the clock. Savita Shri already showing a lot of confidence in her play. I think out of all the boards on the women's team, I actually like Savita's position quite a lot.

No, now that you have explained it so beautifully, I love the ideas. And A three, this move where white does want to go B four, does it make any sense?

What should black play? White wants to play the move pawn to b4. Let's try to logically reply or respond with black.

देखो illogical तो मैं सोच नहीं सकती, तो जो भी है logical ही रहेगा। Actually उल्टा बोलना चाहिए पर। Nirav Vishal well done, very well done.

Devansh well done. Then we have Berserk again finding the best move guys amazing. Well done, Dhananjay also finding the best move. Shahi class. Yes, Samruta, the move is pawn to a5, and the move pawn to a5 prevents white from playing the move pawn to b4. And after playing the move pawn to a5, a huge idea for black is to actually play the move pawn to a4, clamping down these 2 pawns on b2 and a3. So I think Savita Shri is going to play the move pawn to a five यहाँ पे। That's nice, Andy guys.

You can see how a grandmaster thinks. So many times Harshit is basically looking at what's the opponent's idea and what should I do to stop that. And this one thing again and again and again poke your brain to do this so that your level will improve. Actually rating improve होगा ना directly if somebody is able to do this very well.

Two main things that we need to do in the you know beginner stage to improve our game. First, before making our move, just make sure that we are not missing some simple tactic, like we are not blundering any direct piece. Second, you ask yourself before making a move, what does my opponent want? If we are able to just answer these two questions nicely, like correctly, I think that will save a lot of like silly points that we give away.

Absolutely. Yeah, guys, guys, please note this advice down because it is coming from a Very very experienced grandmaster. वो बहुत आगे जा सकते थे उनके करियर पे, लेकिन उन्होंने decide किया commentary भी करते हमारे साथ। No I love it.

I love commenting and looking at all of the games. I still love playing, but whichever event I cannot play, I'm commentating.

Cool and have you covered all the women's boards, Harshit bhai?

Yes we have covered all the women's boards.

Actually and what's the round up right now?

Let's quickly go to Vaishali's game, Amruta, because that Was one game which was problematic.

Yes. How come? Did you see it? You know where did you see it?

Problematic, Amruta, because we left we left it here after c5, b6, bishop b7, h6. Her opponent could have taken on f6. She did not. Went back bishop h4 and who actually made a mistake? Plays the move.

But can we all try to think about it? Because look, her opponent is 1792, which means most of you in the chat would be around that rating. And how is it? Respect मत दे chat को। हर्षित भाई roasting the chat over here, पर सच में for me this feels like a very normal move, correct? D five is a normal move. वो क्या रहा है is the question. The first point is what are people saying? A three is one move. You want to take away your one move, but another move is take and then takes. Clarity नहीं है यार हर्षित भाई। नहीं यहाँ पे there is a way. There is a way with which engine जैसा नहीं है ना, like wait let's see if Sagar can find it out. Sagar is everything okay? No matter what don't be stressed. It's all fine. जो भी रहेगा एक सेकंड partner चाहिए life में.

Amruta always you know making sure that and Sagar by always making sure Amruta is fine.

Amazing. So I think the best the best thing about me and Amruta is that if I am stressed out Then Amruta says, "I will take your stress away." And if I'm not stressed, she will give me stress. So the cycle continues.

Yeah, but both of us have to learn to deal with stress. By passing the pass.

By passing तो करेंगे पर यहाँ पे क्या हो क्या रहा है?

How did she play D five? She played it.

नहीं but एक मिनट साथ में don't look at the engine. Did you? No.

Bye let's try to calculate actually. D five केला है. सागर भाई, let you can look at me and try to understand भाई। Is this the right move?

Somebody said नहीं दिखाओ मत हमें, हमें मत दिखाओ। E four cannot be oh I know it's not right move so c takes d five c d e d e four नहीं but it's too much bishop c three e five no way no way that's too difficult to find so c d e d what else can be d takes c five मार देते हैं पहले Right, do you think we are coming close to the focus move of the day?

Yeah, this is a big one, guys. This is, this is going to be the focus move of the day because we are still trying to understand how does white have such a big advantage.

Guys, today Divya is taking a rest, so today she is not playing, but tomorrow she will be back in action. The move here, c takes d5. E takes d5. Oh my God!

Consider bishop takes e3 as an intermezzo.

Yes, but first the most natural e takes d5.

But it's not just one move. Wait, many moves. E four, right? Yeah, e four also knight e five is giving white a huge winning advantage apparently.

I think Vaishali in big trouble, right? If knight e five is the best move, but e four is also very interesting.

Bishop takes c3 and e5. Oh my God, भाई!

Wait a second, guys. This has been a crazy calls for you know the neuro focus moves of the day.

क्या बात है? Let's go. Too good. भाई एक बार दिखाओ तो ये neuro क्या है?

हाँ, so guys, neuro is our sponsor for this entire event. They have supported us. And you can see here we've brought here. There are going to be ten giveaways every day to our chat as well. पहले मुझे एक giveaway कर दो ना। And it is basically something that people eat for being focused. It's for people above the age of eighteen.

अच्छा, तो मैंने इसको आइस कॉफ़ी लेता हूँ। Can I have one? Yes. So what to do with this?

You can eat. It's basically gum. So it's not. It's meant. To give you focus and energy.

I'm going to try the iced coffee flavor. Okay, bye. आपको चाहिए भाई?

Every day there will be ten giveaways.

So कौन सा?

कोई भी ले सकते हो आप। अच्छा। सारे ice coffee हैं क्या?

I can also take one. So I actually like it because it's a mint and it converts into a gum.

Really? Yeah. So it's a chewing gum. Yeah.

Let's go, and it will give you sustained energy. Not like an energy drink or a coffee, so very minimal. Plus, it's good for focus and not meant for people below eighteen.

Okay. क्यों eighteen के नीचे नहीं? Oh no!

Because coffee and all is you know for eighteen and above. But look at these stickers. I really love them.

But it's very good actually. Energy focus.

अच्छा है ना? So thank big shout out to Neuro for supporting us.

Tata Ghat says that ice coffee is the best flavor. He has also tried it. Oh wow!

Okay, by the way, after now only nine remaining are Sidh by Neklelia. Hey guys, thus every day we'll do the recap of the day and in that we will have ten giveaways.

So Yeah, but one second, guys. How easy is this for white to play?

By the way, Amruta, you are right. Bishop c3. Again, there is an insane move, d takes e6.

What?

Here, check.

No way.

Look, only Magnus Carlsen or Garry Kasparov will find it. So let's not even worry about it because I think it's too engine-like. Yeah, हमारा joke है। It's too engine-like, so it's not going to work out. So I don't think Vaishali has made a practical mistake. Got it?

Yeah, but I do think that this board, even though her opponent is 1792, Vaishali does need to be a bit careful because even here Even this position, Harshit bhai. Sorry, yeah, bishop c3.

Even if you take here and play this, it's still clearly better after knight e5, f4. I mean, what, what is this?

This is because you can't assess it. It's clearly better.

No, if I am black, if I was, if I was white, I would play this.

At least play this, but will you assess it as plus?

No, I would assess it as point plus 1. I would assess it as a point 1. No, plus 1. Plus one, yeah.

And I would assess it at zero point two or three, which means like I think Vaishali is a very aggressive player. Okay. She feels comfortable about the position. I am on Vaishali's side.

Give Amruta a chair. Amruta, should we bring a chair for you? No, no, no.

It's fine, fine.

Better na? मैं खड़ा रहता हूँ. You know what?

There is a standing table we have. So हमलोग बीच-बीच में we stand. अच्छा.

So that way it is. Whenever you need, just let me know. I would be very happy to stand.

Okay, fine. Hi, Vaishali in big trouble. Yeah. That shows that actually this tournament anything can happen.

Welcome to the FIDE Chess.

Oh, क्या हुआ? Cameras. Camera आ गया। Women का। क्योंकि बहुत times हम struggle कर रहे थे ना women का। So I went there and told them that women का camera was missing. So they managed to get us. And look at this. We are actually looking at. No, get the camera for us.

Okay, we are actually looking at Vaishali's camera here. Her opponent is completely zoned in, man. Imagine what a moment it would be for these teams to even get half a point or one point away from the Indian team. I agree.

And, uh, and people should know that Team India in women are the top seed. Yeah, like in men we are second seeds, but in women we are First seats, not unfortunately, but whatever it is, we are we have been given. Join, join, guys. We have a special guest joining in, not just to say hi to all our viewers. No, no, Arshid bhai, you can say. Yes, yeah, yeah. We have the one and only Fiona here. Hello, hello. Hi, hello everyone.

Hello, Testways India.

Fiona, we have four thousand people watching. How excited are you for the Olympics?

I'm so excited. It's my first time not playing, so it's very different. It's my first time.

Are you missing media? For your media?

Yes. But are you missing playing or are you enjoying this new role? It's so— I mean, it's just started. You ask me again in a few days. Sure, then you'll come here again in a few days. Then I'll come again in a few days. But I have to say this Expo area is really, really fantastic. I enjoy it. Great to see Fiona. Oh, so great to see you all, and I must come back. I haven't been to India since Chennai Olympics, so I have to come back to India. Four years, huh? It's been four years. It's been too long.

Quite long. But Fiona, maybe there's a lot to explore for you, and once you do that someday, please do join us. Yes, I will.

You could start with the FIDE merch, which is great, and the ChessBase stall over there. I'll make sure to stop at the ChessBase stall. Great to see everyone.

Thank you for having me, and I'll see you around.

Thank you, Fiona. Thank you.

Bye, Fiona. Guys, Fiona, one of the most well-known faces in the world of chess. She's a wonderful host. She hosts almost all the tournaments, yeah, from freestyle chess to, um, Grenke Wherever I go, there's Fiona. So it's wonderful to see her here and joining us.

By all of the like you know big names in chess, whether it be players, whether it be in media, whether it be like some businessmen, सब हैं यहाँ पे। भाई अगर आप एक tournament कोई भी plan कर रहे हो, Olympiad is the one.

In fact, you can even plan this Olympiad because like Arjun bhai, you can come without visa. But even if you want a visa, it comes in three days.

Oh by the way, luckily night to E five. Okay once.

Guys, guys, guys, guys, do you understand how the opponents are also thinking over here right now? The vibe is very different. So tell me, Sagar, was I right? You are always right. Yes. Oh no, always? I don't want to be always right. There is no fun in being always right, you know.

You are able to think like 1792. Oh sorry, so that was a joke, guys. Amruta is very strong. But the thing is, Amruta was right that actually it's not easy to find the move here for for the black side, for the white pieces.

Bye, cute toda, cute toda.

मतलब I think it was right that because you know if I faced today Magnus Carlsen and he made a blunder and I would be trying to find the move, it would be very tough. Correct. भाई आपने भी मेरे जैसे करेक्ट किया, without thinking.

I will clarify over here. One last thing. Yes. I can think if I have to think for a 1792, I can think for him or her. I can also think for 2400. Yes. I cannot think for 2800, but I can also think for 2600. So that's what I can do. So I am an expert.

Right. Amazing, Amruta. Amruta, can we have our stream here on this?

स्क्रीन नो बिकॉज़ दे डोंट हैव द रिमोट टुडे टुमरो इट विल ओके ग्रेट देन पीपल कैन वाच अस टुमरो डोंट डिविएट बाय द वे हर्षित भाई डू यू थिंक द बार्स आर वर्किंग और एवरीथिंग इज़ एट जीरो जीरो भाई इट्स अ बिग मिस्टेक ये वेरी बिग मिस्टेक बिकॉज़ शी हैड टू शी कैन न Point is that here, if white took c takes d five, yeah, and black takes e takes d five, we permanently make this bishop on b seven quite passive. That's a very important point, guys.

Exactly. So I can actually show some very important examples. Yes. Because even when you play like the Queen's Gambit Declined here, and this is the famous variation. Where you go h6, bishop h4, and b6. Many times white takes here, takes here, and then takes on d5 just so that the bishop here is closed. Yeah, so even to that extent they are ready. So Harshit bhai's point is so right that if you take here, you would have closed down this bishop.

Exactly. And Kimaya Worley giving a lot of support, uh, super chatting, let's go India!

Let's go, bye. Kimaya is an amazing, uh, um, personality in our chat because she's very young. Okay, she's doing her CA, she's in her CA finals. I think she has not cleared yet, but she has been supporting with a membership for almost more than 4 years now. And even when she was a student, she was contributing that to Indian chess. So hats off to Kimaya.

This is the one of the reasons why, Sagar bhai, You Chessbase India, the Indian team, the the federation is doing so well because we have such positive support for passionate support. Yeah. So thank you so much for supporting. By the way, after knight to e five, Vaishali has the golden opportunity. That golden opportunity is maro pawn ko or ye pawn ko bhi udao. Or fir ye bishop ko rocket banado.

Oh. Get the bishop rolling, and then after bishop takes, you can simply मैं मैं तो बोलता हूँ भाई bishop को पीछे लेके आओ, and then get your knight.

भाई this game let's it's good sign for Vaishali. Let's go back to the open open.

भाई let's go to Gukesh. People are saying Gukesh is doing very well. He has an advantage, but guys not really actually. Rook e8, rook fe1. Alriami Fariz Rashid is playing well भाई. Can we get the camera of? Oh, by the way, by the way, we can also look at the overview camera to see. And there we see Vaishali's game. We can see the full view there. Very nice. Thank you, guys. Yeah. And we have another. Oh, this is the U.S. team. Okay. And you can see Hans Niemann on board two, Levon Aronian on board three, Wesley So on board. वन, अ वांडर लियांग। क्रेजी। हर्षित भाई, यू आल्सो नो द U.S. टीम क्वाइट वेल। हम्म हम्म। हाउ डू यू फील अबाउट हांस नीमन कमिंग इन एंड टुडे प्लेइंग?

आई थिंक इट्स हिज डेब्यू। आई थिंक इट वाज़ द ओलंपिक टाइम दैट ही गेट्स द चांस टू प्ले फॉर द U.S. टीम। अ द लास्ट टाइम दे ह Fabi being board number 1 for the US team, for sure one of the contenders for championship, right?

Amazing. And I think a strong team, but imagine if there was Hikaru as well, the team would have been even stronger. But Hikaru decided not to play.

Correct.

But I still feel that with Awonder coming in and Hans, it brings in fresh new blood into the team, right?

Yeah, will be a very exciting team to follow. Let's go! To the Indian camps here, and here we can see Ajubhai on the top board. Should we check Ajubhai's game? Let's check Ajubhai's. By the way, on this board, Gukesh does have a good position. His opponent played bishop before, and again we can go for the same idea of knight e5 and f4 at some point.

Do you think, Harshit bhai, that we can also think about pushing the pawn? It's not coming in here, right? e4, because this structure, you want to open up this bishop. That's a very good point.

That's actually a very good point.

But right now we can't do it because of bishop takes c3.

Exactly. So I think what knight e5 achieves is that it makes sure that the knight on b8 cannot move. And I have a question for everyone watching. What if black plays queen to c7? White to play, what to do?

Whoa, in this position. Wow, guys, time for you to put your thinking hat on. White to play, we are going to ask a lot of questions because this is classical chess. And one of our main things apart from making this exciting for you is also to make it educational so that you become stronger chess players. Absolutely.

And you know, I think it— when we see these games being played, uh, oh, Krik Unknown, Pradeep Kumar, Aditi Singh Rathod, Ramta Gadpaliwa, Hari Charan, guys, Sreejit But well done, Anmol Bhargav in the chat, guys.

A big shout out to Anmol bhai, without whom this stream would never happen because he is the designer of ChessBase India. He is the graphic designer. भाई जो भी graphic रहता है ना ये ChessBase India का वो Anmol bhai.

Yeah, and I'm actually I really love it because he has some very cool like I think once I saw graphic with some dragon. So he's always creating some very unique. Oh by the way, this is this is exactly the line that we were showing.

And now you cannot take because the queen is hanging here. So By the way, Gukesh does—

Made! Bambo! Let's go! Knight to e5.

Guki here in full flow. But a very good point by Kimaya is that after Queen c7, Knight d5, Knight d5, Bishop d5, Bishop d2 should be considered.

It should be. It should be. Because you don't want to take with the queen and lose your bishop on d5. But you know, of course, I— it came a bit naturally to me, but I hope it comes to you as well. Bishop takes f7, intermediate check. And I think this move clinches white a winning position because if, of course, black king moves, you can now simply take the rook on e8 and white has a few extra pawns, so completely winning.

Knight e5 played. Hi, I am feeling gooky today. He's going to get back into his confidence. Of course, there was no doubt that he was going to win against 1900. But it also, you know, the time that you take on the clock, the speed at which you are making your moves, that helps.

Yeah, for sure. And we have Sukesh Kumar. I have seen this message for a long time. I was at the GCL, wanted to meet you, Sagar bhai, but you had a busy schedule. Please visit Bangalore again.

We'll come back. Bye-bye. Bangalore se, we have fallen in love with Bangalore. In fact, I have some amazing friends in Bangalore. Ashwin, Aruna. And their family and also charmi shikhar and so bangalore आना बहुत regular हो गया है and harshit bhai will also get some reason soon to come to bangalore हाँ कोई तो भाई chess के लिए हाँ हाँ वो आप clarify कर देना भाई harshit bhai को चाहिए clarity मैं तो बोल रहा था हर्षित भाई will come for chess oh अजूबा अजूबा game is getting very अजूबा was playing एकदम शांति से अजूबाई वाज़ लाइक यू नो भाई वो पता है ना वो एक कोई तो डॉन रहता है फुल लाइफ ही हैज़ गोन फॉर फाइट्स एंड ऑल एंड देन एट सम पॉइंट ही सेज़ दैट नाउ आई एम ओल्ड टू ओल्ड फॉर दिस फाइट्स एंड अजूबाई स्टार्टेड द गेम विद दिस वे ही वाज़ लाइक ओह आई एम टू ओल्ड टू ट When we play knight e five, we want to recapture on e five with the f pawn, right?

So this is interesting that Arjun goes for knight e five immediately. Black rightly decides to capture on e five. Knight back to d seven. f four played by Arjun. Very aggressive, very aggressive. g six stopping all sorts of attack on the h seven pawn.

e four sorry c four not e four actually e four was also playable. अर्शित भाई, here should be a decent move, but he went c4. And now opponent played knight b6 and अजू took here. And I have a feeling very important move to take with the knight. Don't take with the pawn because then this balance becomes more potent.

For sure, because we get this concept of pushing f5 at some point, just completely opening up the black kingside. And you can see by this game that these 2300 players are not at all a rollover. I mean, we have to play well with them. Has a very, very fine position, Lahore Virapap here.

Well, Lahore Virapap, I saw him recently at WR Chess when he was there. He was playing because it was in Bangkok, right? So he's a strong player, guys. You cannot underestimate him. You can say that maybe he's around a strength of a Closing in on the GM title, he's like that kind of an IM. So now Arjun's E3 pawn is hanging, Harshit Bai. So two moves that come to mind are knight jumping into the center and the knight coming to C4. Yeah, I like knight C4 because you can kick the.

I actually also did like knight C4, but I was afraid of this B5 move, which kind of kicks my knight away and also gives black. But then c4 as well. I was a bit afraid to give black this space. I think right now white has this small space advantage because of the space in the center, and I don't want black to get that on the flank. So I think knight to f3 or knight to e4 would be slightly better to stop black from playing b5.

So knight f3 seems like a fair move here. Exactly. Interesting. Okay, knight d5 on the board.

And by the way, भाई, I have to just set set this tone right from the beginning, भाई. Whenever team India में point या कुछ होता है, कुछ तो dance से कुछ बनता है। एक point पे या जीतने पे?

जब team जीतती है। Team जीतने पे। ठीक है, हर्षित भाई wants to dance four times. नहीं नहीं भाई, जब ही team जीतती है। Okay.

Deal? Deal. Let's go.

I think हर्षित भाई you have some nice football moves, but we need to move beyond football. And look at some other options also, because last year we were doing sui and all those. So today it has to be different. Okay, Harshit actually now has to think a lot because football comes to him naturally.

Yeah, I mean, football is my first love, I guess.

Yeah, yeah, maybe we can ask our chat also. They will have some suggestions.

By the way, this DJ Bravo celebration was also very popular. DJ Bravo Champion.

देखते हैं भाई, we will if we want to win the gold, we will have to celebrate at least twenty times here out of twenty-two.

It's not one of the long event, long event.

You have you know the pressure here just to set things in context. By the way, Arjun plays Queen E two, which is one of the best moves here. I think that's what I saw on the camera. Yeah, he played it. Queen e2 played. Um, and, and so the point is the Uzbek team here is in full flow. They are very aggressive. They want to do well. I think we also have their, uh, cameras if we can get it. You can see here Uzbekistan, they are taking on, uh, the team of I think it is Kenya, Jamaica. Jamaica. So Uzbekistan is taking on the team of Jamaica, and we have Norderbeck playing on board number one.

Yes. Javokir actually took board number two, and this is interesting because Javokir is the higher. He's not there today.

Javokir is missing. He hasn't played, but he is on board two. Correct.

And he's the higher rated player, but I feel like Nodirbek has been playing top level chess for longer than Javakhir, and I'm not very surprised that he's playing on board one.

And by the way, the game which is very interesting for some people who might be following this creator by Akim with Akim. His name is Goodbye Akim Brown. He's on fourth board, and I think he has a great position against Mukhitin Madaminov.

By he can hold. He's someone who can hold because he wants to make a video out of this game. By Madamino doesn't have an easy game.

Akim will be like a video, one draw. He will make at least one video, one reel. So Madamino has to play well here, and I think Jamaica is giving a good fight on all boards, just like how it's happening with India. Can we quickly check what's happening? Okay, so this is by the way this board. We also have one more camera on the Uzbek board. You can see there. You can see the remaining two boards. Akim can be seen more clearly from here. Yeah. We also have this one here. This is the Uzbek women team. Ah. So the thing is here we have them with. Two angles because they have more cameras on board one because Uzbekistan is on board one. They want more cameras over there. But Harshit bhai, we also have some very nice this frames head to head, head to head, which we will then try to bring in. This we learned from global chess league commentary that we have analysis board, live board.

मस्त है ना ये बहुत अच्छा लग रहा है इसी ना and the thing is that the Indian team is playing on board number 2, and that's the reason why we don't have this head-to-head cameras of theirs yet. But I think going forward, I think we'll try to get those cameras as well.

Yeah, I've actually asked slowly, maybe not today, but at the end of today we will ask our friends here. Yeah, Lennart and Menno, if they can actually start putting more cams on Indian boards, because I think Uzbek will remain on board one throughout the event, no matter how what they do. Correct. So if India wants to get you know like better cameras, then maybe they'll have to put it up.

Yeah. And by the way, we have Gulruk Begim on the camera here.

She's board number one for board number two actually for no she's board one or board two? She's board two today, but she's playing who's playing board one?

Yeah, she's a 2400 player, very strong player. And, uh, Begim, of course, uh, an ambassador for women's chess in Uzbekistan, has a winning position already, actually.

Oh wow.

And, uh, she seems to be doing the job on board number 1.

Bye. Let's go to our girls and see Vaishali, what she managed to do here.

