PLAYING THE MESSI OF CHESS??

So, okay, that's good. Okay, Faustino wants to play. What is this 20-day streak now? I don't care at all about that. Oh, Windsor plus five? Wow. Jeez. That's insane. Oh, he's 31-45. No wonder. I was like, what's going on? Yeah. Yeah. It's like 31-45 is just actually insane. Knight of four is a bad move too, but whatever. Go here. I should have played E5 probably. Okay, he goes there. I guess now I'll play E5. Go C4. I struggled versus him, won the match for a few games. He outplayed me. Aha. Nice. So if I take, he takes. If I go rook C1, this leads to a big imbalance. I think I'm just going to take and play here. Let's go here. Hit the queen. I've got D4 as well, which I'm going to play almost for sure. Okay. I can play H4. I don't know if I like H4 when I do a stop Bishop G5. He goes A4. I mean, I can play B4 and I'm not super concerned by Knight B5 actually, or Knight B6, I should say. Maybe I should be concerned. I can obviously sack the rook multiple ways here. Or I should just maybe go here. This doesn't look right, actually. Wait, what? Isn't this a free pawn? Wait, queen C4? Isn't this a free pawn or am I stupid? It looks like, oh, I could have played rook. Actually, I should have played rook C4. Why did I take with a queen? But Knight B5, I also have queen C6 maybe. I also have Knight D5 actually. Knight D5 takes Bishop D5 probably very strong too. But I think I should have just taken with the rook. Although I guess I have Knight B5, rook C1, which is also fine too, but I'll pre-move this. Yeah, now I have to think. I've got queen C6, which is definitely a move. Queen C6, queen B8, rook C1 looks pretty good actually. Then rook C8, queen D7. I think this is okay. I hope it's okay. I go back. I guard the pawn. I have Bishop F1 to hit the knight. Rook C8, queen D7. Should be okay. There's also Knight E6. Ah, maybe I should play Knight E6 here. Knight E6, Knight, okay, it's messy. I don't know, maybe. If I get Bishop F1, I win the game. Next move actually. Okay, it goes there. So he's trying to stop it. If I go Bishop F1, I don't actually see his move. Knight A7, queen D7. Yeah, this looks terrible. I should just be winning. I can even just take. Queen D7 is probably good, but I'm just going to take. There's two pawns. Assuming there's no weirdness on the king side. There's also queen D7. This should just be very clean. He is, I believe, 11 years old. Very, very good player. I expected G5. I thought I could just go like Knight H5, Knight F6, or queen D7 as well. Now I'll just go here and hit the bishop. There's also Knight D5 because this is going to collapse too. Yeah, I should just be winning. Let's see what he does here. This take, of course, because the bishop hangs on F5. I'm going to get a quick win. Show the kids how it's done. Exactly. That is the plan. Should just be winning. Yeah, he's going to resign. Let's keep going. Good first game. Fausti never tilts. I don't know if that's true. Let's play a Sicilian wine now. Let's have some fun. All right, he's going to play this. He's going to go Bishop B5 too. Oh, he's going to go Knight C3. Okay. I was going to play this old line. Okay, take. I go here and Knight D7. All pretty standard. A bit overrated. I think he's overrated, but I don't think he's overrated bigly. He's overrated, but not by that much, I would say. Yeah, I expected that. I can play Rook C8 here. If I go Rook C8, I'm going to do it. Maybe it's wrong, but I'm going to do it. I'm going to give up this pawn, but I figure I've got a bunch of counterplay. Super freak, but freak, super freak. Yeah, I don't really like this from him. Oh, he's trying to go Rook D1. I see his idea. I have Queen A5 maybe. Let's just go here. Force the Queens off. Why not? Knight B6, Knight B6, Knight B6, Queen H4 maybe. Maybe not so clear. Okay, I'm going to keep playing to trade the Queens. Let's go here. I also had Knight E5 maybe, but he's a kid. When you play the kids, you want to play end games. Kids are generally all tactics, no positional understanding. I'm kind of joking when I say that because kids are really good now, but that's the old school way is when you play a kid, you always want to go into end games because kids are bad at end games. All they are are tactics. When I was growing up, that's all you did. You should just play end games. You just play for end