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Hello everyone and welcome to this new video We are at the second round of the US Championship 2023 and Neyman is already first in the standings Of course the tournament has just started but there is to say that many still think that Neyman is a 2400 FIDE or an international master I honestly don't think so also because he has just beaten a 2700 FIDE number 37 in the world a crazy match Before starting, remember to like and subscribe to the channel thanks to all those who are subscribing and let's start Ok, here we are at the second round, Neyman faces Sam Sevian a very strong player but also a rather strange character Last year, in the middle of the match, always against Neyman Sevian had taken Neyman's king from the chessboard and had taken his cross so without reason, without sense a sensational episode Let's see this match Sevian opens with d4 pawn Neyman responds with f6 knight follows c4 e6 g3 pawn Sevian decides to re-enter the Catalan opening There is to say, however, that Neyman is very prepared for this opening I remind you that Neyman beat Karsen right on the Catalan when Karsen had not lost for 53-54 matches so it's also a gamble to play the Catalan against Neyman Neyman pushes in d5, occupies the center Sevian develops the bishop in g2 follows bishop e7 and Neyman prepares to rook Knight f3 for Sevian Rook, Rook both put the king safe Now Neyman captures the c4 pawn gains a pawn although almost always this pawn is taken back with various maneuvers and Sevian immediately plays queen to 4 wants to take back the pawn Neyman continues with a6 and after queen to c4 plays b5 gains some time on the queen and prepares to flank the bishop in c4 Sevian takes back the queen in c2 follows bishop b7 bishop d2 Sevian plays the most played move the most played theoretical move Neyman continues with rook a7 rook a7 defends the bishop the rook in a8 is almost always in danger since there is the bishop in g2 and also with rook a7 the black wants to play rook d7 in the future theoretical move too Sevian pushes in a4 wants to capture in b5 Neyman however decides to keep the a-column closed follows bishop g5 knight d7 knight d2 queen in a8 Neyman in practice creates the queen and bishop battery and puts pressure along this diagonal here we already reach a critical position on the chessboard because when we are only at the thirteenth move and we are still in the opening Sevian starts to think for half an hour he thinks about it for a long time and then plays the move knight e1 but how? Sevian 2700 points and he trusts him he is a strong player he decides to play the Catalan he will have spent hundreds of hours if not a few thousand hours studying the Catalan and after 13 moves he does not know what to do this is incredible really absurd ok he plays knight e1 Neyman captures the queen in g2 and after knight for g2 he plays pawn c5 here it is Neyman has a good position now he has to try to communicate the towers for example he can double them on the c column or on the d column Sevian captures with the bishop in f6 and now Neyman surprises everyone because he plays pawn for f6 instead it was better to capture with knight or bishop but Neyman decides to play pawn for f6 incredible in practice he wants to continue to maintain the defense on the c5 pawn when in reality there was no need because the black can play c7 and c8 anyway Sevian jumps with the knight in b3 attacks the pawn in c5 Neyman captures in d4 follows c1 tower knight e5 Neyman plays the best move the pawn could not be defended in d4 Sevian captures it and Neyman plays d8 tower now Neyman's plan is to bring both towers on the d column since the d column is open the white is controlling the c column the game is now balanced Sevian captures the knight in b3 Neyman plays d7 tower follows the knight f4 king g7 also this is a very particular move why? because the black is inviting the white to play knight h5 check but let's see what Neyman's idea is Sevian plays knight h5 check and Neyman plays king h6 wow very interesting the king in h6 is not exposed actually no it is not so exposed the black is well positioned there why? because the white no longer has the d column so Neyman can afford to play on the dark houses he follows knight f4 for Sevian Neyman plays f5 he frees the diagonals of the d column and also controls the light houses with his pawns knight g2 for Sevian and Neyman withdraws the king in g7 now the position here is very difficult you have to try to understand what to do and actually Sevian is in trouble he plays queen b1 a strange move Neyman is controlling the d column and is also controlling the c column because if we see the pieces where they attack in practice controls the c column so Sevian does not have much space Neyman here continues with queen f6 with queen f6 he attacks in b2 but leaves the c5 house exposed then Sevian takes advantage of it and plays tower c5, follows knight g6 tower c4 the tower attacks the pawn in b4 Neyman defends with queen and follows queen c2 now in some way Sevian is managing to coordinate Neyman pushes in h5 he wants to play h4 and set up an attack on the king's side since then he can also come with the tower in h8 and increase the pressure on the h column Sevian blocks it and plays h4 Neyman continues with queen b8 then with queen b8 he is controlling these two houses and does not allow, for example, the tower to come in c7 also puts a certain pressure on the white's rook Sevian withdraws the queen in c1 plays the best move now Sevian is playing well even if he has