Yeah, this is an important— she finds it. She finds the key idea of opening up the bishop, and I have to say, I love playing against IQP positions. I really do. I I have analyzed these positions quite a lot. It started from the book initially My System by Nimzowitsch, and through that book, I developed a feeling of playing against the IQP positions. And, and the one of the main ideas for black in this positions is to somehow exchange the light squared bishops. And how that helps black is that that leaves white with only the dark squared bishop. And in some ways, it's not the best piece because the pawn on d4 would mean that when it comes to a bishop endgame. Black would be dominating. So the light-squared bishop is something black would love to exchange. What white wants to do is develop some attack on the kingside. So these are some of the dynamics of this position. dc4, and De La Rosa has not made her decision yet. She takes with the bishop, but Vaishali's position looking good here now, bye.

Bye. Mayur Gondalekar said smothered mate on Sri Lankan board 3. Let's take a look. I don't know which board Sri Lanka is on. Oh, there, there.

Yeah, maybe this one. No, no, not this one.

We'll try to find it. Meanwhile, while we are looking at it, let's go to the game of Humpy and see how she is doing. Early days in the Humpy game, but she's ahead on the clock and also her position looks nice. And you said this move h4. Yeah. It's on the board, Harshit bhai.

Yeah, Hampi is in complete control, and that's what we expected from her on board number 1. Very, very experienced, you know, has played the Olympiad most number of times from the current roster. And I think, you know, in critical games, we are always going to be relying on Hampi to, to do well on the first board.

On the top board, and just checking out where Sri Lanka is. Well, Sri Lanka was on board 76. Very difficult to find sometimes the games, Harshit bhai, but I think we will be able to find it. Let's just see the view from the camera people can enjoy here.

Yeah, there are. By the way, it feels as if spectators are also allowed inside the playing hall. Of course, you cannot. Go inside with an electronic device, but a lot of spectators coming in on the first day. There will be even more as the tournament progresses. By the way, they are completely, as you can see, gathered around the top boards. The Indian team, as you can see, Gukesh there, Gukesh walking around, taking a look at some of the other boards. Everyone, of course, curious to see all the top players. What's happening on? The Indian team, Indian team's boards, the Uzbek team's boards. As we try to show you the smothered mate that happened on the board of Sri Lanka. Oh my God! And you found it, bye.

Yes. Let's go. So look at the finish, bye. Knight f2 mate. How did this even happen? Let's go few moves back.

Uh, by the way, white was unrated. Which country is it? So that people also improve their knowledge of the flags.

That's Sri Lanka. White was Grenada. Grenada. So this happened, this happened, and this position, Harshit bhai, is going to go into Chess Ranga in mate in one.

Boom bam bim boom bam bim. Knight to f2 and it's finito la comedy as Pereira checkmates Nazia James. Very picturesque checkmate here, bye. Let's go back to see, uh, yes, we are very professional by now. Let's go, bye.

Look at the other view.

Too good, bye.

Transition. You know, in this transition, as we are doing it, we are having someone joining in. Very, very cool. And there we go, Amruta is here.

Hello, hello everyone. I want a roundup of the— starting from men's team, Sagar, what's going on, open team. And I also want to point out That there's a very interesting game, a wonder Leon, and he's completely winning. Oh wow!

And the position is just nine to let's start from board one of India.

Yeah, we have we have Arjun playing on board one.

I think early days here can't say who's better, very equal.

But I think Arjun loves these kind of positions. But equal. But it's around equal. Yeah. Objectively, it's around equal. Black, I have to give him credit, has played really well in the opening.

And a six. Also such a good move, trying to expand and get the bishop out.

And you would you are kind of baiting white to play a four. You are baiting white to play a four to get control of the b four square. So a very nice decision here by by Lahawira Pap by the Prin, Thailandese player.

So also when by Prin you can say no?

Ah, Prin.

But when both of you are talking about Objectivity, you know. I don't care about it because what is important is subjectivity when it comes to Arjun. Ajubai and subjectivity, the madman, as we are aware of this, he's going to convert into a deadly, deadly attack and, uh, he's going to win. That's the prediction.

Yeah, I think win him winning is for sure.

No, I don't think anything is sure. Sure. Yeah. It can anything can happen. Everything is pretty possible. You know, we know that Arjun was losing last time against an FM, and also Aronian lost one game, or was he completely lost?

Completely, yeah. And he had some upsets for sure.

So let's look at another board. We have Nihal Sarin versus Thanadon, and this one. Is crazy, right?

And look at you. Did you see that move? Bishop takes c3. That moment you have to go back because it was such a great decision by Nihal.

What an understanding! But but somewhere I think Nihal was completely better. He is. He is. Oh my God!

Winning now and because of Amruta's like what she wants to show here. Bishop takes c3.

Oh my God! Beautiful bishop.

You know long diagonal pay. Please बताओ, why did he give up on that bishop?

By the way, मैं कहना चाहूँगा, I'm so happy to have Nihal on the team. Yeah, he's so good. The last one-two years has been like, you know, one of the best years in his career. 2718 rating. He gives up the bishop, and the reason, as Amruta, you are asking, I think, is because the white bishop on c1 seems like it's a good piece, but not really. Not really. You would want to Gift me the pawn on c3, but black is not going to take it. Beautiful. He's gonna keep the position blocked. And as you see the moves progress, queen c2, knight comes back to f6.

So this was an important exchange to point out to all the people who are trying to learn and understand about minor pieces. Please note this exchange, why it is important over here. And the dark squares, though it seems like they are weak, they're not.

So good, guys. Black to play. And I think I want to show that even here, after castle, knight b6, In this position, if you take the knight on e4 twice, what does Nihal Sarin have on his mind?

Oh, too good! Crazy! What a crazy move this is! There is a very nice move here for black, and we have Meera Gopal.

या मैं कहा आदित्य काये अनवाय भिवारे अरनव नेहल देशमुख हाय नेहल भाई नेहा श्वेता शर्मा ऋषभ यस यस गाइस दैट्स द वे टू विन द क्वीन एंड विन द गेम निहाल सरीन सो ट्रिकी एंड दैट इज हाउ It is winning here.

The queen is trapped, and actually speaking, here Harshit bhai, I have to point out that this is an opening that is one of my favorites. Really? Yes. I'll show you how this idea comes about. I have played it recently with Dina Belenkaya. It's the game is on her channel. I had lost it, but out of the opening, I was completely winning in that blitz game. So the idea is you go bishop g seven. Knight c three, c five, c five, and then when you play d five, you take here.

So you used to give up this bishop many times, right?

I played this. A lot of games. I played this, and then you play f five like how Nihal did to take control of this square with knight f six. However, here the problem is that white can play this very aggressive move e four, and then f And such positions are a dream for both the bishops.

Wow, what a lovely pawn sac. Like, it's a gambit, maybe.

Exactly. But now if we come back to the game of Nihal, we realize that actually speaking, in the same position, there is no way to get e4 and unleash this bishop. Yeah, which is why after bishop takes c3, b takes c3, and queen a5, This is already a completely dominating position for Nihal Sarin.

And as the game progressed, he actually has a winning position now as White played the move Knight to h4. And I think Nihal Sarin will give India the first point ever in this Olympiad. Wow, wow!

But I don't understand the move Knight h4 at all.

Like, no, what could be the idea, Amruta, to stop Bishop to f5? So White now wants to To take the knight on e4, and the problem is that black won't have bishop to f5. That's the whole concept.

Why can't we do that?

No, no. So now the pawn is hanging.

Now bishop takes e4. Black pawn takes e4. Queen takes e4. Yes, you stop bishop f5, but I can still win the pawn on c3.

But now if I ah c4 is hanging. Rook b1 queen takes c4. And now the bishop does activate. अर्शित भाई, but it's a bit too late.

By the way, a very very important point after rook takes b7. Big move here for black.

Black to play, guys. Yeah. Black to play. Watch Nihal play at GCL. He's a monster, says Nimai Bolar. I think Nimai, you have the perfect way of kind of depicting Nihal.

Yeah. Can you sit?

I'll just come in two minutes. But you have you asked a question? No, sir.

अर्शित भाई, if you take this and go. Imagine one day Harshit bhai goes here, meets everyone, and we get to hear all his talks. I could be in big trouble. Big trouble, my friend. Harshit bhai is like, "Yes, how are you, my friend?

Good to meet you." नहीं ऐसा नहीं होता है बातें ऐसा कर। Yeah, the best move as many people, Kari Job, Agam Tandon, Anirudh Bhargav, Knight to B6. Just trapping the rook on B7, and next we just go bishop C8 and gobble it up.

These are some amazing backward moves, and these are the moves which say in an argument, you know, take a step back. And it works sometimes.

Good, good one, Amruta. Okay, so Nihal is better. Harshit bhai, you can go and take a break. And Harshit bhai, who has been commentating here since the start of the day.

Harshit bhai, how did you like the ice coffee? Iced coffee. Got it. He's he loved it and he's not planning to have any coffee right now.

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Rooting for the Indian team. Yes, and Amruta, we are now looking at the game of Gukesh. We did see the last move when we left off. It's moving a bit slowly because the opponent played move Bishop b7 after 21 minutes of thought, and the idea was he wants to play Knight d7 without losing the pawn on c6. So now, if you were in Gukesh's shoes, and actually after a long time we are able to see Gukesh's classical game. Coolly, people can see. Let's go full screen on the main board and they can see Gukesh in the background there. Very nice there. Vidit is standing. Gukesh is there. Nihal can't be seen.

If I was in Gukesh's shoes, I would definitely fall, Sagar. But over here, after bishop b seven, white to play. What are the moves, guys? Chat, try to think. All of you want to improve. In fact, in Bangalore. I was at the Chess Biz India stall. There I met so many people who are between the rating range of 1400 to 1700, and everybody wanted to improve. And this is the moment what you want to do is think, think about what you will play over here and why you will play that. Try to, you know, make an Olympiad notebook, I would suggest, and see whatever game is happening, write the moves Whichever position you are seeing, think of only one thing: which is the best move in this position? This, if you do for the next eleven days, I think your understanding of rating level will improve by hundred points. Rating will improve or not, I don't know because it all depends on how you play in a tournament. But ha, कर ही लेना। क्या क्या खेलूँ सागर यहाँ पे? I think. रुक ही जाने वाला है और यू डोंट वांट टू गो ई फोर ब्रेक राइट बिकॉज़ डी फोर इज़ वीक सो मेबी रुके डी वन सीम्स मोर नैचुरल तू मी या वन मोर रुके डी वन ए थ्री इज़ आल्सो नाइस मूव बिशप जी फाइव लुक्स लाइक अ पॉसिबिलिटी सो भुकेश हैज़ मेनी ऑप्शंस लेट मी जस्ट ब्रिंग द बोर Hi, Sagar bhai.

The font and color of player styles at the bottom is illegible. 2024 Olympia tiles and colors were better. We'll try our best to improve it. I think Rakshit had made these changes.

I messaged him because I think normally it should be contrast to the overlay. It cannot be the same. So he will happen. Yeah, you can just turn around and we'll do.

And here we can see bishop to B7 played. And which country are you from?

Bahrain.

Bahrain. And what's your name? Julie. Julie. Judy is here from Bahrain, and Judy, very nice to see you. So there are a lot of people here from different countries. Thank you so much, Judy. And yeah, I'm loving that.

Like the dresses are so different. Sagat, I think it's an amazing opportunity for the so many countries to meet and to interact, and especially at Bermuda party, it will be a lot of fun.

Though we always end up going very, very late, but action starts at Bermuda parties five days later.

Yeah, Bermuda party का road सोचना चाहिए. Like I don't think I can not. Think of Bermuda party being an Olympiad. It's the one thing everyone should experience in their life. Yeah, for sure.

By the way, we have a member here, Anindya Messi. Thank you so much for becoming a member on our channel. And yeah, by the way, Vidit Gujarati here is playing, and he's playing with the black pieces against Tupfa Kumnar Keov and Namrata. This is amazing what he. His opponent is doing here. Vidit had a decent position, but look at how he's castled long, put the bishops here, and maybe eventually may want to attack in the center by moving the knight and pushing the pawn. So very strong play by the Thai players, you know, not giving Indians an easy edge.

Wow! I think, but Thailand does not have like continuous tournaments and all, but they have one in April. Usually there is a tournament in Bangkok. Which happens? It's interesting the fight which is happening. Vidit has more time on the clock, but opposite side castle sagar. Vidit will need to start attacking in some way, though I am not able to see the direct push with black pawns. Let's say, like I would love if there was b four, b five, b four. पर मिल नहीं रहा है.

Yeah, it's not so simple. Vidit has to tread carefully here. Also, his opponent, if he gets ambitious, can. Save the bishop so that now the knight cannot move, and next move move the knight away and play f3.

No, bishop e one is impossible to think. Like I mean, you know, you want to become ambitious or bishop e one.

It's just a natural move, Amruta, to save the bishop. If you are a d four player, this is very common. That's true. By the way, Neeraj Satikar, who has been a member for thirty four months, says all the best Indian team for this Olympiad. Thank you, Neeraj bhai. For being a member for 34 months on our channel, Amruta. There are few other players whom we should talk about. Ding Liren is here. He is playing in this tournament. Yeah. And it's very cool to see that he will be here.

And he also played really well in Hong Kong, right? Where you were. Yeah. The team won the event. So. करेक्ट हम्म नहीं तो कुछ और तो नहीं बोला ना by the way guys this is my card over here for online you can check this out nicely done whole this strip also it's very nice I'm gonna keep it as a memento सागर when I go back home just to tell you I won't throw this Okay, Amruta.

This is Ding Liren. He's playing with white. We also see another game. Yu Yangyi already winning his game with black against opponents. There are many games which you will see are very very quickly.

But but this but Anish Giri का बताओ.

Anish Giri playing with white against Nissinen Nilo Manth and he is playing against the team of Hong Kong. As you said, Hong Kong. Hong Kong is here. Amrita, Anish Giri played the bishop g5 line, the Torre attack.

Torre or Trompowski?

Well, if you play bishop g1 move 2, it is Trompowski, but this is Torre, but can be used interchangeably. And he tried to attack here, but the opponent played rook g8, and now Anish got queen a4.

And is better, and he will clearly understand the imbalances between the bishop and knight and the black king in the center. And the you know whole black is not getting any kind of attack over here. Right. Okay, Anish doing well. Let's let's go back to the Indian game, Sagar.

I was just trying to go on this world tour of Abdusattarov being slightly better, just so that our viewers also get an idea of what's happening. Nodirbek Yakubov. Is playing here. Done.

मुझे लगा पहले you said world tour. मैंने बोला अभी India tour one year nomadic journey हो गया. We are now going to be one year world tour.

रुता, look at this chess with Akeem. He is better against Mukhidin Madamino. Can you believe it? He is a creator.

No, I can't believe it because Madamino has been playing very well. He played Naroditsky Open. He played in like Oost Chess. So he's very strong. It's a surprise, and the team would be very tensed about the situation. But you know the one thing which happens, Agar, for anybody who has a 600 Elo point different or difference is towards the end they kind of fall apart. A collapse आ जाता है. And why why would you say that happens?

Well, I think the main thing is there is always a skill gap. So that will show at some point, if not in the openings, then in middle games or endgames. And sometimes they can play on a given day at a high level and a draw can happen. Sometimes they even beat, very rarely, but it does happen.

Hmm.

By the way, here you can see Hans is winning, Wesley is winning. Levon Aronian, however, was in some trouble against, uh, Alireza Ahsan. And I think Levon usually takes these games not super seriously. But he should be careful because look at this, Amruta. After take here, knight e5, and if the queen moves, let's just imagine a simple, a sample line, queen c7. What is a great move for white here, guys? Try to think what is the first move that comes to your head. First move, should I say?

No, first let them think. Okay, so you're so sure about my calculation. I'm happy we have Pluto Messi who has contributed, uh, Super Chat. I hi, Sagar Bhai and Amruta. I don't know how to play chess, but I like watching it. Thank you for supporting chess. I wish to see you become a grandmaster, and I love you, Sagar Bhai, a pure spirit. Thank you so much. Thank you. You wish to see him become a grandmaster. I understand that, but at this point it is completely on hold, and as his age is growing, it will become very very difficult.

By the way, Amruta, just to tell you objective situation, guys, we'll— something will happen. Sachin Bhujbal is our first contributor to Help Chess. And guys, we are going to have this thing in our all of the days of our, um, Olympiad. We are going to raise funds on helpchess.org, so you can go and contribute. All the money goes to young Indian talents. We've managed to use them Very very well. In fact, I made a report recently and realized we have supported 91 players of Indian chess with the money that you and many others have given. Wow! And Help Chess itself has contributed close to four crore rupees to the youngsters. So thank you all for your support, and please do keep supporting. So Sachin Bhujbal was our first ever Help Chess believer of this tournament. 3,479th believer, and we would hope that this number goes to 3,600, 3,700 in this tournament.

And I would definitely hope for goals for Team India and the number to reach 4,000. And the good news is we have crossed 50, uh, you know, mark, believe, big believers. So that's great. All the people who contribute more than ₹50,000 go into big believers. By the way, we have a super chat. Is Pakistan not playing the round one against Israel? I don't know. Yeah, most likely not. That's what we have also heard.

अच्छा, you heard that?

I mean, I heard that, but I have not seen it. So it's not something which I have factually.

I don't know if Pakistan team has managed to make it here, Amrita.

That's also a big thing. Yeah. Yeah. We should get to know about this.

Pakistan's board one is an FM, Mohammad Waqar. Second board is also an FM, Kareem Amer, and so they have an interesting team here. Wow. Okay, meanwhile, Amruta, the move that we were looking for, f6, that's a positional exchange sacrifice because, yeah, it just breaks the king completely, and then the knight can jump into the center, queen can take the pawn, the knight can come here, and it's a huge attack.

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By the way, Amruta, this last move by a wonder Liang has completely stunned his opponent.

तब से ना जागर, तब से when I told you ना go and check his game, there is no move after Queen h5.

He's thinking here such a strong move here Queen h5 played.

Look mate नहीं हो रहा है ना Knight takes c7, Queen takes c7, Queen f7, King d8. But here is the question.

Meanwhile, it seems like someone did contribute to help chess. If you hear, there was a small ting, and we have Rohit Kishore.

Thank you, Rohit.

There was also Ruchir Kulakarni. Thank you so much, Ruchir. All of you who are contributing, thank you so much for this. And knight to g six, Amruta. Here, what is the problem? And this is a very cool idea. That you can, we can show our viewers. It is to play the b four, b four opening up the bishop.

Well done. I was looking at that, but my calculation had not finished. So the idea is take here bishop g five. Now if f six, wow! No, it's not working. Oh, it's working. Queen takes g six, h takes g six, rook. H eight, king f seven, knight wherever, knight no no no no no.

You can take with a check, but you can also take the queen. And if you take here, king d two, knight a one, and finally knight takes pawn with a very quick checkmate coming in. Guys, white to play and mate in two.

What do you want? At least five hundred people giving the answer.

It's not an easy move. Try to think what will you play here, why to play and win. Let's go. Oh wait, and meanwhile we have contributors on Help Chess Grow. Thank you so much all of you for contributing here so that we are able to go through this Olympiad and reach Amruta's amazing goal of 4,000 people. Manoj Mandal, thank you for contributing 500. Arjun Tyagi contributed 15,000. Arjun, thank you. That's a huge contribution.

And Arjun, very lucky, your name is matching with Arjun. I see. That's incredible. Does if somebody calls you Ajubhai, but I they may start calling you.

And the move here found by many people in the chat, Amruta. Knight e eight check because the king can't go here. King can't go here, here, here, everywhere. King f Checkmate has to be played, and now it's time to checkmate in one move.

Oh, but my move was— my checkmate was different. This also works.

Yours was not right then.

No, it has to be right.

It was not mate in 2 then. There's only one way to mate, and here it's checkmate. Amruta's move, what was it?

Oh no, Knight g8, King d6, Bishop e7. I just thought it's a mate, but King c6 is super running, like super duper running.

And now there's no mate.

In fact, the king runs away. Look at the confidence I carry, Sagar.

By the way, what does he mean when D3 did not even go for D4 stuff? He is threatening the same ideas. This game is going to get very exciting. Let's go back to Arjun Erigaisi, whose opponent now down to 36 minutes. Lahauwira Paprin, your Arjun let his opponent expand with D5.

Actually, Lahauwira Paprin ने कुछ तो पुण्य किया है कि अर्जुन के साथ अभी खेल रहा है। Sorry for that. I have a super chat, Tiger Watchok, saying finally after 35th game I defeated Stonefish level 8. I don't know who's talking. Got it. Thank you, Soya, uh, B Studios, for your contribution. And I think right now whatever you're contributing I might be able to read, but later we'll have a lot of people and it may not be very possible.

We are going to be out of battery on our mic. Mic? Yeah. तो एक माइक निकाल के रखते हैं ना? नहीं, इसमें बैटरी चले जाने वाला है। But if we have put over here, then charge नहीं करता है? नहीं। We may have to.

Okay, we will use a laptop का माइक। We'll have to use that.

ठीक है। So there might be some disturbance, but meanwhile we can charge that while that is happening. Smilil Mahajan says. पिलर ऑफ इंडियन चेस, इट्स दैट टाइम ऑफ़ द ईयर व्हेन द बेस्ट चेस कमेंटेटरी टीम इन द वर्ल्ड चेसबेस इंडिया टॉक अबाउट द बिगेस्ट टीम चेस इवेंट्स, लेट्स ब्रेक ऑल रिकॉर्ड्स। थैंक यू स्मिनिल जी फॉर बीइंग हियर ऑलवेज एंड फॉर सपोर्टिंग अस। आई मीन टीम इंडिया हैज बीन And seeing the games of his teammates.

Wow, that's that's very inspiring also. And you know tempting to see what's happening in the women's section Indian team as well. Sohit has written an interesting comment, Sagar. Did you know in India's first Olympiad in 1956 Moscow, the players didn't know about algebraic notations and they learnt it in flight to not get disqualified for score sheet?

Many of them would not. That's amazing. That's a great point there. Thank you, Sohit, for sharing that. And e4 played by Arjun.

Now Prin has to be careful because he will go Knight b4.

That's the best move, and Arjun will save his bishop.

But obviously Knight b4 is right.

If Knight b6, it's already a mistake. It's a huge mistake, and I was wondering why Knight g5 comes first to the mind, because if you take, take, then क्वीन जी पर क्वीन है इस पर रुपए तीन रुपए से मैं मेरा फर्स्ट थॉट कम्स व्हाई नॉट पुश लाइक ओपन अप द पोजीशन फील्स लाइक ब्लैक्स ई टेक्स एफ फाइव ई टेक्स एफ फाइव ओके या एंड वी हैव द बिशप हियर सो एक्चुअली दिस इज़ द राइट मूव वाओ अमेजिंग एंड एफ फाइव सीम्स करेक्ट आल्सो इन द Save his bishop, and we will get c4 trying to plonk the knight here. Rook d1, bishop check. Bishop e3 is a blunder because of bishop takes, queen takes, and Amruta, the rook is hanging here. So we can't play bishop e3, which looked the most natural, and you have to go king h1 here. And that creates a very interesting position with black being better.

Exactly, because you know your rook from f1 has moved. The bishop is on b1, c1. Development is not there. Attack नहीं हो रहा है। तो bishop b1 हो गया है। This has happened over here. Bishop b1.

Guys, we want to ask you for a second if we do remove this Amruta and see if because we can charge this in the meantime. Correct.

And then in the meantime, I want to Read a comment from Juan Ramon Junior. Hello. Yeah. Yeah. Greetings.

Can you ask our viewers how the sound is?