games against the kids and you just beat them in end games. I'm going to play old man chess because now I'm an old man. I'm an old man now. I'm not young like I once was. Bishop F4, good move by the way. If I go B5, what's he going to do? He's going to go A4, I assume. A4 could be a little bit unpleasant. Knight B6, not the Bishop F3. I don't want to castle. I don't want to play E6. I don't want to take. I don't want to do anything and I don't know what to do. E5 is an option. Maybe just Bishop. I don't like Bishop E5. Let's I've got to move. I'm too slow. I'm way too slow actually. What am I doing? Way too slow. I'm just going to go B5. I didn't even think about my next move after A4 but whatever. But I can go B4, A5. This B3, I have Knight A3 maybe. Maybe. A little bit murky. I can also maybe take this Knight on C3 and play Knight B6 maybe. A little bit unclear. I don't know. It doesn't look wonderful but it doesn't look like the end of the world. Actually A4, there's Knight B2. Actually wait, what's wrong with Knight B2? Knight B2, Rook B2 takes Rook B3, B A4, Rook A3. Let's go for this because I take and then I take. Oh he has Rook A2 which I missed. That's a very very good move. Yeah, I messed this up. Now I have to castle and just play the position. Shouldn't be so bad though. Go here, attack the Bishop. I mean I'm probably better objectively. I just know if I'm much better or a little bit better. Oh I had Knight B4 winning a pawn. What am I doing? Knight B4 just won. I had Rook A7 maybe. Maybe not so simple. I'm going to go check and takes. I have Rook C5 also maybe. Actually Rook A7, Rook C5 looks pretty decent. Go here, hit the Bishop. I don't want to go Knight B7. I mean Rook D8 is what I want to play but I should also, I mean I'm just going to play this to take the safe route. This now there's no risk of losing or there shouldn't be at least. Bishop D4 is an idea. I mean the pawn's a little bit weak. It's an endgame. There's some imbalance here. He goes for D7. I mean okay, I'll take. Okay now we'll see how good. This is an endgame that Cagnus would win for sure but I'm not Cagnus unfortunately as everybody knows. Let's just go. Just go here. I think this might be the endgame that Magnus won against Hans Niemann in the FTX event in Miami. I think Magnus won an endgame very similar to this. Yeah Magnus won something very similar to this against Hans Niemann. Don't I have E3 here? Wait what? She's trying to trick me. Oh I see he wants E3, Bishop F3. Okay let's just go like here. Let's go here and then I go E3. Oh he goes there? Wait but it should be winning for me I think. No it should be winning. Go here. Oh I could have gone Bishop E5 too maybe. All right so I've got to move. Why am I so slow? I'm super slow. Does that do nothing? Okay blunders I take and now I win. E5. Now I blunder this one. What the heck was that? That's so stupid by me. Okay there we go. Horrible game but we got the win. Two away. Let's keep going. I'm just gonna play C5. Let's go here and D4 I guess. Go here D4. I feel like I'm out playing him so far. Like I mean I messed that game up but I was out playing him. Let's go here and C4 of course. Just go here I guess. I'm gonna play this position. Normally I wouldn't do this but I'm kind of curious to see how he handles the pawn structure. Go here. Rook AC1. I've also got Knight F1 Knight G3 which is one of the other ideas I'm gonna play for. Where is the love? Let's go here. Knight F5 ideas. Diagonals. Rook C1. Okay go Z4. Let's play Rook C1. Tough position for Black to play. It's not like this is terrible or anything but it's a tough position to play. It goes there. Wait. Wait a second. So if I take. If I. Ah wait wait but if I take he takes Knight E4 Bishop H2 or something. I still think I'm better here though. I still think I'm better after Knight E4. Maybe not. Actually not really. I should have taken H5. What am I doing? But he blunders with Queen H4. He should have taken right away. Now at least even if I don't have an advantage I play. I can keep the game going and it goes on. I've got like Queen E5 here. And now there are problems. There's some problems here. Rook D4 is an issue. It goes there which to me looks insane actually. Like. Wait. Wait. I go like Bishop C4. This looks very scary to me. Maybe it's fine for Black but it looks scary. Okay Queen G4. So he's