Another El Clasico Magnus vs Hikaru

I'm going to play Magnus. Let's just play e4. What are the standings? Four and a half, four and a half. I'm one of six guys on four and a half. Not playing Fabulous, but I'm still half point out in first place, so I can just wake up and play a few good games. It's all Gucci. Also, this is a sign of the ratings, too. The fact that I'm somehow maintaining my rating with a draw after five rounds shows just how inflated everybody's rating has become now. Let's play the classic Spanish opening like everybody plays these days. It is all the rage. Okay, now I'll play d3, why not? Should I go bishop b3, bishop b2 like I did against Muse? Okay, um, play c3. h3 isn't even necessary here, because bishop g4 isn't really the main line, but, yeah, I'm here. Oh, knight b, oh, I thought I'd go knight c5. Actually, why do I feel like I have this against somebody? Let's go here. I feel like I have this against, um, Matlakov or something similar. Okay, a5, I don't want to play this. d5, d5, I'm, of course, very slow again, which is not helpful. Don't want to play a4, don't want to play a3 either, really. I'm just going to go knight d2. Yeah, logical. Okay, I'm very slow, though. Why am I so slow this game? Jeez. Like, I'm way too slow. Way too slow. I just got to move fast. I don't even care what I do. I just got to move fast. Like, it's insane to be this slow. And 5-0 wouldn't matter, but in 3-0, it's just crazy to be this slow. I think he made a mistake, because now I get d5. It's not a mistake mistake, but it's definitely not correct. I don't want to play a3. I have queen d4, maybe? Queen d2. Okay, I got to move, though. Yeah, why am I so slow today? way too slow way too slow here at the start but that's why i'm actually that's why i'm thinking on his time here while he decides what where to go that looks wrong but i don't know why no wait wait wait a second just too slow i'm just too slow just too slow or okay take i have f4 here maybe i don't care though i'm down on time i just gotta move too slow way too slow i think there should be tricks here um 97 maybe g4 also moved too, I have rook e7 here big threat, c5's hanging This is not what I want to do either, but b5 I think was a bad move. It's not losing, but it was a bad move. What's this stupid noise? My god, what's that noise? That noise is really annoying, by the way. Like, really freaking annoying. Oh, I just blundered now. Unreal. Just a draw. I have to take the draw. I think I was winning there at the end. I just made a... I made one slip. Yeah, I was probably winning here, right? No, I'm not winning. Still a draw? That's just a draw? Ah, here apparently. Ah, king d3, king e4. Is that the way that I'm winning? King e4. That's how I'm winning. Too slow. I was just too slow in the middle though. I was too slow in the middle and so then I didn't have time to think. I mean, that's just a byproduct of moving too slow earlier in the game. What's this new sound? I mean, it's really annoying. Chess.com changed the illegal move sound. Yeah, they changed the sound. It's really annoying, actually. I'm going to complain to Chess.com. They probably did some weird testing and they thought that for kids it sounds cooler or something. I don't know. Weird. I'm sure I can turn it off, but they made it the default. They made it the default noise. Like, I mean, they just made the default. The other noise was amazing. The previous sound was like, eh, eh, eh. Like, I could live with that, but this is just not okay, especially if you're in a time scramble. Yeah. All right. Okay, Magnus on six out of six. I'm on five out of six. Not where I'd like to be, but it is. Who's knocking on the door? Yeah. Can confirm, I am a kid, and it sounds super cool to me. Brain rot. Brain rot, baby. Brain rot. Absolute brain rot. Blame for the loss. I mean, I actually drew that game, so I can't complain, but yeah. Still Magnus's points. Oh, right. We're on the hydration break. So this is our first and only hydration break of the streams. We're going to go use the Russian. We'll come right back and we'll keep rolling. Give me one second. Okay, here we go. Drop the monitor. Round seven. I'm going to play the rude boy, Rudik McCarron. I beat him in title Tuesday, I think in a, yeah, two days ago in a Catalan. I don't want to play Catalan today. Play a French. Now I could just trade off. I don't really want to. Actually, let's take, let's create an imbalance at the very least. I can play knight c6, which obviously is not the main move here. Logical. I can play d5, though, right? I want to rock and roll all night. Party every day. I want to rock and roll all night. Party every day. I want to rock and roll all night. Party every day. I now I have c5 here. I have rook c8, which is a little bit unusual. Rook c8 takes e4. I'm going to do this. I'm going to go for something a little bit cheeky. I'm going to take with the pawn. I'm going to double my pawns. And he sees it, though. He sees it. I'm doing something a little bit cheeky here. Yeah, he sees it, unfortunately. So if I play c5, it's also just knight d7. Knight c4. Bishop f6, I don't like. Let's go here. I'm actually, like, on purpose trying to get him to take so I can hit this pawn. But I don't know if this is actually good. It's just an attempt by me to create an imbalance. E4, I expected that. Let's go here. I'm going to play g6 to take away a square from the knight. that's a good move actually that's a very good move so here maybe it's not actually no it's not if i take and play knight g4 there's also queen c4 here i'm gonna