How the sound is when I'm reading this? Greetings from Dominican Republic. Saludos. This day, Republica Dominicana, Spanish. Let's go in women DR versus India. Yeah, I think they are very very happy to be facing Indian women's team and that's so nice, you know. Okay, bad. Okay, wait. थोड़ा सा और आगे जाते हैं। Now is it getting better by any chance? Like if we are closer to the mic. Low quality, good sound, decent. Okay. Works बोल रहे हैं सागर, but the quality is bad. But if at all, you know I had forgotten my bag. We don't have it, right? Because I had another mic over there. Should I should I ask अभी दे?

Yeah, let's. Should I bring it up?

To put that, I'll bring it. I'll bring it सागर.

मैं अभी दे आपको put सकते हैं क्या?

Media room में, media room में। नहीं पर हिमांग भी रहेगा पर मैं रिस्पेंड चाहती हूँ वहाँ पे मुझे पता है वो विदित के बैग में है तो इसके लिए वो इंपोर्ट हाँ अभी तक जितना let's just finish it off it's fine very bad Very best. Oh, we have one more idea. I know what an idea we have. Let's do that.

No, no, no, wait, wait, wait. Don't do anything.

Yeah, I'm not. But I have an idea. अपना जो है ये फ़ोन देता हूँ। So my even if one person still enjoys to be seen, but I have my yeah.

Yeah, we'll try to fix this and let's go to the game of Nihal Sarin. Thank you guys for being with us because our main microphone today, which was this one when we were starting got completely broken. It like something fell on it and the small little disc got broken up. So that was the problem. Hey, yeah, I tested this now. How is the audio? Yeah, I'm just asking our viewers if this is better, and I think this should be working better here. Oh, much better, much better. This is good. Wow. हाँ ठीक है अभी के लिए ये इतना ही ना पे। While it's charging, not like the first one. Yes, we will get it very soon. We'll fix it. नहीं फिक्स करते हैं। ये इसमें तो नहीं होगा। ये अंदर है ना? हाँ, वो इधर डालना पड़ेगा। Let's go to Gukesh's game and Gukesh meanwhile after bishop b7 he took a good solid 19 minutes to play his last move. Gukesh also moving a bit slowly. But a good move by the youngster. He asks the bishop, where does it want to go? Bishop f8 would have been the best move, but instead his opponent took, giving bishop giving Gukesh now the bishop pair and a very nice position actually. ये charge कर रहे थे। तुमने निकल दिया। वंतिका इस इन टाइम ट्रबल। लेट्स चेक, बिकॉज़ वंतिका डस गेट इनटू टाइम ट्रबल क्वाइट ऑफ़न। वी कैन चेक एक्चुअली व्हाट इस हैप्पेनिंग। पीपल आर सेइंग द क्वालिटी इज़ ऑफ़ अ 2G कॉल। आई होप दैट दैट्स Let's see. Vantika has 23 minutes. Wow! Look at her opponent who's played really well. Nunes, Gonzalez Peguero, Mary Loli has played really well. And we have Harshit Pai here. Harshit Pai, when you talk, let's see if people can hear. Graduated to three G call.

Hello, hello guys. Can you hear me?

मुझे अपने को एक माइक का इंतजाम करना पड़ेगा। नहीं रोड माइक पे। Hi guys.

Can you hear me?

Yes, yes. They can hear you, bye. But we will. या फिर आप इसपे इसे तो ऑडियो परफेक्ट यस यस बोल रहे हैं पर आई डोंट नो ओह वाओ भाई आप इससे बात करो तब तक मैं वो दूसरा माइक लेके आता हूँ अच्छा भाई ये वाला गेम में विमेन्स बोर्ड वंस अगेन द कैमरा हैज वैनिश्ड तो आई विल गो एंड आल्सो टेल देम भाई इधर सब पहले दिन पे सब जुग नहीं नहीं भाई. You can be in equal position.

For 22 minutes.

22 minutes.

But I know her, I know Vantika. She always gets into time pressure, and then what happens is opponents को ऐसा लगता है they have this feeling that they are in a very good situation, and that's when Vantika turns things around. Exactly. So this is nothing to worry about, guys. This is actually very typical for Vantika to use a lot of time in the initial stage of the game. So no need to worry. Everything under control.

अच्छा, yeah. भाई आप तो tension लेते ही नहीं कभी। भाई अर्जित भाई you should take some tension off. By the way look at Savita's position also equal. भाई what are what is this team of Dominican Republic doing? They are playing so well. They are a good team. They are playing amazing.

I was actually in the Punta Cana and they have a lot of passion for the game. But guys, Savita Shri has a time advantage. What is the knight on g2 doing? It cannot go to f4. I— it cannot go to e3. Black is ready to go knight to d5 at some point. Not now, because we lose the pawn on a4.

Hi, I will play queen c2 next, huh, and sacrifice my knight on b7. That is my tactical idea, what I want to do. So you have to do something against it. Maybe now you jump in. Or you jump here.

Okay, there is of course this idea that at some point, let's say King h8, Queen c2, I just chop off this knight on c5. Queen takes, Queen takes c5, and let's say something like Rook to d5, Queen c2, you have to go back, and now I'll bring in my queen to d7, or queen to e6, let's say.

And actually, Bishop takes b6, c takes b6.

Yeah, you know It's not so difficult to win this. Yeah, I agree.

Actually, this position, actually, if you look at women's boards, Harshit bhai, be honest. Let's start from the get-go. This board is equal. Okay. One thing also equal, right? Nothing. Oh, she's a bit worse. She's a bit worse. Think about it. And then Vaishali was almost losing it, but she's winning. Now she's winning.

Okay, Vaishali is winning by one step at a time. At least that's good. What about Humpy? What about Humpy's board? Humpy here. Okay, stable advantage.

Slight better, and I think with the endgame coming, she will win. She is already looking good.

By the way, a very cool trick. I don't know if you showed it. What happens if knight takes a2? Did you show this trick? Not yet, guys. If knight takes a2, rook to a1, knight to b4, and white in general has a very cool concept.

Which is maybe not working here.

It might not work because black is threatening knight to c2 check.

But you want to jump.

Exactly. Knight to b6 because the rook on a8 is undefended. And when you slide the rook to b8, we can win the pawn on a7 or have this move bishop to f4 in the back of our mind to trap the rook on b8. And I think Hampi is in control. Board 2, Vaishal is in control. I am not so happy with how Vantika's position is right now. I think that's a Critical board for us right now. Board number three. If you can just go to that board once to see like what what is happening there. Mantika. Yes. And yeah, her situation is is is looking a little bleak here.

Castle. But you are a bit afraid that opponent can play a five, right?

No, white can play five. You mean Mantika is white?

And then knight c four and e six. But the problem is suddenly this is hanging and I just take and you lose. Exactly. So Vantika has to be very careful. But people are saying check Uzbek board. What is happening in open or what is happening on Uzbek board?

Okay, Nodirbek is in control. Yakubov winning. Okay, so far so good. Shamsiddin slightly better. I think Akim, this Akim bhai, he can hold this. Yeah, this this game is perhaps a board where Akim can hold with the black pieces. He is very good, very underrated. And let's now move on to the open board.

They were saying something. Maybe in women we should check. Will Rook Begim is winning?

Completely winning. Yeah, this is also complex but looks fine for black. Equal. Okay, by the way, the, the last board, board number 3, very hard to win with, uh, with white here. Very hard to win with white because it's extremely hard. This might just be a shake of hands. I mean, white will play, but black needs to do something drastically wrong to lose this.

Maybe this is board three and four is where the Uzbek team are slightly weak, right? Correct. Or board one, two, three is very strong.

Okay, let's go to the open section. As we saw the women's section there, how is Arjun doing? How is his game developed?

My Arjun played a very good move bishop e three because in my analysis I was playing rook d one and there check king h one and queen b six and we were getting into trouble with the white pieces. Black being so active.

Game of such small margin, you know, such small margins. Like this move bishop to e three controlling the c five square, controlling the black queen from coming into b six, and we are on the other hand ready with our own attack.

But by now if I play bishop b seven, I think f five is coming. Or f five play f five directly or you want to play a three?

Directamente. A three because a three anyways back sorry for that. Anyways, I think that after a three he wants to jump in with the knight to d three. So why to bait our opponent to playing into a move which he anyway wants?

And I think many people actually sometimes make this mistake to hit an opponent's piece.

And what happens is that it goes to a square which it anyway wanted to.

And I think all the people who are saying double forfeit for Uzbekistan that seems like a So I like Arjun's position here.

Thirty-five minute edge on the clock, a complex game looking good for him. Going to Nihal's board.

Hi, Nihal.

Yeah, I think this is one board which we can confidently say we are going to win because white has no counterplay. The bishop on C one is like a big pawn looking towards its own pawn on E three and rook on A three. So ये pawn मर जाएगा.

The whole about queen takes e7. I mean, it looks terrible.

Yeah, I think queen takes e7. You can just take knight takes c4, hit this rook, and follow it up with rook to e8, winning this pawn. White's king is just too weak now.

So let's say rook a1. Rook a1.

The black rook will shift towards e8. Takes h7. And boom!

You lose this as well. Why why why to do that? Take rook h8 and take the knight, right? That's a good point. But but but Queen g6. Yeah, I mean, white has many pawns.

Yeah, but the bishop is not playing in the game. This rook will join the attack, and black is completely winning. So Nihal actually has played really well, a very good start.

Actually, this pawn weakness, he has gone for it. And guys, remember, when Nihal actually went and took this pawn is when this pawn had become weak, and so he is going after that. Now with queen and knight. And he's, uh, he's starting where he left off.

He's picking it up right where he left off in GCL. Had an excellent tournament there, continues to show good form. Going to board number 3 of Gukesh, and I think, uh, we get to see a lot of positive signs from his board as well, as he has a very stable and nice strategic advantage. A bishop pair, weak black bishop on b7. And, uh, at some point White will go with knight to e5 and f3, e4, this break that you were highlighting. I think Gukesh is, uh, on his way to playing a nice smooth game with White, which is very nice to see.

And Vidit Gujarati is also, uh, doing well now because he managed to kind of trade his knight in the center and now has his pawns nicely He plays, but one cannot say that the opponent is worse or anything. So Tukpa has played well.

So when we see castling on opposite sides, we generally want one side to go towards the opponent king, and I think Vidit is one step ahead right now. He has this pawn on c5, pawn on d6, whereas for white it's not so easy to progress. If you go g4, yeah, pawn on f3 is delicate. If you go h4, well, you are not really going anywhere. So Slight teeny tiny bit of an edge for Vidit, and I think the open section may it it seems like the the boys are doing it.

Yeah, doing well. Yeah, doing well. Knight c two, and now Vidit has an option to push the pawn in the center. Maybe it's good, maybe not. Let's see.

By can we once take a look at Ding Liren's game by? Very curious, very curious to see how Ding Liren is going to do. He's playing on board one for China.

I think Ding should have played on board. You know, I love this. I love this.

I love this strategy of China. They have like in some ways permanently given Ding Liren board number one.

Yeah, and then we respect you a lot.

And you've seen that it's working for them. I mean, they did— they won the gold medal in World Team Championship. And somehow, you know, they have excellent camaraderie within each other. And why I want to see one good event from Ding, yeah. Like after he became the world champion, he was struggling. Such a sweet personality, and I would love to see Ding Liren getting back to his best shape. बहुत मजा आएगा to see that.

Yeah, it would be really, really cool to see Ding Liren back in shape. He is a sweetheart, and you know everyone loves him. He's one of those guys who never really wanted bad for anyone. Yeah.

And it feels like he is off to a good start as well. Has a small advantage on his board. I think they are playing against. I cannot see clearly, but I think one of the African teams is what is they're playing against? Is it Botswana? Uganda. They're playing against Uganda. A nice advantage for Wei there. Yuyangyi also completely winning. Xu Xiangyu also winning. So it feels like they are—

hi, I'm just calm. I've never heard of him. Yeah, I made an article on ChessBase India about it that you may never have heard of him, but he is the, uh, Chinese national champion. Really? Yeah, he's the national champion of China, and I think he also did very well in Asian championships, so he's very good. Wow. So someone, and young boy actually. Kong Ziyang Rui, guys, try to find what his age is. Yeah, he's quite young. And yeah, so these are some of the games of other players. We also looked at actually Germany. Germany is actually a strong team with Matthias Bluebaum. There is no Vincent Keimer playing today.

Oh, but he is in the team. He is in the team.

Okay, that's good to know. Patrick Swane is doing well.

Donchenko. And this is a team which can easily pull off an upset because if you remember the last time, Rasmus, sorry, defeated Gokesh with black.

So, maybe my feeling is if someone wants to bet on a team which is slightly underrated and really make like a visionary statement, they could bet on Germany. Germany is one.

Especially with Vincent Keimer on board one. just changes the entire perception of how we look at them.

Also, the thing is, 4th seeds are Germany, 5th seeds are Dutch. But I feel that Germany is more stable than Dutch because they have all youngsters, Germany. While in Dutch team, you have Anish and Jordan who are very strong. But then you have Erwin Lamy and Luuk van Velie who are like a little bit older players.

Right. Yeah. By the way, Anish having already a crazy game. Seems like he's doing well though.

Erwin Lamy, I think first round the Dutch team should also do it, and they have Chopin Casper on the last board. Yeah, bye.

Let's go back to our our our boys to see how they are doing. Actually, we if we we have any developments there.

Actually, for me the most interesting game is Arjun versus Laowira.

My f five bishop beta and f five on the board.

Why don't you want to first? Oh! Played. Bye, Harshit! Bye! You got Arjun thinking. Bye! That's insane. Yeah, he has played the move pawn to f5, and now the ball is in— Vantika is worse. Can we go there?

Because that was actually— Arjun is always going to do well, but this board of Vantika was quite critical for us, and she is going wrong.

She's low on time and she's worse. Ah, it would be a big upset. I'll quickly come back fixing the camera of the women's board.

And guys, we have 4 women players. I think 3 of them were doing quite well, but Vantika's board seems to be a little worrisome. She's down to 20 minutes, and, uh, you know, every board point is important because as we progress, proceed into the later stages Of the tournament, two-two result might not be enough for us if we don't have good board points. So Vantika needs to somehow make a comeback on this board. Guys, come on! पूरा एनर्जी देते हमारे दोनों men and women players के लिए. India OP हो जाए एक बार, guys. We need them to win four-zero. Not going to be easy actually first round में और you know first round में the players are settling in. वांतिका में भी डिड नॉट प्ले एनी टूर्नामेंट बिफोर, लाइक शी डिड नॉट प्ले इन द ग्लोबल लीग, बट शी हैज कम स्ट्रेट तू प्ले हियर। सो में भी शी इज़ जस्ट ट्राइंग तू गेट दोस नर्व्स सेटल्ड, बट शी नीड्स तू डू इट वेरी क्विकली, बिकॉज़ गोंजालेस, वीएफएम फ्रॉम द डोमिनिकन र और A4 के पॉन पे प्रेशर। इंडिया विल डू इट, इंडिया विल डू इट, but let's see what Gonzales will play here. We need some help from her. Rook to A7. The idea is to go queen to A8 and white knight C3 कभी भी खेला है तो black can just chop it off and that's the reason why Rook a7 is so strong in this position. Vaishali is completely winning. Really? Let's take a look. Yes, guys, Vaishali has a very, very good position, um, because, uh, she is currently up a pawn. You can see that she has 6 pawns Black white only has five pawns. Rook g8 is coming in quickly, so Vaishali is going to win. That's good news for us. Hampi also has a very nice advantage now. She has a plus one advantage right now. So Hampi is going to win. Vaishali is going to win. What about Vantika? Okay, Vantika is in slight trouble. What about Savita Shri? Because if Vantika is in some trouble, Savita needs to make sure that she doesn't get into a bad position. And I think she has a very nice position here. She's potentially wanting to go pawn to f4 in this position. I think Savita Shri might be a key player in this match for the Indian women's team. She might actually be a key player here. She needs to do well. For the Indian team, अरे नूतन टॉक्स. One day I will play in the Olympiad team. I would that would be a dream for me, of course, to do that. It's very tough, guys, to to you know qualify and play for the Indian team. You need to be at least 2700 to qualify, so it it's not going to be easy at all.

But you know I want to.

Just enjoy chess and play chess. I don't really have this rating goals of reaching 2700 per se. Okay, so Savita is trying to go f4, has a good position. Let's come back to Vanshika's board to see if her opponent has made a move. Not yet, no moves yet. Okay, her opponent is thinking, and some some of you are mentioning that Arjun is completely winning. Is that the case? Oh wow! Arjun suddenly has a very big advantage. Tiger by. To e eight was not a good move. Black had to take on f five, and after e takes f five. Play knight to d3, kind of just blocking this white bishop on b1. Now, with the last move rook to e8, Arjun can play pawn to f6, hitting this bishop on e7. The bishop has to go back and pawn to h4, and he's just going to crush on the kingside if he finds this. Arjun needs to go f6 and h4. Harry four, Harry five. I think he will do it, bye. The mics are back.

Let's go.

Okay, okay, okay, okay, guys. I think we are back. Harshit bhai, all good? Fixing it. आराम से प्लीज खालो। Guys, this voice should be good. Arjun Erigaisi's brave decision to push his pawn to f5 is met with a very, very inaccurate move by his opponent to play rook e8. Let's go! Perfect. Better voice. Better voice. Yup, it is better. Let's go, Harshit bhai.

This is really, really good news.

Perfect audio. And f6, good move. Ajubhai for the win! He's going in. Bishop f8. And now, Harshit bhai, we need to checkmate this king. But how? We need to trade these bishops and then get in with our queen and checkmate here. But not going to be easy. The best move here, guys, if you are an attacking genius, you will find it. White plays अरे यार हर्षित भाई has revealed a small hint saying if you like Harry Potter you will find the move. Let's go. Oh, Jaikar has sent quiz for the day. Let's go. Jaikar's quiz for the day asking immediately who is the oldest player playing in this Olympiad? I think it's not the right answer, Jaikar, because I know that there is someone who is 80-year-old who is playing in this Olympiad. So maybe this is not the right answer, but yes, H4. Let's go, guys! Right move here. H4 has been found by so many people. Also Shubhi Gupta in the chat. Wow, Shubhi Gupta. By the way, Harshit bhai, a lot of chocolate here. Oh really? Um, And H four, H five open up the position and attack. That is what you want in this. And meanwhile, we have a very famous personality just right outside our commentary booth. We have goofy, goofy chess here. Tushar bhai, maybe Amrita, we can call him later for a bit. If he wants to join us and do his very, very interesting commentary.

But I played.

Ha, sadistic Tushy. You can just say whenever he wants to join for five minutes, he can join us. Many, many creators have come, but Ajubhai does not play H four. He goes Queen F two and now gives an opportunity to his opponent.

But I don't think guys we should we should get a worried about this game because in general—

but why did Ajubai do this?

Because he has a clear plan. He has a clear plan of going Queen h4, Bishop h6, trading the defender of the g7 square. And practically, I find this move to be stronger than h4 because—

so let's say now I play the move Rook c8, Queen h4. Harshit Bhai is going for the kill, but here somehow it does not work. Just think about it, Arshad bhai. c3, very bad, very impossible, but still take. Rook takes, attacking your bishop. You go with the same plan here, and all of a sudden I give you a check. King h1, and there is no mate. In fact, black to play and crush it here, guys.

Even I cannot find this. Like, if I found this I would personally go to the orbiter and say that, "Bye, please ban me." It's too tough.

Oh, one thing is equalized, but here the move that is incredible. Rook f three. Boom! ये क्या move है?

And if you take with the rook, you get checkmated on the back rank. But this is not the crazy part. The point is that if you take with the g four, queen d four by d three पे bishop से मर रहा है राजू.

Sorry, sorry. Bishop with both sideways.

Queen d4, and somehow the rook on a1 is trapped because the bishop cannot move. And it was too tough. Black responds with queen to c7.

So same idea, bye. Oh, Lao Vera Pap, well done. Bishop queen h4, c3.

Black is doing well. Let's go, let's go. Bye. Tough. Bye. Queen h4 mate.

I know, I'm actually impressed by Lao Vera Pap. But you know his time is going low. He's down to 17 minutes. Meanwhile, Vantika, whose position has improved a bit here, has it? A little bit, yes. Not so sure whether his position, her position is very good. Knight is on C4. Bishop is here. The other knight can jump in.

Yeah, and somehow it feels like the white pieces cannot find. Space, right? The knight on B1. If I were to ask you and give you two extra moves, where exactly is that knight going to go? Because it doesn't have an outpost, as we like to call it, because the black pawns on D5 and C5 very nicely control the important squares. I agree, Harshibhai.

I think Advantika needs to focus here, needs to put all her energy, and energy and focus is needed when you are playing. This, and guys, do check out this the L band that we have on our stream. It's a new introduction, Harshit bhai. Yes. Looking good, right?

We we have the Neuro Energy and Focus Gum, which is the sponsor of this entire tournament. For Chess Base India. Ha. Not for the broadcast of this tournament for Chess Base India. And नहीं तो हर्षित भाई तो पूरा टूर्नामेंट कोई पूरा ओलंपियाड। I am I am sure Neuro hopes and plans to do it one day, but for now they are supporting ChessBase India. Vantika down to fifteen minutes.

Oh Nihal Nihal game. Nihal?

Everyone saying let's go to Nihal sir. Let's go let's go.

Bye Nihal जीतता रहेगा मेरे इजाजत से। It's happening. It's happening.

Bye वही हो रहा है जो आपने सोचा था। Bye Rookie eight and he's going to win. By the way, let's just show rook to e8. We saw if queen h7, we can just go rook h8 and win the go down h4. Queen d7.

And now let's think a bit. Oh my God!

No, let me think. Let me think. Oh my God! That is insane, brother.

Wait, wait, wait. Let me finish. Let me this.

It's done, bro. It's done, bro.

It's done, bro. So if I do rook g8, you go queen f7. If I go rook f8, you go queen e7. So this square is important, right? To control. Can I do king king d8?

I was thinking. And yes, Shubhi Gupta, Pranav Agrawal, Shrestha Vijay, Pratik Kumar. Not really, but close. Wilson Fernandez. Guys, four and half thousand of you watching. Do like the stream. This is day one of the FIDE Chess Olympiad.

Oh, I got it! Yes. भाई हमारे पीछे जो पीस है उसको use करो घोड़े को। E five. Yes. Because if takes f one is hanging otherwise rook f seven. Yes. Oh rook f seven ही आ रहा है। हाँ। But rook f seven को queen f six knight g four. Wow! I was thinking rook g eight takes rook h eight but okay this Is even stronger.

It's done, bro. Wow!

It's done, Harshit, bro.

Oh, by the way, Rook f8, Queen e7 on the board. And let's and we do have the camera of Nihal in the background there. A small you know.

Hi, let's have a look at what other cameras we have because we have some overview cams here. Oh my god! This is lovely, guys. Hi, ये ऐसे view के लिए मैं बहुत मरता था घर पे। When I used to watch live streams, I used to think I want to come to the Olympiad when I would see this. It's like chess is everywhere.

Oh, Knight e5 played! No way! Nihal has played perhaps the move of the day.

Wow! Knight e5 is on the board by Nihal Sarin. भाई, is this the focus move of the day?

This is definitely a candidate for the focus move of the day.

Let's do it. Yeah, this This is an incredible move because he focuses on the f1 square. And guys, it's time for us to bring in the Neuro Focus Moves of the Day. What an incredible move by Nihal Sarin.

Yeah, this is just brilliant.

You know, Nihal is too good.

You know, in terms of stability, in terms of someone whose performance doesn't dip a lot, of course there is Pragnananda, very stable player. But I do think it is also Nihal Sarin. You know, he has been super stable in his performances, and I'm very happy that he is going to give us the first point.