trying to go H4 I guess. D6 H4. Okay how do I do this? That's actually a good move. Potentially a very good move actually. Wait. So go here and then Queen F4. I can also just take and play Queen G3 maybe. Let's take and go Queen G3. I think I'm winning here actually. Maybe winning's too strong but I'm up material. I'm starting to push my P on the Queen side and I think this is very hard to play for Black. I have a good position. Whether I'm winning. Whether I'm going to win this game or not is a whole different question. But I have what I want. It goes Rook D8. That's what I expected. I can obviously trade. I don't really want to trade but I think I'll trade and play Queen F4 here. And now I mean this is very hard for Black to play. If he plays Rook D1 I just trade and go King. He goes there. Okay so I'm in. Go Bishop C4. Okay one second. Got to move. Got to move. Queen C7. No. Bishop C4 H3. Queen C7 maybe. I want to go Queen C7. Okay he misses. He missed. What am I doing? Let's go here. Another mistake by me. Let's just take. Logical. Let's go here. Trade the Queens. I'm still better I think with perfect play. But I'm going to have to be very precise to... I'll go here. Bishop G2 maybe. I mean I think with perfect play I'm still better here. But it's going to require a lot of precision. Let's go here maybe. I should be fine here. Let's go here maybe. I don't know why I did that. Here. Oh my gosh I blundered mate. What am I doing? Oh yeah that was terrible. I just blundered mate for no... Wow. I just blundered mate for no reason. That was horrible. Okay let's reset. That was really sloppy. Because now he's going to get a lot of confidence until the second second wave. But luckily if I beat him three to one I still gain points. So it's not the end of the world. That was yeah. I just went blind. Yeah I don't know what that was. Yeah I'm 900. I saw it. Yeah I just went blind for a split second. Let's take with the Queen and play Rook D8. This is very old school by the way. It's like Capablanca style stuff. Straight out of the 1920s. I'll go B6. That was insane. I'm 100. I saw that. Congratulations. I'm going to take for the imbalance here and go Bishop B6. But there's no imbalance. It's just equal. I mean I'm fine but it's just very equal. Like I can take but it's just going to be a draw. Let's see if I go Knight C5 and play Rook C8 here. Go here. I just don't want to blunder. I'm also a little bit slow again though. Again I'm down on clock which is not good. It's there which is kind of weird. Go here. Stop B4 of course. That was really bad. I could have made a draw there too. Actually insane. Okay so I take and play E5. I'm going to try to create an imbalance again in the position. Not worth at least but E4 feels like a slightly incorrect move. I don't know why. It just feels slightly imprecise. I guess I'll go here to hit the pawn. E4 feels a little bit dubious. It feels like a bad positional move from Faustino here. Like I feel like I should be doing quite well. It goes B4 but now I have Knight E4. Knight E4, B takes. Okay slow down. Slow down. Just think for a second. I cannot wait. No I should maybe take first. B5, Knight C3, Rook E1, E4, A6. I'm going to go for it. I can take and play Knight C3. He plays Rook E1 first which I saw was a move but for some reason I thought I had something here. I thought I had something. I've got Rook C3, Queen B2, Queen D5 maybe. I'm low on clock again though which is a big problem. E7, not F6 of course. Just got to move. Let's go here. I just take A2 of course which doesn't do anything. I mean I guess I'll take and go check. Yeah this is not what I want. I'm not even up on clock either which is a big problem. A little bit too dry. A little bit too dry. Not enough imbalance in this position here. Not enough imbalance. Nowhere near enough. Let's go here. That's not a good move either but maybe I play here. I've got Knight E4. Some tricks. Wait what's that? Wait wait wait. I'll go here. Knight E3. Wait it's getting a little bit tricky. Knight F4, King G3, G5 maybe. Of course I'm misplaying this too. I'll go G5 here. I'm a little bit too slow again. Like time is killing me. Same thing with when I played Buddy Pranav. Same problem. When I played Buddy I was way too slow and now again. I guess I'll take and go check. Wait let's go check. Go here and it's still probably a