little time, 4 minutes when we are at move 30 he has to play 10 moves in 4 minutes Neyman brings back the bishop in f6 follows knight a5 Sevian threatens to jump in c6 to give the double to queen and tower Neyman plays queen b6 follows knight b3 queen b8 knight a5 queen b6 knight b3 Sevian is basically offering a deal if Neyman had to play queen b8 the game would end in parity but Neyman here refuses to accept the draw and plays king h7 imprecision the position remains even follows knight f4 for Sevian Neyman doesn't capture but plays knight e5 attacks the tower tower c5 queen b7 Neyman is trying to attack points an eye on the king of white knight for h5 from Sevian wait, but Neyman just sacrificed a pawn yes, he just sacrificed a pawn and now the white returns to the game and starts to be a little better so Neyman is in trouble he has 1 minute left when we are at move 37 while Sevian has 2 minutes and 39, here there is a lot of tension Neyman withdraws the bishop in h8 follows queen c2 for Sevian tower in g8 you see, Neyman tries in some way to coordinate, he hopes to be able to attack Sevian withdraws and plays knight in f4 and here we reach another critical moment of the game Neyman takes the knight and is about to put it in g4 but then he realizes that there is something that doesn't go, he doesn't leave the piece and so here he makes confusion in practice you don't really understand where he wants to put it he withdraws it in e5 and then even places it in g6, he plays knight in g6 but the beauty in all this is that he is about to run out of time so he manages to click the clock when he has only 1 second left crazy, this is really an absurd scene look at this guys Hans Mock Neyman simply, here he was very lucky I would say ok, now he starts to be worse positionally and he also risks losing the game Sevian captures with the knight in g6 he follows with the knight in g6 and Sevian also brings the other tower into play Neyman plays queen in b6 he follows with the d1 tower luckily Sevian doesn't find the best move which was e4 to try to change the pawns and to increase the pressure on the king big advantage for the white but also here the white has an advantage but not excessive Neyman captures in d1 he follows with the queen in d1 big advantage for b2 Neyman even captures the pawn queen in d7 Sevian attacks the pawn in f7 Neyman defends with the tower and Sevian plays pawn in e3 here actually the white had a really devastating plan that is to play c8 tower followed by pawn in e5 and the black's queen was trapped so the black would have lost the queen big advantage for white instead, Sevian plays pawn in e3 Neyman withdraws the queen in b8 now he can't trap it and he's threatening moves like tower in g3 Sevian raises the king in g2 he's worried he follows queen in 8 c6 tower queen in c5 for Neyman and queen in c8 finally there's an imprecision Sevian offers the queen exchange Neyman refuses he plays queen in a7 he jumps the pawn in a6 and Neyman is forced to play queen in e7 white has again one more pawn and a bit of advantage however black is putting a lot of pressure as you can see so the position is not clear Sevian plays tower in a8 he threatens to enter in h8 and Neyman here he continues with the best move tower in g4 with this move he defends the h8 house with the bishop he defends the g8 house with the tower so white has no more chances Sevian withdraws the king in f1 he makes another imprecision and now the game returns in parity but not only after queen in d6 Neyman starts to believe he's putting pressure in g3 and he wants to play queen in a6 he attacks f7 Neyman runs away and after king in g2 he captures the knight he gains a piece but the position remains even even if Neyman has one more piece incredible but true he follows queen in f7 he runs away king in h6 queen in f8 he runs away this is the definitive mistake of the game now Neyman has a big advantage here Sevian had the way to equalize but he had to find a non-human move then with little time on the chessboard it was very difficult he had to play the move tower in 5 attacking the bishop and after bishop in g3 he follows he runs away in f6 with the queen king in h7 he runs away again with the queen king in h6 he runs away again with the queen so the game ends in parity instead after king in h7 if white tries to play the move tower he loses the game there is queen in c7 and then black can simply play tower in g7 defending the queen but after king in h6 Sevian plays queen in f8 Neyman runs away there are no more moves he follows queen in d6 queen in c4 Neyman is now ready to push the pawn and go to promotion Sevian continues with tower in d8 pawn in b3 tower in e6 he runs away king in h7 and again there are no moves Sevian plays queen in d7 Neyman pushes in b2 he follows tower in b6 queen in e4 he runs away pawn in f3 queen in c2 he runs away king in h3 this game is to be abandoned but Sevian doesn't and they even reach the crazy run he follows tower for queen queen for tower pawn for queen and queen h1 crazy run a very nice game by Neyman who gains 6 points there are a lot of 6 points at those levels because the opponent had 2700 points if Neyman had to beat these players he would go back up in the world rankings this is the right tournament to do it if he had to become an american champion I don't dare to imagine what would happen this evening there is the third turn Neyman will face Sam Shankland another 2700 we will see how this game will go thank you all for watching this video I remind you to like and subscribe to the channel see you next time