By Nihal Sarin is altogether turned a new leaf in his life. And guys, his story is one of those that is very impressive because at some point it felt like Nihal had slowed down. He had so much talent but was not improving, stuck in 2600. Hundreds. What was going wrong? No one knew. And in comes this phase. There was last year, Harshit bhai, where he became such a great player. He started experimenting. He started playing different things. Tell me, what was it that he did was different?

Consistency. I think that's the word that Nihal Karim. Well, consistently working on chess, consistently playing online. You know, we have known Nihal as one of the most Like, one of the best speed chess players. We saw how good he can play in the Esports World Cup, uh, yeah, the last year. This year as well, playing for SATUL. And, uh, you know, that consistency of working on chess, even though the rating did not catch up, has reaped benefits. Because all that hard work during, uh, when he was plateauing around 2670 has given him that boost.

Would I be wrong Right to say if I mentioned about the impact of Vishnu, who worked with him? Do you think he made an impact?

I think Vishnu also. Sethuraman, who recently joined his team, guys. Nihal has come to this tournament with his own second, and that is SP Sethuraman, top class grandmaster.

Guys, SP Sethuraman at his peak was 2680. What a genius! What a beast! And now he's like, "I'm going to help Nihal reach 2780." Why?

And it's not just about how strong Sethu is. Must energetic energy आता है. Very.

I love Sethu and his energy. I never loved his energy when I was his opponent. Why? His energy was too dangerous for me. In fact, I've played Sethuraman many times and lost every single time because same age group almost. By the way, Gukesh. Gukesh is Yeah. Gukesh's opponent, Alriami Farid Rashid, has knights on d6 and d7. और ऐसे थोड़ा सा घर जैसा चुपके से बनाया है, but I think Gukesh has a much more spacious position.

Yeah, and you know, at some point with the bishop pair, you would love to open the position up, and that's when this concept of going f3 and e4 comes into my mind, trying to just activate both of my rocket bishops towards the center.

Wow, F three four. If that happens, Harshit bhai, I am going to put my small one million dollars of Uzbek currency on stake. Really? That's only hundred dollars. चलेगा भाई। अरे हर्षित भाई ने तो ले लिया भाई। I used to put a house and all. By the way, guys, yesterday Harshit bhai became a millionaire here because the Uzbek Currency is really amazing. Like we have here, for example, here is one note that I have. Harshid bhai, if we can show our viewers, so you can see here this note is hundred thousand, hundred thousand. And its actual value is ten dollars, ten dollars or nine dollars.

By Sagar bhai did not become a millionaire because he was already a millionaire.

Because I live in India, not Uzbekistan. Otherwise, I would have been a millionaire here as well. Yes, going to Gukesh game, and he goes right now. He hasn't played his move. He's thinking here, and this is the position. Harshit bhai, I would love if Gukesh today manages to win a smooth game. It looks like he is moving towards it. Yeah, but there are people who. Are asking us to show Vidit's game as well, because Vidit's time, if you look, is 24 minutes, but he's playing well. I think the GCL really proved to be a very confidence-boosting event for Vidit.

Exactly. And, uh, I'm not so worried because he's used to playing in this rapid format. I mean, he needs to make 23 moves in 23 minutes, but in GCL he played the entire game in less than 20 minutes. So I think I'm not Worried about with its clock.

Yeah, I like his position. Do you think he should push the pawn forward?

I personally am someone who doesn't exactly like the move pawn to e4, and the reason is because it blocks my own bishop on b7. But he goes for it, and I think this is a small difference, uh, between me and these top players, because I have noticed that these moves which kind of, you know, uh, block the position, I am not very confident in playing them. So I'm— I need to consciously improve this because I love to play positions which are open, like with pawns.

Also, in your life, you like a lot of possibilities. I think it's the same on the board. You don't want to close down anything. You don't want to commit in general. Exactly.

So I think this is something that I would love to improve on.

In life or on the board?

Well, I think if I improve on one, it's likely that it might improve, uh, On the other aspect, do you want to start with the committee? But Vidit plays e four, which was in fact according to the computers the best move. So let's go! Vidit is doing really good here.

Vidit boy on fire. भाई विदित गुजराती इधर अकेले आए हैं। You know in GCL he had a lot of support. His wife better half Nidhi was there, and I'm pretty sure Nidhi is. Right now in Pune following this event, and Nidhi, if you are there, give us a shout out. I don't know how, but send us a hi, and I'm sure that everyone in his family are watching this. Yes, Nihal's game.

People are saying we have to go here because he is making some fire moves, and this has happened, guys.

Oh, rook h eight and h four is hanging. But let's just look at. Let's zone in here. Queen g seven. Harshit bhai, do you want to take? Here, or do you want to think? Because if I take here, fe5 is hanging. I'm pretty sure there are many good moves, but let's be very accurate.

I see an idea. I see rook h4, fe5, bishop h3. No, rook g4, game over.

Ah, rook g2. Oh, I was thinking king moves and then we win the f1 rook.

How? How do we win the rook? Yeah, king f2 पे आएगा ना?

Rook f8.

Oh, so I think Rook h4, fe5, bishop h3. That might be the winning move. Bishop h3. Oh wow, white can save here with rook f8.

Hi, what's this? How is it even so much better?

Rook f8 saves the day for white. Okay, so black still needs to show some accuracy.

So in fact, Nihal has to find takes And actually check is the correct move. King f and now not rook g two because of a beautiful tactic. Wow! This tactic should be known. Black to play and win, guys. What is the move?

Is it deflection or is it decoy? Deflection. Deflection.

Deflection from here. And look at Shubhi Gupta. Bye, guys. We have a genius in our chat. Do you know Shubhi Gupta could have very well made it to the Indian? Team of women players. That's how strong she is. Wow! Look at I think she was Shubhi Gupta Fide. If we just look at her, she is right there at the top. Her classical rating is two three three five. But if you look at her progress, her Elo was two four two six. Okay. And now it has come down a bit, but she's. Stabilizing into a very strong player because Harshit bhai, she's born in 2010. She's only 16 years old. Okay, now I'm going to ask tough questions knowing that Shubhi is in the chat.

Let's go, Shubhi!

You are actually pushing everyone. Bishop h3 check takes and Queen f1.

This is, this is going to win, uh, black the game. Rook h4 played. Rook takes h4 on the board.

My Marthya Nihal Sarin is playing like a Yes, takes. But now what do we do about King f2? This is not yet completely solved because I wanted to play Rook f8 check, but simply Queen takes f8 is hanging. Yeah, I think, Arshid bhai, it's time for us to move our queen in to attack this rook and the pawn.

And the pawn— the d5 pawn is critical here. You're right. And This or this queen e four also becomes a huge threat.

And this nice wow it's a beautiful move.

And for Nihal to have foreseen this a few moves back shows the kind of a visualization he he has had about this position.

Right. And by the way everyone saying show us Yakubov game but guys Yakubov's game is going on he's about to checkmate his opponent look at this it is not a forfeit I don't know where you are getting. Your information from. He is playing on. It's not going to be over. Meanwhile, we have Akeem.

Ah, he's going down, unfortunately.

Well, it does happen when you play strong opponents. Especially, you have to keep that energy, Harshit bhai. It's like, it's like, um, you know, arguing with a very strong lawyer. You may be able to answer a few questions, but at some point the lawyer will.

Yeah, they will.

प्रवेश दे विल ट्रिक यू। I use lawyer, but it could very well be sometimes the better half of yours who will generally ask you very tough questions again and again, and you can collapse. And talking about better half, Samruta is here. Hello, Samruta. Hello, hello. What's the update? Hello.

First of all, I am the better quarter right now. Why? Because if we have the ratio of our weights. Okay, just kidding.

Too good. But anyway, nice. And Amruta, by the way, people are saying in this view it feels like on my head there are these two horns that are there.

You are covering the night. But you know what, Sagar? Just like first of all, a big thanks to Oost Chess because they are helping us for the mic. I mean, they are really trying. Miro is trying. The team is trying. And I think maybe one of the mic will be able to. Figure it out. Otherwise, one secondhand road mic we have found. He's found at Tashkent. I don't know how long it takes. Also, Mike from chess.com is trying to see, is trying to help if nothing happens, and so on. So people are very kind. Like when you are in a problem, you realize how how kind people are in general.

So yeah, that's what. Thank you, Amruta, for your kindness. Hey, तुमने बताया ना kindness. लोगों का एंड बाय द वे निहाल हैज़ फाउंड दिस मूव एंड आई वॉन't बी सरप्राइज़ आफ्टर किंग एफ टू ओह विल यू प्ले क्वीन सी फोर लेट्स सी लेट्स लेट्स सी निहाल द मूव कैन वी गो फुल स्क्रीन ऑन इस बोर्ड ओह फॉर शर्ट एंड देयर इज़ निहाल वी कैन आल्सो ट्राई एंड सी व्हाइट व्हाइट भाई Get a board, but I will try, Harshit bhai. Bye. We can just wait to see if he makes the board without without here without.

As soon as he makes the move, we'll. Sagar, you try, Harshit bhai. You have to encourage Sagar to try that out.

Harshit bhai does not have too much of faith in me.

Yeah, why will he? He's not your wife.

What? I think Harshid bhai was right. थोड़ा relax करते हैं। We will we will bring the board in this view very soon, but right now we do see Nihal thinking your.

And queen c four is the move, guys. That yeah, this is the key move.

Actually, queen d three also works, Arshid bhai, because of queen f five threats and so on.

Yeah, just need to bring the queen into the action, and he plays it.

Oh no! What did he play? He plays the move. नहीं नहीं भाई. No, he plays the move and gets up. And we have our very well known. Subscriber Queen C4. Maybe he should be playing many more rounds. For sure, he should not rest.

No, but he is, he's for sure a very key player for our team.

I saw Nihal in the full trip when we are coming from Bangalore to, uh, and he was so chill, you know, like I say, but he's very, very, uh, very sensitive. Yeah, like you tell him Something and he's always like oh, like for example when he got to know that Amruta was not feeling well in the flight, he was like oh, like you could see his expression. Very kind, very kind person loves very competitive. I have to say, I think in general guys if you get a chance to meet any of the ten players of Indian chess, whom would you like to meet is a good question. Very good question because I think many would like to meet Gukesh him being the world champion. But if you also get a chance to meet Prabhav, what about you?

Or if you could spend a dinner with one player, what player would that be?

I think I would try to sit with Nihal for some time because I really think he is this guy who has a great balance of being competitive as well as kind. How can you have both? Right. And he switches very quickly. Correct. Game ख़तम होते ही kind हो जाता है। Game के वक्त he's like, I want to win.

How does he do it? By the way, everybody is kind.

Oh, in the chess.

Yeah, but somehow Nihal is bit more sensitive, I feel, than all.

By the way, Queen c4, Rook d2 played by Nihal's opponent Pulpri Thanon, and here Nihal can simply slide the queen over to e4, threatening Rook to g5.

Oh, there's also another beautiful move, Arshid. By take the pawn on g5 and Queen h4 check is also coming.

Queen h4, Rook f5 check. Beautiful, beautiful.

King को घेर लिया है, that's just very amazing. And we have a guest who can say hi to all of us here, and it's one and only the famous YouTube creator here. We have Sadistic Tushy here. Hello! Where's the? Oh, there's the guy. Here you are. Oh, this is my. My आप बैठो तुषार भाई. How are the games going? I was not following anything. Well, India is doing well in general. We are following majorly Indian games, but also other games as well, some of them. So, uh, Nihal is completely crushing right now. Oh, okay, they're playing Thailand. Nice. Yes, I was mostly following the Uzbek game because on board 4 they're playing, uh, Aki. Chess with Aki. Yeah, that's why I was following. He was doing so well. He was doing so well. Now he's losing. Yeah, now he messed up in the endgame. So that was my main focus, which was I was following like every move. I was following. By the way, I must say that, uh, Tushar is right now gained 100 Elo because his last flight trip he was sitting next to Arjun and Mukesh. Next tournament I play, I crush everybody.

Yeah, they give me all the tips.

Did you tell them you opened all your games with f3, King f2 in one tournament? I didn't get the chance to They would have been quite upset with that.

Really? It's a good opening. I'm telling you, bon cloud f3 king f3.

Guys, can you believe it? Tushar here played which was the tournament? Maya Chess Festival in Portugal. And it was a serious event. It was under 2000. Under 2000. I was like ninth or tenth seed. And you finished second. I got fourth. Fourth place by playing all the games. F3 king f3. Whatever opponent played, you would do this. Yeah, I do. This, Arshid bhai. Do you approve as a grandmaster?

It's a good opening. You know, I was somehow like a bit too principled to play f three king f two. But if but it's a very good way to throw off your opponent. It gives you such a good psychological advantage. Yeah. They have to think on this.

What do you do after this? To try to manually castle. How? And you see, the plan is simple: flag the opponent.

Flag the that's the plan. Flag the kid.

Why you are playing classical chess, right? Yeah. Ninety minutes is not that much time. They start thinking. They start overthinking. There was no increment. There was increment. Increment either. And there's also forty minutes extra after thirty moves. So they had all the time.

But I'm like, I can flag them. It's very easy. Yes. It's very easy. Just play this. Don't blunder.

Okay. Tell me where to how to get these two pieces out. All right. Let me. So what I used to do. Oh wait wait. We don't have the board. Oh my God, sorry guys. Yes, now we have the board. Sorry. So my plan was to push this pawn, this pawn, this pawn, and then go bishop here and king there. Oh, that's what my Bong Cloud theory tells me about. Wow, that's a cow and Bong Cloud mix, it seems. But like, in the last round, I did something even crazier. Okay, last round I was 1 half point behind the champion. So, if I win, I have a chance. If, like, he draws and my tiebreak is better, I win the entire tournament. I get black, and everybody after round 5 started preparing against this.

They would do, like, one opponent, one kid who had no life prepared 20 moves of theory against Bongcloud.

No way! He showed me the Lichess study after the game. So, what do you do then? So, I was like, the last one, there's some 14-year-old kid, he prepped like crazy. So, I was like, okay, oh, he played d4. I played f6, then he took the center, then I went king here, and as soon as he played check, I knew he prepared because this is like the engine way to counter the Bongcloud. So to prepare against him— no way, did you go king e8 back? No, no, no, I went queen here. No, I played, uh, what is this? I played queen e8. This is what Hikaru plays here. Yeah, queen e8. This is what Hikaru plays, and then he went For like normal development, and then I went king here, and then I went knight here, and then I went king here. And I did not lose that game, and he was 1940. But you are losing a pawn, my friend. I mean, I can push it and I can take it back. Oh, see, that was my prep. Crazy, man. He was 5 points below rated than me. Do you know what the engine is saying right now? Minus 6. But it's only— well, it's not that बाद एंड आई ड्रू दिस गेम सो आई डिड नॉट लूज ही डिड नॉट टेक द पॉन ही वेंट समवेर्स बट ये दैट्स गाइस इफ तुषार यू गेट अ चांस टू मीट हिम एट द ओलंपियाड लर्न फ्रॉम हिम हाउ टू प्ले द बॉंग क्लाउड ओपनिंग आई थिंक यू में इवन मेक राइट अ बुक और समथिंग ऑन दिस आई मीन आई वाज व वर्जिंग दे एंड देन प्लेइंग इट ऑन अमेजिंग हर्षित कैन यू बीट हिम विथ एफ थ्री किंग एफ टू आई मीन हीज़ मच स्ट्रॉंगर इट्स इजी फॉर हिम बट कैन यू डू इट इजीली नो विथ एफ थ्री आई थिंक अगेंस्ट हिम प्लेइंग द बॉंग क्लाउड इफ समवन प्लेस इट विल यू फील अनकंफर्टेबल या आई डोंट नो ह Throughout the event, I'm here for at least one week. One week. Ah, you don't have a ticket or anything? Oh, and how are you liking the vibe of the Olympics? Like, this is my first time ever to any Olympiad, so obviously not been the India one or the Budapest one, but the venue is so nice. You love it? Yeah, I love the venue, the playing hall. Like, even this area is so nice. I was playing so many games here. Ah, it's beautiful. Well, we are all looking forward to your content. Guys, if you do want to know more about him, they can follow you Goofy Chess Live on Instagram. On Instagram and also on YouTube. Yeah, Sadistic Tushi on YouTube. Very interesting content. And if you're good, you can watch my videos and you'll become bad. I mean, me and Levy work in opposite circles. He tries to make you bad, take you to 2000. I make you Back to zero. Back, we're taking back so everyone can be there. Yeah, same. But is Anish Giri approved? Anish Giri loves this channel, so do check it out. Thank you, Tushar bhai, for coming and joining us. See ya. You can give us the mic. And guys, such amazing people are here at the event. And Amruta, what do you want to say?

No, Vivaswan had super chatted. He was very happy to see This I think his super chat is gone right now, but thank you so much. He said hi to Sagar, to 69 GM, to me, and was asking about the wife, which I guess Tushar you know explained everything what's happening.

By the way, Savita, oh Nihal is also winning completely, totally winning Amruta, and and he won, he won the first point for the Indian team.

Let's go, Amruta!

Let's go. One of the guys chat में भी है five thousand people. We want five hundred Niall OPs.

Guys, we want few likes also. We have actually tried to set up the stream here. Bring you India OPs. Bring all the people. Can we get Niall here?

भाई, it will be epic. There is a fifteen minute delay though. So him I don't know what the situation is. But guys, India OP हो जाए for every single win.

Let's go, one zero and very nice. He beat a twenty-two hundred rated player with a very smooth game and really the game shifted in his direction. Guys, if you were following this move with this blockbuster move, Harshit would say bim bim boom boom bam boom move. Bishop takes c three, takes spoils the structure and then just plays on all these squares with his. So great play, fantastic game by Nihal. And now Gukesh moving on to him. Gukesh ऐसा लग रहा है ना हर्षित भाई धीरे-धीरे खेल रहा है। He's not in a hurry. He's maneuvering his pieces.

And we've actually approached in some ways the rapid stage of the game. Black has dipped below ten minutes. Gukesh has a healthy time advantage of twenty six minutes. Remaneuering his knight to e five because now black cannot kick the knight. Away with the move pawn to f6, and you see you can see how he waited for black to play f5, and only now goes knight d3 because the pawns cannot go backwards. And I think Gukesh is in very good shape.

Right, Gukesh is doing very well in this game, and at this point I think we don't have too much trouble in that one. What about Arjun? Because that game was the most interesting according to me.

By the way, Vidit.

Is also almost winning now. भाई विधित का structure पूरा ही change हो गया ना? Yeah. So we left it off at E four. E four takes G takes knight to F six. Aditi Singh Rathod says if India wins double gold today, should we make our relationship public?

अरे भाई भाई। भाई को पूछा है अभी she has been a big fan of हाँ भाई। If India wins double gold, then I would love to you know know who you really are, Aditi.

What your what your alias is?

Will you be the first one on chess? We will launch chess matrimony. Yeah. And you will be the first ambassador for that.

Ambassador. Ambassador. I don't have to be on the. Ah.

You will be on the profile over there.

Sure. Oh. I mean depends on.

नहीं नहीं नहीं तो नहीं चाहिए सब। oh विवस्वान दामले send it again sorry विवस्वान we missed your first one what is one wild prediction from each of you hoping for गुकेश return to form my prediction is गुकेश scores eight and half out of nine in this tournament I think yeah let's go अमृता no wild prediction is India winning gold because it is going to be wild that is wild it's not easy to win yeah to defend the title is Very difficult. She thinks double gold.

I think Nihal Sarin will give the most points for the open section.

Wow, guys, these are our wild predictions. Let's see what happens. Savita is winning. Oh really? The women's board. Are the women's cams back? Yes, yes, let's go, let's go! Thank you guys for having this up. She's winning completely because we, we left it Here, and we thought the position is complex.

No, bhai, she was doing well, bhai. This H four, I think white should have focused playing on the queen side. Yes. And this is where you know the strength of a stronger player comes in. F four, and she was just playing on the wrong side of the board there, white. Savita nicely. And Savita nicely gets her pieces in.

Yeah. And now actually, guys, Harshit bhai, maybe it's a good time to tell our viewers a bit about Savita because. She's a new entrant, right? And not many people may know her. Yeah, but if you can see, she's right there at the 4th board. She's just about to make her move. I knew Savita from a very young age. In fact, she's 2007 born, a year younger than Gukesh. In that Under-11 Nationals where we went and Gukesh said, I want to become the youngest world champion, the Under-11 girls champion was Savita. And since then, her trend has been moving up, but she kind of got stagnated around the 2400 mark. But now she's picked up again, become— she became the Asian champion recently, playing really well. And I feel like this is the event where Savita says, I also belong where Vaishali, Divya, everyone is. I want to come back.

Well, this is the kind of stage where she can prove that. This is the opportunity that she has gotten for her Her amazing play in the recent few months, and I think she's doing well. So far, she's on a great start with the black pieces.

And Vivashwan has mentioned Savita was also supported initially by the Super Chat funds and Help Chess.

Oh wow! What a memory! Hi, Vivashwan. कहाँ से कहाँ भाई?

We have had a lot of people of you plus some special people who have supported her journey. This is she comes from a very humble. Background, so for her to reach here is amazing.

Why and it's really people supporting and then they are playing in Olympia. Isn't it a big success?

This is a huge, huge, huge storyline. Huge that because of all of your support, guys, they are you know some of these players are exploring their full potential. Savita is winning, but Vantika's board was the one where Vantika is getting better.

But the super chats sorry did the help. Memberships also gave laptop to Savita Sagar.

Ah, yes, once. No one remembers that also.

So guys, all of you have played a big part over here for Savita to be in Olympia in indirect ways.

Yeah, and thank you all for contributing to Help Chess. We have had four contributors today. Archit bhai, one of them, Arjun Tyagi, contributed fifteen thousand rupees. Wow! So all those who are here watching this, we will be doing this fundraiser on Help Chess during the whole of Olympia. We hope to raise a lot of funds. Remember, we are supporting the young talents of Indian chess with this money, and it has been invaluable. Your support.

Yeah. By the way, Vantika is getting back, and suddenly the situation of the women's team seems really promising because Savita is winning on board four. Vantika now has an advantage.

Vantika's position is not yet clear, right, Arshid bhai? Because while she does have these two But you know, getting rid of the d5 pawn—this was huge.

Black could not have possibly allowed to give that control of the c5 and d5 pawns. But she takes on e4. This was the mistake from black. She should have kept those pawns. She takes, and now I think Wantika can bank on her outside pawns on a4 and b5 to perhaps win the game.

Yeah, I think they are definitely going to sing the song today.

चले चलो चले चलो सागर हम हमसे जीतना पाए चले चलो चले चलो कहीं और अंधेरा छा पाए चले चलो चले चलो time लेकिन वंदिका has been known to get into time pressure but also managing it well she has eight minutes she's doing well she's doing well what about वैशाली twenty moves to be made वैशाली जीत completely जीत जीत for वैशाली wait a second Where is the winning idea though? Because it's completely winning. Maybe there is some Queen g6, Rook h5 stuff. But we also don't need a direct win.

We are a pawn up. White's king is completely exposed.

Uh, we are slowly but surely going to win.

The Rook f5, Rook f4 is a nice idea.

I like the rook on h4, h5. Basically you have to get the rook to h5.

Yeah, and that's a rocket there. Beautiful bishop there.

That's called maneuvering.