draw but it's tricky. It's also Knight F2. King E6 I just check. Yeah it's just winning. Okay gonna get a win. This makes up for the last one because I never in a million years should have won this game but I will be winning this one. Let's go here. Yeah do I rook H3? I do yeah. Yeah never in a million years should I have won this one. Music is not great today. It needs more energy. Yeah this one should have been a draw so the previous game gets wiped out by this one because I never should have won this last game. D4. Interesting move. Okay I'll just play E4. He can play M Peasant if he wants to. I don't think he will but he could. Could have played E3, E4 also interesting. He does go for it so he plays M Peasant. Knight D5 just Knight F1 of course. I have to be a little bit careful here. I can play E4. I think I should play E4. Knight D5 kind of a little bit pesky. Castle Knight D5 could be a big issue so I don't want to allow it. Oh it's just castle. I can play H3 here. Knight C4 also in play. He goes for this. Okay so wait do I have E5? Wait E5? Wait E5? Interesting. Wait let's see seven takes takes. Kind of interesting. Okay I'm getting to it. I play H. Nah just go for it. I don't know if it's right. Wait what? Wait always got Queen D4. I'm blind. Okay that's just terrible by me. I missed Queen D4 completely. Horrible. I just blundered a pawn for no reason. Again tactics. Very sloppy tactics from me. Okay I just have to find a way to keep this game going. Let's play Rook F3. Knight E4 maybe. Yeah it's just terrible for me though. Go here. I just need to move quickly. I need to move quickly. Put pressure on the clock and just keep the game going. Knight Knight F3 also fine. Just ridiculous for me though. I guess I'll go could play C. No I'll go Knight E5. Let's go C4. I'm not sure I like Knight D5 by the way. Oh he's got Knight E7 which of course I also missed. Wait that's a free pawn? Okay it's still not great for me but it's not the end of the world already. It's not wonderful but it's not the end of the world by any stretch. Okay I mean A4 is a move. Let's just go A4 Knight C6 I guess. Let's go here. I'm gonna try this. Knight C2. I have Queen G3. At least that's my plan. Okay of course I take like H3. I'm worse. I'm slightly worse here but I don't think I'm losing anymore. Let's just go like here I guess. He's already misplaying this kind of. Just go maybe here. No that's a bad bad move also. Oh I didn't even see Queen D3. What the heck? I didn't even see that move. I didn't even see Queen takes D3. What's wrong with me? Oh wait I can't go there. There's Rook E7 always. He missed something that was winning I think. Let's go here I guess. He was winning there but he missed it. Let's see I don't want to sack. Go here. Oh I blundered Rook D2 also. That's just a big blunder for me. Hmm. Yeah that's no good. Gotta move. You gotta go. You gotta go. Gotta move. Yeah I gotta move. I gotta move. I'm too slow. Yeah I mean I'm trying to go over some Knight F6 tricks. Oh wait no I go here. Check King G3. Still maybe okay. What is this? Oh I can draw. Oh my god. I can draw. Okay take the draw. Don't get cocky. He could have just Queen'd. He could have just Queen'd. Yeah I mean only Magus or I could have saved. He thought it was mate. He had King H6. Aye yai yai. Okay um let's go check. Ridiculous. Perpetual attack. Yeah I was perpetually attacking his King. Um what is this? I don't know what I'm doing. I'm wondering if I can take but I'm not gonna go for it. Let's play chess. Yeah that makes up for the game before that I lost. I never I mean the game that I lost earlier was definitely not losing in this. Um I'm thinking I can go just Queen d8 maybe. I don't know what I'm doing. I'm playing a bad game here. There's Bishop b5 but maybe it's not so bad. I can go F Bishop g7 maybe and just castle and maybe I'm fine actually. It's not so bad. I could play e4 too. Yeah let's go e4 and then knight e5 and I expect Faustino to start tilting soon. If he loses this game he's going to be on full tilt. He's still not yet. He's still not tilted yet. After King h6 g5. No my knight is on h5 in that line. My knight is on h5 so it doesn't work you guys. No my knight's on h5 there. I think I'm gonna go here to stop f4. No no no my knight is on h5 in that one. If he Queens rook g7 King h6 g5 the knight hangs on h5. Yeah yeah