And we have a very special guest. Would you like to say hi to our chat? I can say hi. Yes. Wow, we have a very special person here all the way from Poland, and our very good friend Lukasz Turla is here. Hello, Lukasz! Hello, hello, sir. Lukasz, it's so amazing to see you. And Lukasz, by the way guys, is a very strong chess player, but is a big, big promoter of chess. Lukasz, how are you finding the environment in the Olympiad?

It's spectacular. Yes, yesterday the opening ceremony. I think this is something that we are expecting at the top sport events, and so it's very nice to see the drone shows, all these dancers. Amazing feeling that 200 countries are coming to one place in the earth and we can celebrate together.

Amazing. And for all the people who are watching this for the first time, the Olympiad, you are here, what would your recommendation be? Because you have attended many Olympiads. What should they do here?

For the people who are coming here?

Here, and also watching from home, and, you know, just to get into this feel of the Olympiad.

For people who are coming here, I think there are so many interesting things to do. There are some companies selling equipment, promoting their, their stuff, some IT solutions. It's possible to meet some stars like yourselves and Amruta. So this is also an opportunity that there are so many content creators coming to one, to one place. You can buy some t-shirts, just breathe with chess.

I bought already for my brother. Okay. Today is on 1st October, so I already got some amazing merch from FIDE Store.

Wow, that's amazing. Yeah, there are some great ones here. And for those watching back from home, they can root for their favorite teams.

They can root for favorite teams, but also I know that people are following other teams. Okay, we have both grandmasters, top players of the world, but we have I think this is the biggest sport event where in one sport you have 200 countries playing. You don't have any other sport event like this. Okay, you have in football qualifications, probably more countries are playing, but for the World Cup you have only like one-third of them coming, and here you have everyone. So this social part of this, that chess players from all around the world They're coming, are able to meet people, top grandmasters meet between each other, create some friendship. The social aspect of it is amazing.

Wow, that's such a great point because, you know, if you move out from here, you bump into people from countries which you have never visited, never met. And I think that's the beauty of our sport, that it connects everyone in the world. And at Olympiad, you can see it in full light.

And and here the way how it's prepared in one playing hall.

Ah, there's only one playing hall, right? Not double two three.

There is a playing hall for the Olympiad for people with disabilities, but they are playing in the hotel, of course.

In the minion.

Yes, yes, because of course it's more more convenient. But it's the first time that the the Olympiad Chess Olympiad and Olympiad for People with Disabilities is being played in one city at the same time. Wow. So this is also very important because these people are just amazing, amazing what they achieved, how strong they are playing chess, and also to be in the same hotel, to meet, meet grandmasters in person, it's, uh, just spectacular.

Amazing. Well, Lukáš, thank you for, you know, Sharing this with us. Any hopes that you have from the Polish team looking for a medal? Can tell us a bit about the Polish team? Who are the top boards? Is Jan Szystów Duda playing?

Yes, it's Jan Szystów Duda. We have a very young team because Radzik Wojtaszek was playing for the team for many, many years, and we had very strong top two boards Wojtaszek and and Duda. And in Batumi, we we came very close to the gold medal.

I think last round was India Poland.

In India against against India, it was a draw. But Radek Wojtaszek, I think it's not the secret anymore, will become a father. So both Radek and Alina are not not playing here. But in the open section, we have Janusz Dostov Duda. And very young players. Szymon Gmolas, 2650, Polish champion.

He's a Polish champion.

Polish champion. And 3 very, very young, young players. 18 years old, Kuba Szymon, he's 2550, but during last European Championships he was easily playing very good against 2650 players. And and they really want to win every game. Jan Malek and Kuba Kosakowski.

Maybe for some of our viewers, these names are not saying much, but they are they are like they are the future of Polish chess, and very likely they will go on to become the top players in the world.

Yes, yes, it's we have good coaches, as you know.

Yes, and of course, the coach of Bukesh. Gajewski is from Poland, and I think India and Poland have this amazing crossover of chess starting from Vishy Anand, who was working with Wojtaszek, Gajewski, and now Gukesh, who has continued that. And I think also you had organized an event for Gukesh to come, and just after he became the world champion, and meet all the youngsters in Poland.

Yes, it was last year we rented a theater like in the old times. So on the stage only one board. Uh, before it was, uh, Jakub Simon and Patrick Cieslak playing the, the match to, to warm up the spectators, and then 6 games of blitz between Duda and Gukesh. Full room. Some Indian people who are living in Poland, um, the embassy decided to come from Warsaw to Katowice to see the match. The business partners who are already in Indian market, Polish companies, supported the match. And Madame Ambassador, High Commissioner of India to Poland, was saying chess is one of the greatest links between Poland and India. And to everyone everyone watching at home, I think Indian chess players, Gukesh, but so many others, are such amazing ambassadors of the country. Wow. Of the country. When you are following their career, following what they are doing, you can learn a lot about Indian people, not only about these chess players.

That's so nicely put. I think it gives a lot of perspective to our viewers that these players whom they see right now on the स्क्रीन और देखें कि वहाँ बहुत ज़्यादा है। वे उनके लिए अम्बेसडर्स हैं। धन्यवाद बहुत-बहुत। धन्यवाद। फॉर बीइंग हियर और और अलसो फॉर सपोर्टिंग चेस, लुकाश, हम उम्मीद करते हैं कि आप फिर से जल्दी आएं, आप जानते हैं, और सबके लिए बहुत-बहुत शुक्रिया। मैं याद करूँगा कि वर्ल Guys, that was Lukas Turley, one of the big supporters of chess, doing incredible work for spreading chess all across the world. And we have Menno here who has found us a solution, or what? Yes, this is like a solution. So what we do is we clip this here. Okay, we put this here. Oh my God! And now you have like a clip microphone. Oh my God! The other one goes in the other receiver. Man, I can join your stream. You know, Menno is a man of solutions. Let me come and sit to you. Oh, let's go for two minutes for helping us because now we have. Is the sound okay, guys? Is the sound doing well? Because this is what Menno has managed to give us. Yeah, it's just a microphone to make life easier and. not to hold this microphone. Yes, yes, people are saying good sound. Yes, yes, but you can move and now the microphone will go with you. Wow. I had to bring my bag as like backup. I said, well, you need this quality 5G sound. And guys, Menopause is the man behind all these cameras here that you can see. For example, look at this, we can just quickly in one shot see the entire Indian team here. Yes. Maybe you can also see the other overview cameras that are there. Some incredible shots. Look at this. This is all done by Menno, Lennart, and their entire team together. So fantastic work, Menno. You are actually— you were called up to Uzbekistan very close to the Olympics, and you managed to set up this entire thing in what, 4 or 5 days? Well, yeah, it's, it's, uh, by like 8 days before the, uh, the, the event, I was asked because of, uh, a team fell out. So I said, well, we'll come. And we did so many tournaments a couple of past months. Maybe you see, uh, USA-Uzbekistan, the tournament, or you saw, uh, Sofia, or we had the, the Naroditsky Memorial. We were both there. Oh yes. So we are, we're used to setting up Big venues quite fast nowadays. Amazing. Menno, there is a small request I have, and I think all the viewers here, more than 5,000 watching, would it be possible in the coming rounds to put slightly more cameras on Indian boards?

Yes.

If that is possible, because right now— What happens is this is an open tournament. First is draw, and then they play better, they win, they win, they get on the top boards, and there will be more broadcasting. So I suspect— Well, India is missing out on the top board by only one. They are on board 3 and board 2 in women.

Well, it will, it will happen in the coming days, guys.

So it is incredibly tough to put cameras on each board, monitor them, make sure each and every camera is working. If you go inside the room, there's a huge screen where there are all these little, uh, boxes of camera which they are monitoring. We have 70 cameras here.

70? 70.

Wow.

So there's a lot to choose from, but we chose on the top boards because people want to see the top matches. But on like the 10 boards, there's one camera, so you can switch to the lower boards, lower team matches, and see, uh, them also. Uh, but, uh, tonight we're gonna add more to it because, uh, we had very little time to build Let's go! So the Indians will— Day 1 was all about making sure everything runs, and now you will expand. For instance, the, the camera on the ladies was a little bit fake because somebody ran over the camera and fell down, so it broke. So we fixed it like half, but I will replace it tonight. Okay. Yes. Well, Menno, thank you so much. A big shout out to you and a lot of love from all our viewers. Want it now? And thank you for coming here.

Yes, definitely test it out.

Thank you. That's a very thoughtful, thoughtful gift.

Already I think once when Menno had given this connection of laptop. Yes. No, no, I'm giving it to you. Yeah, made it very easy and you still used it. So yeah, I said, said Harshit bhai.

And Harshit bhai is back because we need to analyze Some chess, Harshit bhai. Arjun Eric I C is actually has to find the only move, Harshit bhai here. Uh huh. And that only move don't see here. What will you play as white? Guys, try to think. It's not an easy move. Arjun has sixteen moves and kudos to Prin sixteen minutes. Prin Lahawira Park has played very well.

Why do you need to convert it into advantage or otherwise is If he doesn't play this move, the position is equal.

He's better right now. You can see the bar and you can see Arjun on your screen.

I somehow I'm a big fan of Queen H four always.

But Queen H four with the idea of Bishop H four is what Harshit Bai wants to do, which is very logical, Harshit Bai. But perhaps there is something better.

Yes. Knight G five, Queen E five.

Amruta, please take a seat for some time because people are. No, no, no.

I want to stand for some time. You guys are entitled players, so I'm just giving respect. Please, please sit. Don't you want respect?

No, no, no respect.

You always ask. No, you never ask for respect. But are you sure?

Yes, I mean, I would be.

No, no, I'm also tired. But I'll adjust the camera.

No, no, it's fine. I'm here. I'm here. अरे I don't Think what is the move?

Okay, I'm looking at knight g5, and he he did not play it.

Did he play something?

Oh, we have bishop takes d3 on the board, and rook takes d3. भाई प्रिन इस क्रेजी। The move by the way was pawn to h4, trying to soften up black's kingside, and also making a square on h2 for the king. If takes, then Knight d two somehow that was very tough.

Wait a second, knight d two can we go bishop d five and then you win the d three knight?

Yeah, but why not bishop?

Then you win the c four. Yeah, but this was very tough.

This knight d two was already.

No, not rook takes knight takes c four. The knight takes here. Yeah, and now d three under pressure. Knight could jump to d six maybe.

Yeah, that is a good plan, but yeah, it was tough guys. Currently, white is actually in a slightly difficult position because black has this important pawn on d3, and it's not so clear how he is going to put pressure on the black king there.

But Arjun still go for h four h five.

Is Arjun going to checkmate his opponent somehow? H four h five.

I think so. I still feel that Arjun is going to manage and convert this.

But pap ने बहुत ही अच्छा किया। Why not pap? Prince, Prince Lahavira Pap. Yeah.

If Prince, if Prince doesn't lose this, then he will become the Prince for us. Yeah.

He has six minutes forty seconds. Ten more moves to make. Oh my god!

Is it Gukki blunder? No way. Can we check?

Whoa!

Gukish's position is equal now. No take on E5. I thought. This was good position for Gukesh.

Yeah, Knight f7, f4, h5. He goes pawn to— no, Bishop f3, g6, and b4.

b4. But King g2 was very risky.

He has 2 minutes for his opponent.

And we can see Gukesh on the screen, guys. There's no Nihal. Bishop b5, but game is over. He's winning now. Bye.

Do we have the result also? Guys, white to play. Can you think of a good move over here? And it Can be a massacre. How to launch the rocket? And guys, if you want to improve your understanding on dark squares and light squares, do check out the book Black and White. It's by Axel Smith, very famous author.

Chess with India shop में जाके चेक करें। भाई तो इधर Queen e six खेलना चाहिए था ना शायद Knight d eight में and Knight e six.

The knight is a great defender of passed pawns, but after Blockader Blockader sorry. Wow. And after Bishop b five E six, yes. Ankush Srivastava, Shrija Chaudhary, Derya, Aryan pawn to E six. Oh but Queen!

भाई ये बहुत tough है। No it's not even Queen D four.

Queen D four is a blunder because of Queen E three check. Oh so we need to play E four and then Queen D four. Exactly. Let's go. If Mukesh finds this, that will be epic. If Mukesh finds this, he's in good form. If he doesn't, I think he won't. He won't.

अरे भाई ऐसा क्यों बोल रहे हो भाई?

ऐसे लग रहा है मेरे को। नहीं but this is not the only way. Then you do not complicate. You can keep it simple. People have mentioned queen d four the other move, but with the similar.

Oh, Vaishali won.

Let's can we check? Yeah yeah for sure.

Oh and we have six thousand people.

Guys, let's go. Let's go. Can we just make sure? Oh wow! Bye Vaishali. Checkmated.

Let's go, let's go, Vaishali! I want to see the final moves over here because this was supposed to—

she goes for this, Rook f4, g4. What? Yeah, she was— she panicked there. Rook takes g4, and what a beautiful knockout combo there. Rook to g1, love it! And then Bishop takes f3, and Vaishali has checkmated her opponent from From the Dominican Republic, first win for the women's team comes from Vaishali. Vamos! Okay, good win. We go back.

Oh yeah, do you know, did we also see Humpy? Uh, what is she doing? Her opponent has left. Completely winning. Totally winning. 2 pawns up. That's good.

And what about, uh, board Avantika's board?

Avantika, she is getting better and Fighting, so that's good news. C five is a weak pawn, as you pointed out, Amrita there. Knight takes G five, and Savita is a rook up.

Wow! This game will be over.

So India might win four nil in the women. Yeah. And while in the open, Arjun's game is critical.

Let's go to Arjun's board. I think that's the most critical board.

Even Bhukesh did not find E six, by the way. If we can just quickly check back, circle back on Bhukesh. केश, because after bishop b five he played he hasn't made he's thinking not played a move but he can go queen c three is also good सागर and e six both are good yeah so queen c three also I don't know if people are able to hear me or not guys can you hear अमृता well because we have the mic me and हर्षित भाई but अमृता's voice already is so good that it reaches people अमृता can we go to अर्जुन's game Yeah, let's go to Arjun's board.

That's a critical board.

Yes, they can, they can. We can hear her.

And now four minutes for Lahovira Pap. He needs to make nine more moves. He has held Arjun to equality until now, but this is the most critical stage of the game.

H four आ चुका है, H five आने वाला है। यहाँ पे sacrifice something. Something is going on.

Oh, by the way, we have a result as Koneeru Hampi wins her game. Wow, so the 2nd Indian player on the women's team to win her game.

And there you can see the, the camera is a bit zoomed in because, as Menno said, it did break when someone pushed it. So right now we can only see the, uh, sheets being given to each other. And this means that the Indian team is leading two to zero. Let's go with focus and energy. Neuro focus, guys. This is incredible win for India and Humpy. Well done. Well done to Humpy.

Savita Shri about to win her board as well on board number four. But we were going to stay on this board on the board of. Arjun with the white pieces. He just played the move pawn to h4. He's going towards h5 and somehow h takes g6.

By actually, it's very interesting that oh that India is leading two nil in the women and one nil in open.

Yeah. If h5 g4 should be over.

Yeah. Yeah. I think. That's a very good plan to just blast open the kingside. Can we get Arjun's camera as well? And yes, we have it here. Arjun has played his move. Pap looks a bit nervous because he only has two minutes. And did he play H five? He played it. No, no, no. Yes, he did not. H five has been played.

Yeah, but Arjun went knight D two and the best move.

Let's go, guys. Best blocker. And so, if we look at the position, the knight and the bishop cannot move each other, like very well placed. The pawn on e4 is now protected. And now g4, Amruta's idea is coming in. And if pawn takes pawn, you can even go h5 and simply blast open the position.

And such, you know, patience showed by Arjun here, because he could have played the move g4 here, but that might have allowed black to potentially play something like d2 and put pressure on the e4 pawn. Knight comes into d2, and now black has no threats. White is just—

so if queen takes b2, g4, and I pick up the pawn, g4.

Also, also, there is a way to win a piece after queen b2.

Ah, okay.

And Humpy wins her game as well. So 3-0.

No, Hampi had won. Two-nil.

Hampi had Savita. Savita won. I can you just check? I think I saw.

No, here from here we can shift the board and we can go here.

Yeah, she just won. As you can see, the score sheets.

Oh, let's change. The debutant Savita Shri has scored her first win of the Chess Olympiad. India has won. Let's go three zero.

Amruta, what a Nice start for the Indian women's team. No, what?

So quickly?

Bukesh is winning because his position looked equal, and I think that he finds Queen c3.

He finds Queen c3, but the job is not done yet, Amruta, because he still needs to find the move pawn to e6.

That's a key move somehow. Now it's simple, no? Because you are threatening a checkmate and you are threatening to—

no, Knight d8 he wants. संबोधन नाइट डीएट, because now G7 and H6 are protected and he wants to take the pawn.

Let's ask the chat what is the move white to play over here? If all of you were focused a little earlier, then you will find this. And that reminds me of neuro energy and focus. Nice.

By the way, people are saying eight zero incoming. We can very likely see all our eight players winning on the first day. And that is the start we were hoping for from our Indian players.

Let's go! We have 7,000 people joining in. Gukesh in the distance, you can see there, he's playing really well. Guys, do like the stream, get us to 5,000 likes. Also tell people that the Chess Olympiad has begun in Samarkand, Uzbekistan. We are right where the action is happening here in the venue. People are coming, uh, you know, One after the other here. We will hopefully get some players here as well.

That would be epic.

And right now, what Gukesh needs to do is I'll tell them bishop takes d five. No, bishop takes d five is the answer which maximum people gave, and it's a good move. Let me tell you.

But holo looks attractive and is a good move. Generally very rare to find this combo. E four, f e four. Bishop takes e4.

First of all, it's very simple. You discard the move rook d7. Over. If f takes e4, the same idea because there is a pin on the square. Guys, pin with a piece is very easy. Pin on a square is what will take you to the next level.

Nice. And after king takes h7, Gukesh is still thinking, hasn't made the move just yet. He has 9 minutes on his clock. Vidit is also completely winning on his board. Wow! Yeah, he is completely winning.

Vidit bhai coming in good shape makes Indian team really powerful because it gives us like, you know, this ability for people to take rest, flexibility, someone else can come in. Absolutely. Such an important thing.

Yeah, this is a big addition to have Vidit. On a reserve board, he's doing his job on board number four here.

इसलिए रुके थे यार the king opposite side castle and all we wanted was a successful break and that has started whereas white is not getting much on the kingside. What is this knight doing here?

What is the bishop doing here? And if if now Vidit has to move, it's not so simple how he should. Should continue. Maybe b takes c four looks like a plan.

I'm looking at rook f e eight. Is it a good idea?

Yeah, I think in general, in general, black just has such a dominating position that the next move doesn't matter that much because white simply doesn't have a good way to proceed.

His pawn on e three is weak.

Knight on c two is forced to defending the pawn on e three, and I think Vidit will be winning in a few moves. From now.

Oh, by the way, we have to move to a Vantika because Vantika seems has drawn the game.

No, no, no, she's playing, she's playing. Ah, but she's winning. Oh man, let's go! Vantika is doing well on her board. She had a tough position.

Knight c4. Ah, knight c4. The idea was if rook a4, just to show, then knight b But this works actually. Wow, because Black had a very powerful move, guys. Black to play, what do you do? Very, very important because this is the way in which Black could have equalized. And somewhere, if you are in the 1900 zone, you know that sometimes you end your calculation a bit too soon.

Yeah, you will miss the intermediate moves. And if you really want to improve that, do check out the, uh, Book Vaishal Zun on ChessBase India shop.

Wow, crazy!

By the way, very nice comment by 64 Squares. The beauty of the Olympiad is that one brilliant victory can inspire an entire team, and one expected draw can change everything. Yeah, unexpected.

By the way, the move here is Knight d5. Well done, who have found. And now the thing is, if you take, your queen is also hanging. But Amrita, the point which I wanted to clarify on 95, if Queen d3, Queen d3, because here if you take my knight on d6, I want to checkmate you with Queen at 7. But the funny thing is there is no checkmate after the f8 square.

The king runs away. It's still complicated, but this would have been the best way for Black to continue in the current position.

What a tactic!

Yeah, yeah, I think one thing might be Okay with this, but her opponent played Queen d7. Yeah. She goes Rook d2, finds the best move in time pressure, takes, and now her opponent is thinking because if she moves the rook away, then the pawn is very very happy. मेरे पे किसी की भी नजर नहीं है, मैं जो चाहे कुछ भी कर सकता हूँ, बर्बादा पार्टी में। By the way, three zero already हो गया है, so Vantika doesn't have any pressure on her shoulder.

In terms of the match score, we have won the match. We have secured the victory, but we want to make sure to win this match with four game points.

And I think she'll do it.

I think she's on the verge to do it.

Yes. But one minute forty-four seconds, eleven moves to be made, and right now still the threat remains. Rook takes a four. White to play. What should one ticka do here?

I would play knight e four trade.

Oh no, a four is hanging. Sorry. I like rook a one. Oh no, Rook a1, Rook takes a4. That's a cool tactic.

Oh nice one. Back rank. Take here, then there is Queen d1.

So I have to be a bit careful as white. Wantika down to 1 minute 20 seconds. Wantika, you need to move.

11 moves to make. With it game good. Okay, let's quickly have—

but let's wait for her move and then quickly shift to 7,000 people watching in the women's section. They— we have already won 3 boards. Humpy won on board 1, Vaishali on board 2, and Savita on board 4. But down to 50 seconds only. And look at the— in like the clock there, it has become red.

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मंतिका दो, he's her time thirty seconds. Not easy.

Why? Because Queen B three is what I would play.

Yeah, Queen B three. Maybe just she needs to move twenty seconds now.

Queen A three is the best move.

But that's too tough.

Queen F three is another best move. These are the top engine moves. We have to see if he if she finds it or not.

But in one look at her, she's just on the board. What do you play? Oh, knight comes to e five, g five.

But it's not a bad move. Actually, time pressure pretty decent because now f seven is hanging here.

But but still complicated. I think maybe if Gonzalez Peguero does something interesting. Yeah, this game can turn around. D six. I think Rook d one.

A lot of updates in the men's section, open section over there. Sagar, Ajubai, what's up with Ajubai? First, let's go to Ajubai. Winning completely, so we should look here.

Yes, e4 found.

Whoa, he found e6 first. He played e6 and then he found e4. This is brilliant. Well done, well done. Let's go to Ajubai.

Brilliant. एक मिनट भाई थोड़ा समझाओ कैसे मेरे को भी खुद नहीं समझा। Got it, got it.

Let's go back because opponent Has just played f takes e four, and now you have to still take this because if knight takes e four, अगर मारा तो the pin continues on d seven.

Rook takes e four, d and rook d seven.

Hey, but two rooks for a queen. No, but it's just over.

And if he doesn't take here, and he played bishop takes e four has been played by. Gukesh opponent only has 30 seconds. I think we can just look at the next few moves. Rook comes into g8, but I think Gukesh is going to win this with both the h7 b1 diagonal.

We also should have shown this, no, Harshit bhai? If instead of knight takes d takes e4, then rook takes d6. Yes, boom! Sacrifice.

You can't take here because it's a mate. So actually e4 was important and Gukesh Found that, so he is.

Is Gukesh coming back, guys? That's what we need. We need him to strike.

Okay, boy.

Come on. And we have Prasad Duri, member for forty-six months, a very well-known name on our channel. Now I'm in my happy place. My favorite chess wizards. Let's go, Prasad bhai.

The wizards are weaving their magic here. Gukesh is winning. Vidit is winning. Nihal already won. So I think the Boys are doing it in style.

Let's go to Ajubhai. How's Ajubhai doing?

Oh, Ajubhai is also winning because after knight d two, yeah, let's go bishop c five.

King started to run, but now Ajubhai can take on h five, right? Yeah.

Just simply take.

Oh, Vidit won. Takes. Oh, I have. Oh, Vidit won already. Can you go to Vidit? Because Vidit has got up from his chair. Yeah, Vidit won. Look at the overview board. Maybe they have something there for us. Ah, this is one of the.

Yes, you can see Vidit got up from his board there in the long.

Yeah, there we have him. Let's go, Vidi. Greedy Vidi wins his first game.

His last final move was over here. I think G four takes takes who a knight E four because there's a back rank problem.

Rook F. Anis, thank you very much. Yeah, nice win by Vidit. He was always in control. I loved how he played here. शांति से जीता, शांति से। So open section में we are currently leading two zero. In women's we are leading three zero.

Harshit bhai, we need to thank Tech Mahindra and Anand Mahindra for bringing Vidy back in form because this tournament, the last one that he played, added so much confidence to Vidy. And now Arjun. Well, this position is looking wild on the surface, but Arjun is the one in control here. Can we find a very clean way to finish this?

I think Rook g1 is very clean. Rook to g1 and following it up with some sort of, uh, rook—

like, you know, Queen h6, Rook g8 ideas. Let's, let's ask our viewers if Rook g1, Queen c2. Which mic? Why no?

That's a big blunder. Here Sagar bhai wanted to play Rook g8, King g8, Queen h6. But guys, black to play.

What's the only move to save the day? In fact, not just save it but win it. Vantika losing? Oh, Vantika के गेम पे जाना चाहिए। Let's go, Vantika's game.

By by the way. Let's quickly finish this. Queen takes d2 is the way.

Beautiful. Queen d2 found first by Arnau. Well done.

Queen d2 takes rook c2 and black is winning. So of course Arjun won't play this. Let's go quickly to Vantika's board. She's not losing, guys. No, no.

There we see Vantika. So after— oh, her opponent did take rook a4. Knight g takes f7. But already the First game is filled with lot of nerves here for Indian fans because Vantika was down to four seconds, Harshit Pai, before she made her last move.

Yeah, and she definitely needs to play a bit faster and save her time because nine more moves to go.

We have been saying this about Vantika for now quite a long time. She loves coming under time pressure, and she doesn't really mind it. I feel.

Yeah, she takes the pawn. On f7, Vantika. Black will move the queen, and I think after she moves the queen, Vantika will probably play a move like pawn to h3 to have a lift for the white king here. Look at Vantika; she is completely focused there. Can Gonzalez snatch half a point from Vantika? Queen to d5 played.

Well, guys. Gukesh back in form is not about his win over 1900, it's the moves that he found like e6 and e4. I think that's what makes it special. And Queen d4, Harshit bhai, if we don't look at the engine and just think with our mind, because Vantika also would have to do that.

Oh, she comes back Queen to e1, doesn't exchange the queens.

And taking was better? Yeah, it's, it's complicated I think right now because if you Would have taken pawn takes. Rook c eight is a mate. Yeah, it's a mate here. So you have to take back with the rook, I believe. But then it's not so clear how these two knights will get out, right? Exactly. So that's why Antika is like my best hope is to continue the attack.

The knights can be strongest when defending each other, but they can also be the weakest as they are taking away the the same squares that they would like to jump on. Marriage, yeah.

Well, in some ways, it's a very dependent marriage, Amruta, not an independent one. I think these two knights need to find their like you know if the knight comes back or finds another route, it would be nicer. Thirty. Although I do feel knight c six is a threat now, Arshid by knight c six knight comes back to e five can get things rolling for Vantika. So black needs to be very accurate, and opponent doesn't have much. Time as well. Two minutes forty seconds.

That's where a weaker opponent many times is gonna crumble fast in time pressure. By the way, does anyone want to see final moments of Dukesh? Because many people yes, we want to see both.

But guys, all those who are asking where are we, we are in Samarkand here, just right next to the playing hall. And we do see like players from all the countries here in front of.

वाज़ अमृता वन टाइम यू कैन शो देम मेंबी अंडर टाइम प्रेशर मेंबी अंडर टाइम प्रेशर आफ्टर टाइम प्रेशर इज़ डन क्वीन बी फोर या अ गुड मूव बाय गोंजालेस पेगुअरो एंड वांटिका इज़ अगेन अंडर प्रेशर विथ 30 सेकंड्स ऑन द क्लॉक शी हैज़ अ गुड पोजीशन शी जस्ट नीड्स तू मेक अ डिसीज Probably consider queen to e2 here, and potentially. And rook a5.

Then what would you do?

I would just give the pawn. Just play h3 or something. Give that pawn and try to go for the attack. Oh! One ticka go. Hello. Five. Oh my god! Three. Three seconds. Three seconds. She plays queen to d1. Guys, this game is far from over, and the perhaps the focal point of.

Today's match is this game. Yeah, definitely. And while we are looking at this, very quickly catching a glimpse of Gukesh's board because look at him, he's finishing this off. In the distance is Gukesh, near to you is Arjun. Both Gukesh and Arjun kind of making this work. Reminds me of India's young team when they played at the Youth Olympiad.

They are now here and check मेटिंग बाय या रुक टेक्स जी फाइव व्हाट इज़ दिस रॉकेट बिशप्स एंड द द क्वीन ऑन ई थ्री टुगेदर जस्ट एंड रेजिग्नेशन देर गुकेश स्टार्ट्स हिज़ जर्नी एट द ओलंपियाड विथ अ विन एंड व्हाट अ बूम लाइक व्हाट अ बीस्ट विन बाय हिम एक्जैक्टली अ ग्रेट विन बाय हिम एंड ऑफ़ कोर Dinkesh played good moves.

Especially for all those who were not following, he played this very cool move, e6. And after opponent moved, he even sacked the pawn on a square where it was protected by 3 pieces and managed to—

Thank you.

And managed to actually break in there. And as you can see, a lot of music and all has started in the background. और गुकेश, people can hear the music. I'm pretty sure they can.

The mascots are dancing there.

You know, some lot of things are happening which are insane and wow. And now only guy left is Arjun in the open and Vantika in the women's section. So Arjun is doing it here. I think he will win.

And by the way, I'm just one thing before. Let's go to Vantika's board. Very very important that Gukesh starts off. This win and with such a, like, you know, attacking and dynamic way. I think this is going to make him feel happy and excited about chess.

I agree, I agree. And by the way, uh, they have repeated twice. I don't think Vantika would like a draw here, and so she will play, and the opponent is actually not repeating. Well, Gonzalez Peguero Mariloli is showing a lot of character. Her here, wanting to fight, wanting to keep going. Really amazing play by her. She's 400— sorry, uh, how much? 500 points rated below Avantika, and she's saying, I want to play for a win.

Yeah, this is— this shows some, uh, some attitude here. By the way, scores of both the Indian teams are currently 3-0. We have won our matches. Wanting to improve our score even further. Queen to e4. And Vantika needs to make a decision here with just 30 seconds on her clock.

Wow, Levon is struggling to win, people are saying. Wow, this shows that the chess overall in the world is rising. But she plays Queen f1.

No draw, no draw, says Vantika.

I am going to keep fighting. Vantika definitely is a player who raises everyone's blood pressures. Yeah. मतलब टेंशन ऑन द पीक, एस वी हैव क्लोज टू 8000 पीपल योर गाइस, डू लाइक द स्ट्रीम, डू सब्सक्राइब टू चेसबेस इंडिया, एंड इफ यू आर एंजॉयिंग दिस ब्रॉडकास्ट, देन डू टेल एवरीवन टू ज्वाइन इन, सो दैट वी कैन एक्चुअली रूट फॉर टीम इंडिया, विच इज़ भाई मेडल जीता ने व Queen to f1.

With 2 seconds on the clock, she decides to play on.

Just to— for people to show the tension in the room, there is Vantika and her opponent playing really coolly. That's actually very nice to see what, uh, Mary Peguaro is doing.

Uh, maybe I can even zoom in now that that's the only game left on the स्क्रीन और नाउ हर ओपोनेंट डिप्स बिलो वन मिनट ऑन द क्लॉक एस वेल बोथ प्लेयर्स नाउ इन द बुलेट टेरिटरी हर ओपोनेंट लुकिंग एट द स्कोरशीट हेजिटेटिंग अलिटल बिट टू प्ले द मूव शीज़ नॉट शुरू व्हाट टू डू प्लेस पॉन्ड टू ह सिक्स यस गाइस विल गेट बैक द बोर्ड हियर एंड पॉन्ड Is that a good move, Arshid bhai? It's an— I think it's a good move, just, uh, keep making a square for the black king.

Much stronger than 99.

Yeah, for sure, for sure.

And keeping our nerves against such a strong opponent.

And Vantika about to play pawn to h3 herself. I think she plays it, the best move in the position played by Vantika.

And the question is, will Vantika crack First or will her opponent by rating? It must be that Mary Lolly should crack, but I don't know. I mean, anything can happen here. By the way, oh, she went G three, G three instead, not H three.

Now forty seconds for Gonzalez, thirty four seconds for Vantika. Gonzalez needs to hurry up herself. Vantika is experienced in this situation, having less than a minute on her clock, and her opponent made a move. What is that move? We are about to find out.

There are a few seconds of lag between them making the move, and Rook b4 was the best move in the game.

Bye! This is not, not So easy for Vantika.

Guys, we are big fans of Indian players, but whenever we see an underdog playing so well, all respect, all respect to them, especially to González Peguero, Mary Loli.

What a play! By 36th move, 4 more moves to be made, Vantika just moved her rook to d1. If I'm not mistaken, also the best move.

Yeah, by one. What about the time?

Rook e1 played actually.

Okay, four moves.

If her opponent survives, then oh actually she goes in with the queen to c2. She goes in with the queen to c2 there. González Peguero. Queen To C two.

Wow, five seconds.

And we have three more moves for Vantika to make until we reach the time control. Man, Gonzalez Peguero is fighting like a warrior here. Just 1900 rated, but giving Vantika a very, very hard time. We have one more move played. Rook to c1 and queen back to e4. Again, the position has been repeated twice.

I think Vantika just wants to reach move 40. She has to make 2 more moves. If she does it, she will get 30 extra minutes, and I think that will give her the much-needed calmness to continue.

I, I'm not sure right now if, if I was Vantika, I would be very keen on playing because you don't want to Risk losing an entire point, right?

Yeah, but I think Harshit bhai, her position is good enough not to lose, right?

Let's see what the move was that she made. 8,000, if you're watching.

Not sure, because if she loses the b-pawn later somewhere, then it will be a danger.

And rook to a1 played. That's a great move by Vantika, threatening rook a8 and rook h8 checkmate.

But in one minute for her opponent to defend against The checkmate is it possible?

I think she'll play Rook a four if I'm not mistaken. That's the most natural move, Arshid Bhai, and could well be an error.

Yeah, Rook a four is definitely maybe b six tempting here. Knight d six is the best move. You're deflecting the knight on f seven, protecting the a square. But I agree.

Pretty sure this is not happening.

At least in time pressure. That's a very good point. Amazing. Mary would be playing amazing.

Thirty eight seconds for Mary here. Can she find the move knight to d6? Ajubai, I think, is completely winning. And she plays it!

No way! She plays knight d6!

No way! I can't believe this! No way!

Did she do that?

I think she found the best move.

Wow! Wow! That is insane, guys! Neuro and energy focused moment, guys! What A move by Mary here. Kudos to her, you know.

We need to tip our hat where it's like, you know, where it's credit where it's due.

Exactly. Beautiful play. You know, if you take this, I will take your knight. If you give a check, I'll pick up the rook. And Vantika must one more move with ten seconds. No, Vantika played her move.

She took the knight on D six, I guess.

But that is. mean her opponent is really underrated and she's playing well and it's not going to be easy.

Someone told Amruta that she is the highest rated player in the team, it seems, because all others are lower rated. If you see Hampi's opponent, 1833, then, uh, next— oh, sorry, Vaishali's opponent was 177. So she is the highest, she's number 1 player in her country.

But also she's playing like a 2200 strength.

More maybe. I mean, Knight d6, I don't— I honestly don't think I would play the move myself. There is no need for me to like lie. I think Knight d6 is too difficult, and the reason I wouldn't play is because I would think that after Rook a8, King h7, Rook h8 check is losing for me. That would be my analysis, and I would stop here.

But actually, the point, as Harshit beautifully points out, there is a fork, but the King can avoid taking the rook and come out, and the position is still fine. Yeah, because check is met with knight e4. Harshit bhai, this is too complex.

Yeah, and king h7 played on the board. I'm not sure if Mary had seen rook to h8 check, but regardless, she finds the only way to maintain balance here. And both players have reached the time control. This is going to be a long battle ahead.

Yeah, I hope that Vantika knows that move 40 is reached and she takes her time. Look at that. I think Vantika is relaxed now. Yeah, so she will take her time on this board. But believe it or not, guys, it's an equal position. Her opponent could not break through. Yeah, no, Vantika could not break through. Vantika could not break through. Her opponent held forth.

Yeah, that is— that just tells something about, uh, the kind of resilience people have in this tournament. At the end of the day, they are playing for their country. Yeah. And you want to make sure that you do your best for your country.

This is a huge honor for everyone.

Very inspired, you know, in the comments, uh, their countrymates were there. They were very happy that they got India, uh, you know, in the first round. Yeah.

And I think such games really egg you on. If like you are Gonzalez, you might say to yourself that I have a lot Of potential. Should we look at Arjun?

Let's just make sure that Arjun is converting his advantage, and yes, he is. I think we might just see resignation as he is about to pick up the pawn on D3 next.

So this happened: Queen G5, Rook F3 check, Queen F8, and Arjun keeps the queens on the board.

And he gives the check again. And guys, it might feel as if Arjun is repeating, but no, the queen is now on h8, which means that after queen back to f8, he can simply go munch munch, capture the pawn on h5, and, uh, and then push the pawn. Yeah, and white— black is completely helpless with the king on e8. The king can never come here because then you lose the d3 pawn. So Arjun is in complete control. The open section will Have a clean sheet with four to zero win.

Shrija says, "Sagar bhai, isn't Abhijit Kunte coaching the women's team this time?" Actually, Soyam Mishra is coaching the women's team. Abhijit Kunte is the manager of both the teams. He's the head of HOD, head of delegation. Yeah, usually Team India will send one person to take care of the entire delegation. Last year, last time it was Dibendu Barua. Who was the the manager of the team this time? It's Abhijit Kunte. And by the way, as La La Vira Pap is trying for a win, just to show you guys that's him here. Kudos to him as well for fighting really well. I think he's someone to watch out for in this tournament.

Yeah, yeah, for sure. And just to know the difficulty of the first. Rounds. I'm curious to check out the game of Levon.

And Levon Aronian is a pawn up, but you see, it's already like check, check, go for a mate, and if you try to stop, you lose a pawn. I think it seems like a draw.

Yeah, Levon might not win his first game, which is good news for the Indian team because they are going to win their match 4-0.

Yeah, so, and the Uzbek team has already won 3-0. And, uh, last board, Madamino is also winning against Akeem. Yeah, kudos to Akeem for fighting hard, actually.

Yeah, and even if he loses, I'm sure there is going to be a video coming out on Akeem's YouTube, so do check it out.

China won 4-0. Has been helping since in the last 1 hour we have exchanged a lot of messages, so Guys, you might think what is Amruta doing here sometimes on her phone typing?

Is she distracted? Well, she's trying to figure out the sound issues. She wants to ensure that the stream is of the highest quality. So thank you, Amruta.

Of course I should do that once again. But no, I can't do it myself. So this is what Miro is helping.

It's amazing. Yeah, Miro is a great person. From Ustas, guys.

Indian team status. Ustas channel also because it would be very exciting. The whole thing which is happening in Uzbekistan and they are rooting for Uzbekistan.

Amruda, now you can show our viewers what's happening in this area.

No, I think this will do it tomorrow.

No, just show it like this. Ah, that way. So we can show them what all is happening because we are here. Right in the thick of things where it's happening. Amruda, आराम से दिखाना। Slowly. People can see it on full screen now. So this is the Fide lounge. You can't talk, Amruda, because people can't hear. So this is the Fide lounge, and you can see so many people are here. Opposite to us are people from different countries. There are chess sets. People are playing there. There are also Various shops here. Yeah, here WR Chess on the left. There is also DGT on the right. There is also a Chessbase shop. Yeah, which is by Chessbase team who's come all the way from Germany. And here we are in the thick of things getting this studio. I think we are very lucky to have this space, Harshit.

For sure, I'm really enjoying myself. Here, just the first day, but we already had so much support from you guys. Very thankful that so many of you are here with us to keep things exciting.

And people are saying Aronian draw. No, I think he is still playing, guys.

But yeah, thank you, Ayan.

Isn't Prag playing? No, Prag did not play because Prag is taking rest. All the top boards of most of the teams have taken rest. In Uzbekistan, Sindarov took rest. It's important to rest it out. And Harshit Bhai, if you want to take rest—

by the way, I found an incredible way for black to draw.

By the way, Nipun Java says, isn't Harshit Bhai always enjoying wherever he goes? Guys, you know, whatever Harshit Bhai, you know, Uh, you may see him wherever he is. One thing remains a constant: he is a ball of positive energy, like always in the present, always happy. Uh, even if he loses his phone, even if he gets detained at the passport control, even if he gets mugged or, you know, robbed, wherever it is, he is in great, great mood. This is I've been watching him for years, seeing this, and I I think Harshit bhai you should maybe tell people your secret how you do it.

I mean it helps when I'm around very nice people like you. Ah bhai.

And मैं तो ऐसे ही आप पे कुछ भी बोलते रहता हूँ. So I don't think it helps that I am there, but I think you have some way of thinking that something goes wrong, you tell yourself ah next moment. Hey somehow.

And the thing is, like, I really have this belief that no matter what happens, no matter, like, how bad the situation is, I will still be able to make a comeback. I really have this belief. So even if I lose everything I have now—

People are worried that, uh, that already what they have, they have lost. So they don't even go to the next step of gaining it back.

I think we should— I mean, we should be, uh, we should be happy with where we are, but we should always, like, you know, try to improve ourselves and our situation, uh, because at the end of the day, we want to, you know, make— do something interesting. But I think it's important to be in the present as well. We should not, uh, you know, I mean, you should— we should not forget that we are very lucky to, to have everything we have. Like, many people don't even have all of these. I mean, look at my life. I'm here commentating at the FIDE Olympiad. I am traveling. If I complain, then God will punish me.

Yeah, well, that's a very interesting way to look at things. And I think during this tournament, we'll also try to break down with the games Harshit Pai's psychology so that you all can adopt it. Because it's not only mere words, he's living it in his life. I've seen it up close. Okay, so Arjun Erigaisi, as we said, has picked up the pawn on h5. Now he has the h pawn, which is a passer. The rook can slide over, the queen can move in, and rook g8 can win the queen.

4-0 incoming. By Vantika ka game ka bhai, woh game mein bata.

By Vantika mein main issue is that they both got 30 minutes, so both are thinking. In fact, Vantika has now taken 15 minutes already. Ready. Very likely that Vantika will go down to again five minutes and make her move and come under time pressure. मत करो भाई, मत करो पीपी बढ़ाओ। I think for Vantika, time pressure is not an issue. Yeah, she is so good with handling the clock, but she does blunder sometimes. It happens.

Yeah, six thousand of you still watching, and we have two important games. Remaining, not in terms of the match result but in terms of the overall tournament.

And, uh, by the way, there is a big award ceremony that is going to happen here. So like along with the Olympiad, we should tell people that there is also the FIDE elections which is happening on the sidelines, but there's also the FIDE Awards, the first ever FIDE Awards which are going to be— you are actually one of the— in fact, The Naroditsky Award for the best creator that they have actually named it after Daniel Naroditsky. They have, I think it's a great honor for whoever wins it. There is ChessBase India, which is nominated, and there's also you personally necessarily put me, but I think ChessBase India wins it. It would be really awesome. We can really all go together on stage, guys.

कुछ भी करो भाई कुछ वोट वगैरह रहेगा तो this guy needs to win भाई like he has done so much भाई we all वो बोलते रहते हैं भाई but he has done a lot lot you know behind the scenes like you can see us in front of the camera but behind the camera when the camera is off सागर भाई doing so much incredible okay so right now a lot of things happening here Very interesting, Harshit bhai, that in this entire venue we have FIDE Championship for disabled players.

We have the Olympiad elections. So a lot of things happening on the sidelines. Everyone's talking to each other, bhai. ये भी हो रहा है, वो भी हो रहा है, and it's crazy. By the way, Vantika Agrawal, look at her.

I think she's upset, bhai. Just she's Leaning back in her chair with with her hand on her face, I think she's a bit upset that she is not being able to convert this, and her opponent is getting more confident now as she leans forward. This psychology of human expressions, I think, plays an important role during the game.

Yeah, I think maybe Vantika. If she manages to win this game, there will be a huge boost of confidence. If she doesn't win, then of course it will impact her a bit.

But the thing is, in general, Vantika is the reserve board, right? No, Savita is. Savita is the reserve board, which is actually board— Vantika is board 4. I think it's possible that in general we might see Divya playing. Of course, she took a rest today, and I'm— I have a feeling that Savita might be a constant player for the Indian team. I think she's in great shape, and we might see more rest days given to Vantika.

Well, the thing is, Arjun bhai, from the last Olympiad, what I saw is Vantika, although she struggles in time trouble, she's able to get those clutch victories. If you remember, she actually got the gold medal on individual board as well. And you know, she and Divya both won individual gold. Uh, she beat Irina Krush. If you remember, India was going to So, all these things, I do feel that Vantika has a lot of experience on her side. If she just keeps— if she starts moving along, that's very important.

And the game is not over yet. So, it's possible she wins and everything is under control. By the way, I will say this, that I did play Vantika in Abu Dhabi in 2017. And I was around 2400. She was around 2900. 200, and there was the same storyline where she was coming under time trouble, and I thought that, okay, she's down to less than 2 minutes, no matter what I play, I'm gonna win. And from that situation, she managed to beat me. Oh wow! So this actually can be psychologically to beat Harshit Bhai in classical.

Was it classical chess? Yeah. Is not easy because I think Harshit Bhai does not lose too many games. Yeah. In last 50 games.

But this was long back. But recently I have somehow. I actually think that my chess is the best right now. I feel very good about my chess. What is Vandika thinking right now?

Let's say if you are b six, b six, knight c four, and I don't think white can convert that into b six, d six, knight marra.

But I'm not sure this is hanging and also yeah this is. How about giving a check first? Because that's the most natural move.

Knight e four and now b six.

Let's look at this because now, but then Queen d6. Now this is hanging because again the rook protects the knight. So that's why we can't really build on this pin. Yeah. But can we?

Can we go Rook d8 here and try to save d4?

That could be a nasty problem.

And I think which one? Yeah.

General black side at some point.

Point is to play c four. Actually, what move would one? Because if you play takes, takes, this is just a draw. Takes, this should end in a draw. Yeah, comfortably. Maybe c four, b six check, and rook b one. Yeah, and rook b one. And this, dear friends, I don't see how one pika can actually try for more. If she is trying, she has to think about moves. Moving the knight away somewhere, like maybe knight f7, but then already worse because just queen f6 attacking the knight and f2. So actually, Vantika's position also has many weaknesses.

Yeah, black is better over here practically because of the active rook, the queen, everything. So a draw is a good result.