it doesn't work. No no no it doesn't work. Okay I mean I can play f5 here. He's gonna go knight e3 and f4 maybe. Wait okay let's think about this. I know I'm fine here. I just have to play this correctly. I think I'm just gonna go here on bishop e6. Why not? I could have played bishop e6 right away but eh whatever. Okay let's just go. I could play. No I'm just gonna play it safe here. Bishop e6 seems like a pretty stable move. Guard my center. I have Queen h4 Queen f6 rook g8. Okay I mean Queen f6 is fine. I think I'm gonna go rook g8 though. Now Queen f6 next move. Really try to put the pressure on the King side here. Pre move fe6. See what he does. Goes rook g1. Logical. Queen f6 looks very logical just to hit the pawn. I mean this looks very bad for white objectively. Also knight d3. I mean I think I'm just gonna play like. Could also go bishop g4 here which actually looks very dangerous here. There's a knight d3 trick looming as well. It's not. No but it's not best. I missed knight e3 and now I have nothing. Eh maybe nothing's a relative term. Let's say take and play like here maybe. Maybe Queen g5 Queen g7. But I'm up on clock which is good. Let's go here. Queen g3. So if I take and play knight c4 that's a move. I can also go just. I'm gonna go for this. This might be wrong but I've got a legendary triple stack on the lane. I think this is okay. I mean this looks terrible for what. Whoa rook f7. I don't have a tactic like knight h2 or something. I mean knight e3 is a move as well. It's not the move I want to play. Queen h6 maybe. Wait a second. No Queen h6 h3. Queen h5 h3. Queen e3 is a move too but I think I'm just gonna just gonna take. Keep it simple. Go here. Knight g4. Rook g3 ideas as well. Let's go here. Attack the pawn. Now knight e5 and now he's in a lot of trouble. It's not like this is winning by the way but he's in trouble. Let's take. Let's check. There's knight e3 also. There's rook. I mean he's struggling to defend this. I don't think he's going to be able to defend this. Wait a second. Knight e3. King f2. I'm just gonna get really cheeky here. Wait. Let's go check. Ah what am I doing? I'll go e3. Try to get really sneaky here. Now I blundered this too of course naturally. Blundered that too. Nice. I let him off the hook. I don't know what that is My breath. Is he gonna go over the same line? He probably will. Let's just play here. d4 e4. Of course it's a draw but anyway I win on time. Okay. Goes there. Okay. I'm gonna play the same line. I mean I just didn't believe in this somehow. I mean let's see. I think I'm gonna play h3 here. I'm gonna go e4 in castles and all very standard. Uh e5 here is. Oh no e5 here doesn't work either. What am I doing? So let's go here and hit the bishop and then e5 knight d6 maybe. Oh wait. If I go e5. I'm gonna go for it. There's knight d6. I mean I assume I've got big tactics here. Maybe not but we'll see. Takes. Okay. I saw. I thought he could take this. Now first of all I bishop f3 but I can also just take. I think I'm gonna take and I'm gonna take and I'm gonna take and then I'm just up a pawn and I should be winning again. Yes yes yes. Does he have bishop h2 and bishop g2? No I've got bishop g4. Almost. Almost. I thought he could maybe check take and go for this but it doesn't work. So I have bishop g4. My secret. So I was winning after he played king e3. I mean probably but who cares. I'm waking up. Yes I am. It takes. I mean I didn't think this worked. Okay so wait. This should not be working but I have to be precise. Actually why did I move instantly? I mean I could have used more time. So he wants it. This should not be working but I have I mean first of all I can go here. Step one. If I play queen e2, bishop g3, king g1. I think this is okay. King over and I block. I think this. I mean I hope this is okay. It might not be okay at all. I think it's the only move which is even weirder. Unless I want to make a draw. I guess I go. Actually wait. I can go to g2 here as well. Wait. If I go to g1 he's gonna. Wait. If I go to g1 what's the move? I don't understand. I don't understand. I can go to g2 f3 also but don't. Don't I just take? I mean it should be winning. I didn't even. But I didn't even have to take. I mean this might be a little bit too far also. It's probably winning but I don't know. Okay castles but now I mean now that this has to