I think a lot of people in the chat have suggested the move rook h Kudos to you for spotting it. That takes and there's a fork, but king comes up.

But now queen d3 is different. Any different or the same?

Maybe something is different because you have the king here. I don't know if, uh, that would create some issues for black.

It's a knight.

Amruta trying for keeping the knight on the board.

F five, yeah.

And attacking F two. This does feel like something will go wrong. Three, three. Uh huh. F three.

Knight G five.

Can I go knight D six? Because the queen is hanging, and if you take, I take back with the knight. Maybe that's a blunder.

Yeah, knight d six, knight e five check.

Oh, ninety five. That's got. By tactics.

So maybe here. Knight g five. Actually, this line may have some chances. Yeah, for for Vantika. I think she should go for this, which Amruta has mentioned. Rook h eight. Check, Queen d3, Knight e4, and Knight c4. It looks like complicated enough to make her opponent trying to trade.

It looks a bit risky with the white pieces not in harmony. Somehow anything can go wrong in time.

Yeah, and I would really not, not want everyone to have this impression that just because her opponent Rating is 1900, that it means that she is a that she is a weak player. I agree because rating these days is quite quite inflated or deflated, and it's quite possible that Mary is much stronger than her rating.

You know, Arshid bhai, Amruta, I have a feeling that these days number mean lesser than before. Like even if you look at all the social media channels and all the Earlier, it was like if you had a million subscribers, then your videos would get more views, and those who had less subscribers would get less. But nowadays, you will see that any good content, irrespective of which— how many subscribers you have, gets more views. In the same way, I think in chess, it's become the same. I think numbers have started to matter less. It's the content.

Yeah.

It's how good you are as a player.

Yeah. That's why even how many hairs you have doesn't matter.

What matters is—

no, no, I don't know what, but it doesn't matter how many hairs. You know the classic English speaking everyone does.

But only 8 minutes left.

Yeah, she's down to 7 minutes now, still not made her move. By the way, just 2 Moves back. In this position, she received an additional 30 minutes. Just after one more move, she is down to seven minutes. And and I want Vantika to at some point just make a move. Yeah. Just make a move. Keep the game going.

Should we check Arjun? Yeah.

Let's check Arjun. That is not getting to a We have not reached a conclusion yet, but look at Arjun. Yeah, I think Arjun knows that this game is effectively over. What a nice view we have here as Arjun walks around.

भाई ये view बहुत सही रहता है ओलंपियाड में when one guy is like walking around and we can make reels you know out of this. अर्जुन circling is open.

Actually, Arjun's ten thousand steps do you think will be over? Because it's a pretty slow walk over here. Yeah. What if a player decides to also do some exercise while he's walking? Isn't it a good idea?

Oh, Amruta! Big news! Aronian has drawn his game. Yeah. Levon Aronian's open.

Ali Hasan has managed to create this.

Let's let's bring Aryan Ali here somehow if we can get him. He's from Egypt, right? Iraq, Iraq. Oh my God! Iraq USA match.

By imagine getting the opportunity to play Levon and to hold him to a draw. I think this is a moment that he's going to remember for a long time.

Bring him here if he's there because this is really the biggest result of the day. I'm sure there could. Be some upsets also, but to draw Levon, who actually came from Global Chess League in top shape winning that event, yeah, for the Ganges Grandmasters, and 2160, that is so inspiring.

Yeah, and this just tells you, and this just, uh, you know, uh, adds to your point that the rating has less importance these days. Yeah, and, uh, a 2100 Red holding Levon is for sure an upset. Arjun is completely winning. Do you want to go back to Vantika? Because she was down to 6 minutes. Bye, Vantika! 5 minutes by now.

Vantika, play, man! And look at her opponent, she's also a bit bored there. She's already, you know, biting her nails.

Yeah, let's go full screen maybe on Vantika's expressions. To see whether she's about to make a move. Well, she should by now. Completely locked in both players.

कुछ time का tension ही नहीं है यार। मैं अभी तक तो मेरा आधा उधर से यही हो जाता है कि मेरे पास पांच minute बचा है। Like how you want to catch the flight?

और तब तुम्हारे साथ लिखविदित बोलता है वह तेरे साथ नहीं आऊँगा। You give a lot of anxiety. True.

तो वैसे वंतिका है। I think वंतिका, वंतिका through her practice has become kind of immune to time trouble. Exactly. But one thing is for sure even Magnus Carlsen suffers under time pressure. You can't play accurately always.

Yeah, when you have less time, nothing can go right all the time. But I think Grischuk was like— there were some players like we know Alireza, we know Grischuk, who are able to play amazing chess especially in time pressure. Because many times they have the habit of overthinking, like their first instinct is right, they just don't make the move. And I was also in that category, but, uh, I stopped playing chess.

Yeah, I think Amruta, you also used to do this, right?

Actually, I realized as your age grows, that skill goes low, lower and lower. That you can hold your nose. Time pressure, actually. But as my age grew, I became worse and worse.

Man, three minutes.

Arjun by this and she plays. And she finally plays a move.

And I'm very curious what she played.

I think it's Queen d3 check. Queen to d3 check only move, right?

If you don't play Queen d3 or Rook h8, let's say.

Yeah, she goes for it. And Knight e4 is going to be played immediately here.

Not immediately.

Mary is going to think a lot. For what? Yeah, I mean, what? Just because for what? d6 leads to a mate after Rook a7. Oh yeah. Okay, it's a forced move only. Yeah, so you have to play Play knight e four. There is nothing else.

Yeah, knight e four will be played.

And Mary should put pressure, I think, by making that move quickly. She shouldn't think too much. She must be ready with her move here.

But you know, if right now you're playing against a twenty five hundred player, the player will immediately go knight e four, right? As Harshit, you would have gone for that.

Yeah, but this is this is not about rating.

It's the only Move by like a clear way, and and Peguro just making sure Mary there that knight e four is not a blunder. But the thing is, in these kind of situations, just by method of elimination, you should play the move knight to e four. Hi to the viewers.

Can you say hi to the viewers here? Oh, yes. Good to see you, man. Oh, okay. I'll see you. See you, sir. No, here, guys. We have a very well-known personality here in the world of chess from Indian chess. Ravi Kumar Venkatachalam. Ravi Chandran Venkatachalam. चलम है यहाँ और वो इन्हें सपोर्टेड इन्नुमेरेबल प्लेयर्स इन हिज जर्नी इन चेस और राइट नाउ यू आर द कैप्टन ऑफ़ द टीम ऑफ़ ईश्वरतीनी ईश्वरतीनी ओह वाओ इज इट एन आइलैंड आइलैंड नो इट्स अ किंगडम इट्स अ किंगडम वाओ एंड हाउ इज़ योर टीम डूइंग सर सर ओलिंपिया वी कैन नॉट First round being it's played with the top team. Yeah, we lost all the games, but it was it was nice. Good fight. And so many players, young players you have helped to become grandmasters. Can you tell a few name of them?

Yeah, even I trained my international masters Sarana Kishan, Premnath and Pankitika Pratipa was my first international master. And also I trained Sashikiran.

Grandmaster for some time. Wow!

Ilam Parthi was my last product.

He was Ilam Parthi is your student, ex-student. Wow, guys! A big round of applause to Ravi Chandran here. Ravi Chandran ji, thank you so much for coming here, and we hope that Iswanti, Iswantini does well. Thank you. Thank you. Bye, guys. He is also a FIDE trainer, and so a lot of them have gotten this opportunity. A lot of teams have gotten this opportunity to train with a FIDE trainer, and Ravi Chandran here is training the team of Iswar. Amazing! That's really amazing. And 94 on the board. And by the way, why, why has Vantika's time grown? हर्षित भाई, is it some glitch? Maybe we can go full screen to see her clock timing. Can you see it?

No, I cannot see it from this angle. And perhaps it's good news for for for us and for Vantika if she has nine minutes on the clock. But it felt like she had dipped below five minutes. Yeah.

Yes, Akshat Chowdhury says Praful Zaveri sir also coaching Saint Kitts and Nevis. Yes, I think Harshit bhai, many such amazing trainers here and Indian trainers. I think at least we have six or seven here who are training other teams.

Yeah, I mean we have. प्रफुल्ल ज़वेरी टीचिंग सेन किड्स एंड नेविस फॉर मी, आई ग्रोअप लर्निंग फ्रॉम द बुक द चेस कोर्स एंड आई अलवेज़ फाउंड प्रफुल्ल ज़वेरी तू बी एन एक्सेलेंट ट्रेनर, सो आई थिंक इट्स अ वेरी गुड अपॉर्चुनिटी फॉर दिस टीम्स तू लर्न फ्रॉम सच अमेजिंग ट्रेनर्स फ्रॉम इंडिया। He is fighting, huh, Harshit bhai?

Imagine if my most natural move here is Queen h7. It's already Queen King c7, and if you go Rook g8, Queen b4, even giving up the f7 pawn because Rook d7 and you lose d2. So somewhere Prin Laubira Pap is not going down easily.

Yeah, he's he's fighting until his very last. Breath here.

Why don't you take a short break, re-energize yourself?

Okay, bye. I'll just come take, take some break.

I see Harshit bhai right now has been commentating endlessly from the start, so small break and energy break for him. And Harshit bhai, if you find any Anyone here interesting? Please send them. Yes. Arjun is shaking. No, why? He's not shaking. Arjun is the calmest guy there. Look at him. पाई इतना शांति से बैठा है वो। And by the way, behind Lahwira Pap is the coach of the team of Thailand, Oleksandr Sulipa, who is from Ukraine. Guys. How have you found today's broadcast? Do you have any feedback? Please let us know if there's anything that we can improve upon. I did get the feedback of the bars being a little too small, the font size. We'll work on that. Harsh Kumar, audio is not so nice. Improve audio. Okay, thank you, Harsh bhai. We will try and improve. By the way, I have one question. Is this audio better? Just, uh, just so that I know. Or is this audio better? Because we are using this mic which our friend Menno has given us. So maybe we can— guys, a little bit of background noise will come because of the fact that First one was better. Okay, earlier was better. A lot of people are saying first or second, but the main thing is, uh, there are a lot of people in and around this area, so a little bit of background noise we would— there was one more, uh, you know, either we do a stream like— it's not that we got that option, but if we got it is from the room Or something, or we come here and do it. And I think we preferred this. We didn't know how much noise it would be, but it's manageable in my opinion. We'll try to get our Rode mic, which actually broke today, which is why which which has very unidirectional sound, and I think that would have been very helpful actually. Yeah, some you know we can get. People coming in, beach beach me. It would make it more exciting for sure. Let's go to Vantika's board because Arjun is also thinking here. It's not so simple for Arjun to win as we saw. The best move for Arjun here is rook to g seven because then he is attacking the f seven pawn and not letting the queen run wild. If you go with the queen, this is already a winning position after. Queen f7, Queen d2, and now the only move for white here, guys, very tough move. Try to think, white to play and win, what do you do? Let's see if all of you— please clip the mic to the caller, okay? Amit Rao, ask somebody to send noise-canceling mic Through Flipkart Minutes. Yeah, hopeful. I don't know if Flipkart Minutes works in Uzbekistan, but today's of course t-shirt is a tribute to Samay for all the amazing things that he has done for Indian chess. And King H3, let's go guys! Very good answer here given by Amraha Riccardi. Bishop on A2. Ishan Arjun The people who mentioned king g3, well, this is not the best move because of queen check. It's already trouble time. But if you play king h3 and give a check, now this time the rook comes back and the bishop is hanging. And in fact, there is a mate threatened. So the best move now is to take, take, and it might seem like, whoa, the pawn is about to Queen, but these are the calculations which Arjun will have to do here with Queen c5 check and picking up the rook and winning the game. So Arjun is thinking about all these lines. Remember, he is a calculation monster. Rook g7, Queen b4, Queen f7, Queen d2, King h3, Queen e3, Rook g3, and takes, takes, and all of this. He's thinking Really hard, but meanwhile, Vantika on this board and we have Harshubhai back.

Let's go. Rook to d8 played.

Oh, Rook d8 she played. Why? This was the move we were talking about, right? I was saying like maybe she wants to keep control. She will play Rook d8 and she plays it. Yeah, but you had mentioned Queen d4 as a clean equalizer.

23 minutes for Gonzalez.

Bye. I had asked the viewers to give us some feedback of day 1. Is there anything we can improve? So the one thing they mentioned is sound could be better. So maybe we will try to get our microphone sorted, uh, and as I said, there's some ambient sound. But anything else apart from the sound, guys? Maybe you want the overlays better. We have asked, uh, the, uh, The team of Menno and so on to give us more cameras for Indian.

I would actually love if we can see the current score of the match. Let's say two zero or three zero. So that way we can keep track of which team is winning.

Of India. Yeah. Okay.

Of the Indian men and women, if we can somehow keep a scorecard somewhere. Let's say two zero men.

So on both scenes, like men के scene में भी होना चाहिए women का score and on both sides.

Exactly, that would be my— like, I think that would be great to know, for example, which team is winning.

Got it, that's a good point. I think very good suggestion. Have 3 chairs. Okay, more lights. Bar is too small. Yeah, that, that below bars. Yes. Okay. भाई कितना इम्प्रूवमेंट एक दो मिनट में तो इतने इम्प्रूवमेंट चेंज और बैकग्राउंड और सब बाय बाय गो गाइस थैंक यू फॉर ऑल दिस फीडबैक वी ट्राई टू इम्प्रूव वन बाय वन आई थिंक आईल ट्राई टू वर्क विथ अनमोल भाई एंड गेट दिस ओवरले वेर वी कैन हैव ओपन इंडियन फ्लैग एंड Guys, बाकी improvement तो चलते रहेंगे। As long as we are here, you guys are here and we have the players, games and cameras, I think we should be very happy. I am with Harshit bhai.

Log बोल रहे हैं भाई। अरे, I am also with you guys.

Make a layout little light says. Okay, thank you. अरे travel with Nikhil Roshan is here. Travel with Nikhil Roshan थोड़ा travel करके उस्बेकिस्तान भी आजाओ। How are you? I missed Bangalore's event. Yes, all plans went down with sickness. Hope to catch next one. दोस्तों please like the stream. Thank you Nikhil Roshan. I hope you followed it from your home.

And by the way, भाई we had a subscriber goal the last time Olympiad में। अभी how many subscribers does ChessBase India have?

भाई I think right now ChessBase India subscribers. I think we were close to three million twenty thousand subscribers.

I think we have you have that three point zero two. So by three point one three million three point one million goal रखते हैं। मतलब eighty thousand Subscribers in eleven days.

Let's go, bye.

Bye too much. नहीं भाई क्या too much भाई इतने प्यारे लोग हैं भाई कर देंगे। Let's go guys. Three point one million incoming. Three point five million unique gaming.

भाई आपसे भी ज़्यादा ambitious है वो। ये first time हो रहा है। Yes have cameras to each Indian players board. If we are able to do that, that would be epic. I think three point One would be a very, very tough task. But if we manage to do that, that would be insane. Let's see. And right now, while Gonzalez is thinking, it's time for us to head back to Ajubai's board. Yeah.

Because you have some moves?

No, hasn't played. I think you know I was analyzing one line, Harshid Bai, which I want to share with you. Rook. G7. Okay. Queen B4. Right. And now D2 is hanging, but Queen takes F7. Harshit bhai, focus. Yes. Neuro focus, bhai.

Let's go. Let's go.

I'm tell you कुछ important. नहीं नहीं.

Let's go, bhai.

बाई कुछ नहीं है क्या?

नहीं कुछ नहीं है, bhai. Okay. Queen takes F7. All good, sir.

Did you make a million dollar deal?

करेंगे भाई करेंगे करेंगे queen takes d two check where do you move your king h three अर्चित भाई didn't even think queen e three check actually to be I swear I didn't look at the engine just thought king goes needs to go to h three but now I see the point because the rook comes back to g three yeah and then it's a mate but here is the point हर्षित भाई take take and d two and then queen is on f seven queen e seven King c8, and now win it clean. Clean. Queen c5 check, chop off the rook on d4.

And this is what Arjun is calculating deeply. This is not easy though. It's not simple because you could even go Queen h7, Harshit Bhai, and here threaten this. But suddenly after Queen b4, we were looking at this line and Black is actually Black who is winning.

And this goes to show you that if this is the kind of, uh, Like, you know, focus Arjun needs to have in the first round. This Olympiad is a very tough event to win, guys. Queen to g5 was played by Arjun.

Arjun keeps an eye here, stops perhaps Queen b4 because of check and winning this pawn. Also starts to threaten his h-pawn going forward. The question here is, can we be greedy and take this pawn, Harshit bhai? Maybe not, right?

By the way, there is a move played.

Oh, did he play already?

He played Queen b4. He played Queen to b4. Wow, so quickly! And now Queen g8 check is a mistake in my opinion.

Queen g8, King— it's the same line we saw, right? Queen g8, King c7. No, this is even worse. You take here, then Rook d7, and d2 is under pressure. You can't save it. So yes, Arjun has to be careful and is pawn and putting pressure on him by playing quickly. Uh, maybe a move like Rook g2 could come to mind here, Harshit bhai. But King c7, and Black is the one who's getting some play. If Arjun starts to push the pawn h5, look at that, Bishop e4, man.

And guys, you know, uh, we do have the engine evaluation bar which is helping us, but if we look at the board practically, there is a certain sense of difficulty that we can see on Arjun's board. Yes, he is winning, but there is still quite some work to do. So we will come back to this board. Let's just check if there are any moves on Vantika's board. No, not yet. No moves played by Mary just yet. And she plays Rook b1 check. No, what did she play? Queen a1 check.

King g2. Is there a need to give that check actually?

Yeah, she goes check. King g2. And what's her idea now? King g2 only move.

Rook d4 maybe.

My God, she does it! What? She does it! King g2, Rook d4 on the board. Wow! Man, Mary Lolly.

Why couldn't she play Rook d4 directly? Like, was there an issue here? She could have also played this, but there was some Knight f7 business that she was a bit, uh, afraid about.

So she got her queen here and then she goes for—

guys, who is she training with? I think she's working incredible in her calculation and all is top-notch, right?

Yeah, look at her, she's looking Away, she seems confident. She's staring at Vantika right in the eye, and the knight on d6 is pinned to the rook on d8. And around this time is when Vantika needs to make a decision—the decision of whether she wants to keep the game going or wants to pull the brakes, agree that the game did not.

Go her way and make a draw. But maybe still keeping this Queen c2 and eye on this pin seems like nice move, right? Because you will see that the knight can't move, the rook can't move.

You know, if it was me, I would keep playing. And, uh, and, and the reason I think one thing I would also keep playing, yeah, is because the team has already won and, uh, a full point would, would actually be a very big bonus, you know.

Whereas, uh, but I saw one line. If Queen c to Queen d1, now I force you to trade, correct? There is no other way, otherwise you will lose the knight. So you take, I take. Now there's this nasty pin and it gets very sharp. If I play b6, you play Rook takes b6, I take, Knight takes, and I stop your pawn, right? So I can't play b6. I need to move Knight f7, I think.

And then you just—

but then take. Taking is bad. Whoa!

Because the knight on d8 protects the b7 square, and that's why the b-pawn just runs down the board.

Actually, you can even win this pawn and come and stop this pawn. So in a way, after Rook takes d1, Knight f7, Black has to go Rook b—

by the way, Queen c2 on the board. Queen to c2 is on the board. So this line that you highlighted is which can happen. Absolutely, absolutely can. By the way, black also has this idea of potentially going queen e one, which I find to be a dangerous move because queen e one threatens rook to d two.

Oh, queen e one. No, rook d two. There is queen e four. Take and rook d eight. Wow! Queen e one is a crazy move. I think one Mary, Mary could play it earlier. I was like Mary is looking for some trades and all, but she's not.

Yeah, but she wants to keep the game going. She's too good. And look at her. She's she's she knows that she has some interesting resource here. Queen D one and Queen E one both are very very fine moves for for black. Yeah, I don't know what's happening with Antika's clock actually. Uh, I'm not sure if this is the right time. 5 minutes 49 seconds. I'm not sure.

Well, I, I guess now it, it must have adjusted itself to the right time. I hope. Otherwise we would hype up something and then it would go wrong. Meanwhile, Arjun Erigaisi, his position Isn't looking as clear as it was a few moves ago, Harshit bhai. He had to play very accurately, but now Prin Lavira Paph, the only IM from Thailand chess, has played. Hi, what will you play here with black actually?

Well, you cannot wait and sit for white to just push the h pawn down the board. So rook takes e four.

But why not bishop takes?

Because you don't threaten. Anything perhaps.

Take, take and rook d3. Yes. Yeah, yeah. But if you start with rook takes, can I simply not? Then rook d4 back. Then you come back. But this is somehow winning. If you take here, oh, this winning. So take, rook takes.

Black needs to move the king and five five takes.

Also rook e four is also winning. Yeah, for Arjun. But but if you take rook e four, knight e four, then the position becomes very sharp because I'm mating you.

Queen queen h one is a big mating idea, and Prin has six and half minutes to make the decision. He has looked very good so far. Can we go full screen on these two these two players here? Well, this is the only board remaining. I think this one.

Yeah, yeah.

Well, just to update everyone, in both the sections our score is three to zero. We are leading three to zero on both the sections in the open and the women's section. And rook takes e four played.

Bye, Prin. Bye. क्या खाए हो? Bye आप.

Rook takes e four on the board. Arjun needs to take the pawn on d three with a check. That's the key move in this position for him. Well, the only winning move in the position for him, for Arjun. As Prin drinks some water, no matter what the result is, I think Prin should go back home and, uh, you know, be— have like, you know, tap, uh, his back because of how well he has fought against Arjun. Pat himself on the back. Yeah, neck to neck against one of the most most dynamic players, one of the best players in the world. And, uh, I think Pran has shown, shown his potential. Yeah, I, I already felt it somewhere.

I don't know where, but I saw it. He was giving a very tough fight to someone in the WR Chess tournament.

By the way, Vantika is winning. They are saying Vantika winning. No way.

Yeah, guys, just a second. Give us A bit of time because I am introducing a new feature. Let's go on our full screen. This is what we have now—a board so that you can enjoy this. Let's go to Vantika's board because is she winning?

She might be.

Oh my God! What just happened? She's completely winning. What just happened? Queen C two, her opponent played Queen. C three. Oh my God!

After playing an incredibly good game, she just blundered that the white pawn can queen because take, take and B six.

This is over.

And there is B seven, B eight. Guys, all this time we were doubting Mantika, but she is striking on her board.

Well, Mary, I just think had a. Blind spot. Yeah, I don't know what she missed here. Maybe she missed b6.

I don't know. I mean, maybe she thought that after rook b4 she's winning the pawn back, but no, the d6 knight protects this square and the d8 rook protects the queening square as well. And Vantika is going to win her fourth game.

Great news for the Indian fans, guys. Vantika is made of steel, says Dia Sawant. Let's go, Vantika!

Yeah, and she's like, guys. All this time you were doubting me where I was. The gold— I did win the gold medal for my board in the last Olympiad. And maybe Vantika is in good shape.

I don't know about good shape, but I think in general, Harshit bhai, she'll feel good after this win. Yeah. And she will feel like, okay, I was able to win this game, get, uh, onto the scoreboard. And you know, even if you rest me, it will be more out of the fact that, uh, we have such a good team, we need to rest someone.

Yeah, exactly.

And not because I lost or drew my game.

And you know, by the way, people are asking how is she winning. Well guys, the point is that the pawn on b6 is threatening to go to b7. You can stop it once, but it's already protected by this knight on d6. Now we want to promote the pawn to b8, which which is protected by the rook, and there is no way for black to stop this sequence. So in fact, white is going to promote this pawn no matter what, which makes the game of Arjun more exciting.

Let's go! By the way, people are saying they feel a bit sad for Mary, and I think you are right, because it's not about the fact that we are just rooting for our players. Even players who play well, sometimes for the chess perspective, we do feel for them. Like, for, for example, uh, that's what makes chess very brutal, that Mary played a great game but in the end has to go back with no result to her name, you know. But yeah, I think the experience counts.

I think full marks to, full marks to Antika for not agreeing to a draw, to playing with just a few seconds on her clock. Yeah, there is a lot of pressure. There are thousands of people watching All eyes on her board, and she still manages to stay calm and deliver. And this is a sign of an experienced player. Well, talking about experience, she has won the gold medal before, so she knows exactly how to do it. What about this board though? Because right now Arjun down to ten minutes, and the only move is Rook takes d3 check. Yes, 15 minutes for— no, black has 6 minutes, right?

Yeah, 6 minutes 14 seconds.

The clock is good, clock is accurate, guys.

Are you able to see the clock in this view? Because Rakshit bhai has made the clock slightly bigger here. Are you able to see it or not? Let us know.

And he plays rook takes d3 check, the only move In the position, Arjun finds it.

Yes, yes. Okay, that's great to know. They are able to see the clock here.

King to c7 is the only move for black.

For all the people joining in, this is the final game of the day for India, and Arjun avoided the small trick which Prin was Hoping for. He was hoping that Arjun takes his rook and then queen e4 with a very powerful battery here. But Arjun said not that move. He takes on d3, king c7, and now Harshit bhai, you must take on e4. Uh, it is important for Arjun to calculate this through and through. Take, rook c3 check, only move. And now the question is, if you go King b6, I go Queen e3 check and trade.

But if Bishop c6, can I just not take on c6? That's my question.

Only move, right? Because if you go anywhere else, there are checks and you are in trouble. Like even King d7, there is Queen d2 check. Queen d2 check with trouble coming.

King e8, and we can perhaps even just play Queen to f2, just guarding. Oh no, then there is e5 pawn Also, this may be something to worry about or not.

No. Well, it it is easy to just say that oh, this is winning. But actually, Harshik bhai, this could be very complicated.

Yeah.

Levon actually drew. That was the biggest surprise. Yeah, that was the biggest surprise, guys.

One more personality who is in and around this arena. One minute, sir. We have a very well-known person and he is the coach here of the Saint Nevis and kids team. It's I am Pratamesh Mokal is here. Hello, Pratamesh. Hi, hi, Sagar. Hi, Arshad. By the way, Pratamesh is a very well-known chess trainer, also a strong player. And, uh, Pratamesh, how are you feeling here training, uh, the team of— sorry, you are not Cayman Islands. I was saying Saint Nevis and kids is Praful Zaveri, but, uh, Cayman Islands How is it going? Yeah, we started with a very tough team. Who was your opponent? They were playing against Denmark. Oh wow! Denmark had all women FIDE Masters around 500 rating points above them, all of them. So they had a tough fight, but yeah, they lost the game. Wow! Well, Arjun has just blundered here. Pratamesh is also our very close to us brother of Amruta, my relative. And he's actually also coached me. Oh, coached you? In Pune. Wow, wow! Harshit bhai, any secrets about Harshit bhai? No, I don't give out secrets. Oh, no secret given out. But all the best, Pratamesh, for your training, and we wish the Cayman Islands team all the best. Thank you, thank you, guys. That was Pratamesh here, who has come from Pune and is supporting the team of and. Training the team of Cayman Islands. But while he was here, a huge shift has happened in the game of Arjun Erigaisi. And look at this knight d two. He should have taken here. And we were talking about how difficult it is, Harshit Bai, to calculate all this with rook c three. He goes knight f three, and the position has become equal. Oh my! God! And in fact, the the tough part to digest here is that black has many ways to keep the equality. Rook g four, rook e two, even rook f four, which means that Arjun, who usually makes very tricky moves, has for a change made a move that is not the best.

And this tells you about how many problems his opponent is posing.

Check him! Oh my! King h3, and now the only good move for white— for black is bishop takes f3.

Yeah, it won't be easy. 5 minutes.

By the way, Vantika won!

Let's go, Vantika! 4-0 win for her, for her team. It's done, it's done!

India women's team beat, um, the team of Dominican Republic.

But the question now comes on Arjun's board and whether the open section can win four to zero. La Hora Virapap is an international master.

भाई लाओ विरापाप को GM title दो भाई पहले। Twenty seven sixty player को is giving a tough fight. Manasvi Mishra अरे Manasvi says sorry Manasvini Sharma my favorite tournament in this Seeing chess and seeing commentary. Arrey, let's go! She was surviving on the last year's memories. Now time to make new memories.

Let's go! Four minutes for the young boy from Thailand needs to find bishop takes f three in this position.

Hi, come on. Because bishop takes f3 looks doable because queen e1 is also doable, right?

Threatening queen h1 checkmate.

Don't you think Arjun looks bit in trouble here? Because for us—

oh, queen f4 is the only move. Oh my God, bye! Because you could think of coming up, but no, but rook g2 and you lose the queen. Bye! This is crazy if he finds bishop takes f3. Can we go full screen on this boy? He has three minutes thirty seconds. Look at Arjun. He looks to be visibly slightly nervous about this position. He's shaking his leg and an opportunity.

Well, it's actually the first time ever that Arjun is playing on board one, right? For a yeah for a team in the Olympiad and this is.

This is a huge moment for everyone watching. India did win their match. It's 3-0 in the open section, but Arjun's game is down to the wire.

And we have a very good comment by one of our viewers, says Bishop e4 seems like a natural move because of Bishop f5, and Harshit bhai, it loses to a very cool backward move, Queen c1 check.

That is— that comes as a surprise. I feel like this is definitely a trap that black can fall in. I think this is a very, very nice trap that Arjun has set up. Bishop takes f3, guys, is the only move for black to stay in the game. He's about to make a move. Laowira Pap is about to make his move. You can see for him this is a big moment as well. He takes a deep breath there.

Seven-nil has been the score of India today. Four wins in the women, three wins already in the men. Can Arjun make it hundred percent score? Between him and that lies Prin Laovirapap, the highest rated player of Thailand chess, the IM, the only IM in the country who is. Making it very tough. Yeah, keeps the game going here.

He keeps the game going here. He's down to less than 2 minutes now. Wow. And every second that he thinks, I think Arjun's confidence will rise to be able to trick him.

Well, I think he might go for Bishop f3 because that simplifies the position quite a bit. And puts Arjun in under pressure. But as we saw, there are pitfalls. Bishop e four loses to queen c one.

And guys, I want you to put all hearts for Arjun here. We need to give him that energy. Let's go, guys! Let's go, Ajubhai! Time to bring out the bow and arrow. बहुत भाग लिया है opponent ने मैदान में। पकड़ो उसको। Prin was defeated by Adwik.

Right, you are right. You you want we had a have a video on our channel. Adwik Agarwal, the young boy, beat him at I think Abu Dhabi Masters.

Less than one minute now.

It's guys bishop takes f three might not be difficult to find and he takes.

Oh my god! Oh my god! Wow!

What a move by Prinlawira Pap in. Insane. And Bishop f3, Rook takes f3, taken by Arjun. And now Harshit is visibly worried. Oh my God, Queen e1, only move for Arjun to remain in the game or else he loses his Queen. f4 from— how did it shift? Yeah, from all of a sudden, crazy. Only move. Amruta, there is the only move left now. Otherwise he's lost, he's lost, he's lost. That's the thing, Laovirapap has done something too good.

Okay, if it is the only move, then he will find it. And he has 8 minutes.

People are saying time on the real clock is different from what you are showing.

Yeah, this Thailand dude is crazy. Yes, guys. भाई कितना है टाइम जरा देखो ना एक बार। Eight minutes thirty seconds for Arjun, one minute twenty three seconds for it's correct it's absolutely correct.

Okay the threat is by black mate हो रहा है क्या Queen h1 and Rook g2 simple so you have to move the queen हाँ and Queen f4 because you have to control the h2 square so isn't it logical?

It seems logical actually but Queen g3 is not possible because Queen h1 check and Rook g2 That's a good point, and I think Arjun will find the move Queen to f4.

And if Arjun finds it, then I think for Prin it's still, you know, Rook e4 is equal, Queen h1 is okay. I mean, King b8, many moves are okay for him. So I think from just the sheer only moves Arjun has to find, it's a difficult position for him.

Yeah. And can we put full screen? People are asking. Yes, we can. Arjun has seven minutes forty seconds to find this move queen to f four. This reminds me of how Saudi Arabia defeated Argentina in the first round of the FIFA World Cup.

Yeah.

Well, Argentina defeated Saudi Arabia. Was a close match.

Saudi Arabia defeated Argentina. Really?

In this World Cup?

No, last.

Last. And Argentina won it eventually. He won the entire event eventually.

Okay, but if you just look at the position, other than Queen f4, what else comes to your mind to defend?

Well, Amruta, the thing is once you see the move, it's easy to make it. But for Arjun, he has to spot it first. That's the tough part.

You already shown it.

No, no, I mean see as in once you find it out.

Yeah, I but I am just shocked, Amruta.

क्या crazy player है ये?

हाँ, loud ही रहा है। He looks pretty young. Should be in his twenties somewhere.

I thought maybe younger, sixteen, seventeen.

No, no, no, not so young. Guys, this game is far from over.

People are saying it's mad tricky because after queen f four, rook e four already attacks h four. So it's not queen g three.

Then queen h one, queen h two, rook h four.

Bomba. Queen f three check. Yeah. Okay. And look at.

पाप ये प्रेम ये है ड्रिंकिंग सम वाटर ही फील्स कॉन्फिडेंट अबाउट इस पोजीशन वेट सो क्वीन एफ फॉर रुकी फोर अगेन इफ यू गो बैक क्वीन जी फाइव मुझे क्वीन एच वन राइट मतलब वो नहीं हो रहा है वो सो आई नीड टू डिफेंड एफ थ्री रो एंड आई आल्सो नीड टू डिफेंड एच फोर पॉन नहीं आह वेट Oh my God! Queen c three comes with a check. Oh no!

So let's just look at Amruta's analysis here. Queen f four, rook e four.

नहीं नहीं ठीक है ठीक है। This is very tough, very tough for Arjun. Rook f one is the only move here. And after queen c three check, there is rook f three back. That's the Only sequence of moves to hold this.

Well, it's not going to be easy for Arjun here as we are witnessing this incredible fight by Thai number one player. But what is really nice for Indian fans is that irrespective of this result, India has beaten Thailand. That is true. But on the other hand, you really want all your players to be in top shape in this event. So Arjun is. Thinking meanwhile we have 7,800 people watching. Guys, do like the stream and just root for our players here and also for good chess. We are not just rooting for our players; we are rooting for good moves.

Absolutely. And you know it is findable, guys. But with with pressure, with six minutes on your clock, four minutes now on your clock.

By the way, Amruta, you were right. He's very young. He's just twenty years old. He's born in the same year as Gukesh. Yeah, 2006 born.

And I mean, if Arjun has not made the only move yet, this goes to show that there is a certain level of difficulty involved in finding this variation and a sequence of moves.

Because I think Arjun is tempted by Rook g3. I think this is the move. This is a blunder actually, but not so simple to see. Let's not analyze further now. Let's just wait for Arjun. Wait and pray for Arjun. Yeah, and look at Arjun. He is looking at the clock. He's looking at the board. He is worried, visibly worried here. And and so is Prin.

And so is Prin. He's worried not because he has a bad position, but because this is one of the first times he has gotten such a big opportunity.

Right? And maybe we have some.

Oh, he's about to play a move. Come on, Arjun. Queen coming into F four. Have to play this. He comes. Comes back in his thinking pose.

You know, it's a rare time when we are seeing Arjun completely focused on the board. We are very aware that वो इधर उधर देखते रहता है and he calculates. There is hesitancy or three minutes on the clock. Come on, Arjun bhai!

Everyone is for sure hoping he finds the move, but he doesn't. What?

That was that. He's losing now. He doesn't find the move. It's lost time. Actually, queen to g7 loses in a very insanely difficult way. Can Prince find it in one minute twenty seconds? As we see, Harshit Bai is completely dejected here. But Harshit Bai believe in Arjun Eri Gaisi.

Let let we don't know the move. Do you guys know the move?

Well, I would start with a check. That's the only check here that I see. It's logical. You give a check. Yeah, yeah, you give a check. If you go here, then there is a check. So you go up for sure. And then if you give Rook g2, then Rook g3 holds. But the move here is Rook e4.

And if King h5, Queen h4—

No, this is hanging. Yeah, also hang. Yeah, mate. So you have to go rook. I don't know what he— what has he thought actually. Let's go back to the game. Queen h1 on the board. King g4 will प्रिंट फाइंड रुकी फोर, because that is game over. Even रुकी एफाइव इज़ वेरी पावरफुल, but रुकी फोर चेक इज़ जस्ट ओवर. Maybe अर्जुन मिस्ट दैट मूव कंपलीटली. He was just so focused on रुकी जी टू रुकी जी थ्री that he missed the check from here.

Maybe सगरी did not find the रुकी फोर रुकी थ्री रिपीटिशन. Yeah, totally. Like anyway there is nothing much. Too many possibilities.

But guys here's the arrow and प्रिंट has forty four seconds to figure out this check.

Oh my God, I cannot watch this. I cannot watch this. He has 35 seconds. Prin is nervous, but at the same time he has a clear way to win this game. Rook to e4 check. It might be the biggest upset of today, and he's about to play a move.

He finds it! Finds it! Wow! What? What a move here! Prince has managed to find an incredible move.

And rook to f4 check.

And I think Arjun will spot it. He did play rook f4 instantly.

But wait, if you have queen g2 check, it's not the right move.

Yes, queen g2 also wins, Amruta. Queen g2 King h5, Rook e5, but the winning move is Queen d1 check. It's still a bit difficult, yeah or no?

Where do you go? King g5.

Oh my God, what? Prince is playing like a genius.

Queen d1, King g5, Rook e5, and Queen h5 mate.

Wow. Queen d1. Let's just show it here. Queen d1, King g5.

No, make the move on the board. If here Rook e5 and Queen h5 is going to be a checkmate on the next Move king यहाँ पे queen h5 mate by Prin found it.

Wow! Let's go full screen on them. Prin is playing incredibly with lot of energy and focus. Tremendous play by Prin.

And this is where dreams are made in events like the Chess Olympiad. This guy got an opportunity to play against Arjun Irigesi, and look at. How he has used this opportunity.

But King g3, where's the win now? Queen g1 check.

And look at Pran, he has spotted it. He's very excited now to play the move Queen g1. His heart rate is racing. He's seen the win.

He has seen it. And what about King f3?

King f3, Rook e3 mate. Whoa!

No, I think it is—

why is he— cannot stop this Smiling somehow. He's controlling. He's controlling himself. Queen to g1, king to h3.

But now, now it's like rook takes.

Oh, e three. He's just made.

Rook e three is game over. Resignation time with rook to e three. Here we have king h three on the board, and now rook e three. There's no move, right? What is he thinking?

Yeah, actually, did he did he miss this? No, no, he's about to. Play a move.

Rook to e3 check, and resignation incoming.

And there goes down the warrior Arjun Regasi. What a big upset we see as early as round one at the FIDE Olympiad. Losing with the white pieces, Arjun. The team wins three to one against Thailand.

But tell me, guys, how did it all happen? Because Arjun. He was completely doing well.

Yeah, he was doing amazingly well. And there you can see the entire view. Prin Laovira Pab has just pulled off the biggest upset of the day by beating Arjun Erigaisi. Although Team India beat Thailand 3-1, this will be a small hurt for Team India.

Srinath is right there, the captain of the Indian team. Look at Arjun there, he just Wants to leave immediately, and he doesn't even wait for Srinath there. Of course, he is very upset with himself.

Because he was winning throughout the game, and then in he didn't even have time trouble. He just lost the game.

He just lost the plot. Yes, Agarbay. It's easy to be with these top players when they are winning, and when they win medals for the Indian team. It's about who is with them when they are not doing so well. And I think these are the moments where we need. To go out of our way to put support to players like Arjun.

Support to Arjun and huge kudos to Prin because this boy has just done something crazy. Look at him there. Yeah, this is smile on his face. Twenty-year-old Prin Laovira Pap has just created an insanely big game. And you know, for Thai chess, this is a historic moment.

Yeah. Yeah, and I'm sure you know this. This can potentially give him the confidence he needed to become a top player from now. A win like this can change your morale and confidence completely.

Gives Thailand their first GM as well.

Yeah, but India won, guys. The good news is there is a silver lining. India won. 3-1 in the open section. The women's team won 4-0. And, uh, uh, yeah, I mean, we just stay, we just give our energy and efforts, uh, for the Indian players here, right?

And you can see Oleksandr Sulipa just talking to Prin, and he is pleased with him. And he was like, look what you were doing, look at that, and all. I think, uh, शुद्ध भाई, this is what Olympiad is truly like. This is what why the teams come to the Olympiad. They dream of this. Yeah. A team like Thailand dreams that they get paired against India and then one of their players able to win. And that dream has come true. It doesn't matter that they managed that they lost the match today three one because you know they were outwitted on every board by close to three hundred four hundred low points.

But but people who are thinking that this could really ruin the chances to get gold, I don't think that is the case.

No, not at all. Not at all.

And you know. Yeah, guys. You know this is just the round one. Arjun is you know an asset for our team. He had lost.

Yeah, he had because we won the match.

He won the match. Everything is fine. Of course, not the start we were hoping for, but ten more rounds to go and I'm. This loss, you know, Arjun will make sure that this loss is accounted for. I will tell you guys, Arjun Iraigesi will score a win when we need it the most.

Also, tomorrow maybe Arjun can take a break day and let Prag come back and take some rest.

Guys, in sports this happens. I mean, you saw it in the last— in the World Cup. Argentina, the biggest favourites to win the entire event, Well, in Argentina at least they lost the match. यहाँ पे तो we've won the match. We've just lost one game. So I think you know we there is no need for us to you know over analyze this loss. It happens just one game. Yes.

And sometimes it also helps because then it like brings the complete you know madman out of you and you go on to win all the games. And how many times we have seen this happening to so many players?

Yeah, right. And I think, uh, this is the view we have. All the chairs are almost empty now. There's one game going on of the Uzbek women's team that is going to be very likely a victory for them. Uh, do we have the scores updated on chess results, or they don't update it in real time? Because that would give us— not yet. Uh, Forecast. Oh no, it's updated actually. So we have few results. Uh, Uzbekistan beat Jamaica 4-0. Let's, let's bring ourselves back here. Um, Iraq lost to USA 3.5-3.5. Uh, that's a great draw there for one of the players. Um, you know, Arjun lost to Prin and So, Thailand beat India— sorry, India beat Thailand 3-1. China-Uganda is still not done. I think some matches are still going on or not updated.

They will update it soon. Yeah, yeah. I would just say one last thing, uh, Sagar bhai, that in sports, if the favorites always won, it wouldn't be fun to watch. Yeah. So, I think sports is only exciting because—

It adds a new storyline to this. Olympiad that what is Arjun's performance going to be like? Because if you remember last Olympiad, India won. India lost only one game in the entire Olympiad—not a match, only one game. That too, I believe was lost by Prag, if I'm not mistaken. He lost one game on board two. Guys, correct me. me if I'm wrong, but India won everything else, and today in the first round itself we have faced the first loss.

You are saying that we have to now not lose even one game, and it's possible?

It's possible. It's Pragnananda to Wesley. So correct. Uh, why have they kept Amruta standing? Yeah, that's a good question.

Okay, okay, no, please sit, sit, sit.

No, no, it's about me also. Just a question to Amruta.

So guys, because I have been Today, you know, roaming around quite a lot. I've been looking at stuff. I've been looking at mic. We broke our mic ten minutes before the stream. So a lot of things were there, and it was a little unsettled. And also, it feels a bit like good to stand. From tomorrow, it will be situation will be different. We also have only two chairs right now.

So कल से ठीक हो जाएगा। We have we will bring chairs. Don't worry.

नहीं नहीं नहीं we don't have this. मतलब कल से सब ठीक हो जाएगा। But this is also good that in between we'll like change and we'll stand and you know that will be great. Hello David, how are you? Come say hi to the— can you say hi to the—

ah, you are busy with it. Okay, so maybe it's time for us to end our stream.

Yeah, today the final score being at the FIDE Olympiad Day 1, the women team winning 4-0, the men team winning 3-1 against, uh, the team of Thailand. Arjun Irigesi had a setback, lost The his first game, but ten more rounds to go. Ten more matches that we have to win, Sagar bhai. Two medals that we are hoping to defend, and I think we had a great fun. Thank you so much.

इतने लोग आए, सागर बाई अमृता मज़ा आया। Exactly like within the first ten minutes there were so many of you. You like the stream, so everybody got to know. So it would be um it was amazing. Also guys, a big Thanks to, first of all, this space from where we are streaming. It's the, you know, FIDE space over here.

Shout out to FIDE and the organizers.

I already got a gift for my brother for his birthday. And also a big thanks to Neuro who has supported us and we could come over here, you know, to cover the whole event, to do commentary.

And yeah, that's the recap of the day will be coming up. Also, after this we will be shooting it here at the venue, uh, so you will get the complete— all those who missed the stream will get an update of the recap. And we also want to give a, a shout out to a few people who have helped us to make this possible. Nordwin, uh, Gaming and, uh, Saurabh from their team who helped us set up this entire thing because, you know, we are here in an open space there's no stable internet connection. It's a Wi-Fi connection. So we have our stream running from a virtual machine and then we are trying to control it from here. So it's—

A lot of tech elements.

Yeah, it took time for us to settle it. So a big shout out to them, to also Vivek who is part of our team and has helped us, and also Anmol who has played a role in creating this So thank you all. It takes many people to bring this together, but I think we should thank all of them properly when the entire stream runs well at the end of day eleven. Right now we are just on day one. I think it was a good day.

Yeah, and our coverage team is here who is doing amazing. There's Abidya and there is Himank over here. I saw them shooting. I think when Mukesh was you know leaving from there, a lot of people kind of. Mopped him and you know a lot of selfies and everything. I am sure they will make some changes because maybe it's not easy going to be easy for players or it will be. But I think मजा तो आया। There are robots over here who are walking and you know when I was walking some robot started coming behind me. I was not sure if it is following me.

Yeah, there are robots here in the arena. I think Harshit bhai आपको मिले कोई robot?

नहीं अभी I have not.

Harshit bhai you look a bit upset. Sorry, you look a bit upset with this Arjun. He says keep the josh high and that's what is important because you know we have to believe in the team that ठीक है यार एक ही तो आ रहे हैं साथ प्रिंट को स्ट्रीम पे लेके आओ actually that's a good point we could have brought him on stream I think we will tell our no we'll tell our team members that if they do find anyone interesting they can bring them here I think I've mentioned it but Amidst all the things happening, it's sometimes difficult to keep a track of things. So guys, thank you all for tuning in and thank you all for watching. See you all tomorrow. We will start at 3 PM Indian time, that is 2:30 PM here, like, or maybe 3:15 PM because there's a 15-minute delay as well. So then we have 30 minutes of before the show talking about it.

Let's go, absolutely, let's go, let's go.

Thank you guys, see you tomorrow.

Thank you guys, everyone, for being here.