just be winning. I just go like bishop d5 and queen g2. I mean I have to be guarding. Bishop e4 also looks more than enough. Looks like it's more than enough. Yeah it should be good enough. I also have knight e3 as well to go to f5. Yeah his attack is fizzling. Should be winning. Okay knight e3 looks pretty clean with knight f5. All my secrets away. Let's go here. Queen g2 obviously. Resigns. Let's go again. Pretty good game. Give all my secrets away. Let's play e6 again. He's probably. But why am I doing this? I'm being too solid. He's gonna be happy with a draw. I'm being way too solid. Now I could play the dc4 lines but I'm gonna play simple chess. e3. c5 is a move here I believe. But I'm gonna go a6. I'm gonna play like Levi Roseman. Now I can take and play b5 here. Let's play like a Levi Roseman. Levi was playing this a lot in some event. I'm gonna play h6. I can also just go b4. That's what I'm gonna do. This is kind of like the Janikowski. Let's play h6. Bishop h4. I mean I can take if I want. I can also go bishop e7. Very very slow and boring. How do I want to play this? Bishop d6 also decent with queen b8. What do I want to do though? I'm thinking too long again. What do I want to do? Here's the question. I think I'm just going to play simple chess. I can obviously take. I can play knight d5. I can also go like rook c8 to guard the pawn. It's a little bit too solid for me though. Again a little bit too solid. Let's go here to hit the knight. He'll probably go b3 I assume and then I have to come up with a move. Bishop d5. Not exactly the best move in the world. Actually b3. Maybe I've got knight e4. So maybe not so clean. Goes knight e5. Now if I take, he's going to take with the pawn I assume. Takes takes. Knight e4. I lose the pawn. I can also go a5. I don't want to. I can also take. So so many options. I'm just going to take. Too many options here. So I'm just going to move quickly. He takes this one. I could play rook c1 here actually. If I go rook c1, knight f6, bishop f6, queen there, takes. Knight d4. Probably okay. Bishop f6. I mean um okay. Wait rook c1. Wait okay. Queen d7. Can't be right. Just take. Just takes takes. I take h4 and I should be fine. Queen d7 rook c8 was probably fine okay. This I'm a little confused by because now a4 is hanging. Is Faustino tilting just a touch? I think he is. He's still not in any kind of real trouble here but I think he is tilting just a tad. Rook e8 probably better. Rook e8 probably a little bit better but whatever. I feel like he's starting to tilt just a touch though. I could play a5. It's a little bit risky. a5. There should be five queen a2. Who cares? Let's live life on the edge because if he goes here, I go queen a2. I'm not going to let him launch an attack and assault my queen. So let's go queen a2. Hit the pawn. Yeah. Now my queen is going to assault the pawn on b2 here. I can move the knight. I should be doing well. We're going to do a viewer arena soon you guys. Yeah. Exactly. Let's incorporate the new language that we learned today into our comments. That's just a free pawn so I'll capture it. Yeah. I should just be winning here. I'm just pushing my p. I'm going to go b3. Okay. I know I'm winning here. It's just about technique now. Maybe here to attack the bishop. Yeah. Okay. I have e5. Oh no. He's got bishop h7. Oh my god. Oh my god. I don't want to hang that. I almost... I had bishop e4 though which would probably... Bishop e4 is probably winning there. Whatever. Okay. Let's focus. I can go queen c3. I also have e5 again. No. Wait. Now I've got e5 because now there's no fossil or what's it called? Discover something. I don't know. But now he's going to lose the bishop due to the relative pin because we're pinning everything on this file. So I should be winning. Not to be confused with the crosshair pin. Yeah. It should be gg. I take. The rook's not under attack here. It's just gg. Knight e4. Logical. Let's just go like here. I don't know. Takes. Yeah. There we go everybody. Big win. Up to 3300. Hikaru the man of fancy words. Yep. There we go. That's it. And that's a good six game match too. Pretty good. I mean there were a couple of shaky games. The game I lost I shouldn't have lost. But there are other games that I played worse and got lucky in. So relative. Relative spot. All right. Let's create an arena. We're going to do an arena.