go queen c4 and try to force a trade of queens okay trades i should probably take with the rook i would assume yeah i expected that um i can obviously take and play knight d7 oh there's knight of knight of four d4 though knight of four d4 maybe there's still e6 takes takes six knight f6 actually doesn't move too Actually, I think e6 knight is the right move. Let's go here. I don't like rook e2 at all, by the way. I should have played a5. Stupid by me. I should be better here, I feel like. h5 I can take or just go king g7. I feel like I should be better here somehow, but that's a5, rook a7. That's a good move by him. You've got to move. Wait, but I've got check. No, it's not checkmate. You can just take the pawn. What am I doing? Fudge. No, I was just losing. What am I doing? Rook c6 and I just lose. maybe not maybe it's still a draw that's still a draw i think it's a draw yeah i mean i'm down on time i get work ah it's so frustrating oh i had rook c3 but it's still it's still a draw right it's still a draw though i thought i was better here i mean i should not have gone b5 i should have gone a5 but still equal oh uh takes i should have played the other order like this played the wrong order this was actually better oh frustrating Also, now if I play Magnus, I'm so far behind that it's going to be where I have to win just to salvage something. Thanks, Sal. Frustrating. I haven't played badly. Wrong move order that game. He defended well. Nothing I could do. Rook B7, Rook B8 was a very good idea by him. He just defended well. He just defended well. Nothing needs to be said. He just defended very well. Sometimes that's how it goes. Your opponent defends well. A lot of players would have collapsed there, but the check in Rook B8 was very, very solid. Yeah, very, very solid from him. Yeah, very, very solid from him. Okay, let's go back to E4. I don't think Knight C2 actually was a great move, but I thought it was a pretty good move. We're going to play some G6 stuff again. I believe here... I don't remember which line do I want to play is the question. I'm just going to play this one. It's down a tempo, but it shouldn't be a problem. Rook E1 was actually the correct one. Rook E1 with Knight E3, Knight C2, but whatever. Let's go here. Okay, B5's interesting. I don't think that's a great try. Because now my knight's going to get to C5. B4, I have knight E5. I can play H3 here if I want to. I think I will just do it. Just force a trade. He should trade. Or he's thinking about it. So maybe he wasn't expecting H3. Oh, he doesn't trade. Interesting. Okay, so now I'll go knight C5. Here we go with the knight. Take with a knight. I think I will, and I'll play knight E5 here probably. Okay, interesting. I could take with a pawn here. In fact, I think I should just take with a pawn. Probably e6, but we'll see what he does. Yeah, I should be better here. Just e6 next move. Knight e4, f3 wins material. Actually, it doesn't necessarily. Knight kind of gets out. No, it doesn't get out. Of course, e6. Logical. Go here, guard the rook, hit everything. I should just be better. I have bishop g5, rook e1. Yeah, bishop g5, rook e1. Very, very pleasant position here. These pawns all look a little bit weak here in the center. Should be very good for me. Rook f7, very standard. Let's get the pawn, of course. Obviously trade. Bishop h6, some move. I think I'll just trade. Knight e5 now. He's going to have to take the pawn and then, like, rook e1. Here comes the legendary triple stack on this open file. There is knight f8, which I missed, by the way. Knight b6 was not the move. Bill's slightly wrong. How do I punish him for this move? This looks wrong. H4, h5. I think I'm just going to go. I'm just going to go on the king side here and try to attack him. This knight looks offsides completely. Keep going. Rook e8 was also a move, I guess. I'm trying to play very simple chess, like José Raúl, Capablanca. Let's take and go queen g4. Knight f4 is my initial plan. I also have rook e8 here, which might be very strong. I'll just go rook e8. This whole exchange variation with Caro-Kann was really popularized by José Raúl. We trade. I must be winning here somehow. h4, d4, rook e6? No, not rook e6. Queen D4, Queen D6, Knight C5, Rook E7. If I go Queen H4, Queen H4, King F7, I'll just go here. Somehow I've got to be winning. I've got all these jumps with the ponies. Maybe Queen G3 was good too. Wait, so if I go here, this G5, I have tickle check and I should be winning. Okay, but now I still got Queen D8. I still got Queen D8, but whatever. This has to be winning. I'm going to have to go back and then I go here. Knight E6 idea, big threat to fork everything here. Wait a sec. Knight E6, Queen E8, Rook C7 takes. Should just be winning. Just check and takes. Thank you. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay, I can take the rook. I can play rook c7. I can also play b3. Okay, I can also just ignore it, too. I think I'm just going to ignore it with queen d4. I'll pre-move this in case he takes. Oh, I had queen h8, which is winning, actually. Wait, now... Wait, let's just take... Queen h8 was just winning, wasn't it? No, queen h8 was just winning. What am I doing? I think queen h8 was just winning, right? Let's go back. Yeah, queen h8. What am I... Ridiculous. We still got the win anyway. Let's go back to Magnus Carlsen. Magnus Carlsen is actually down on clock here. E5, E6, E6, and you just lose. Check, and E7. E6, check. Yeah, yeah. Magnus loses here. Takes. Rook, E6. Thanks. Yeah. But Magnus is still leading in the tournament, even after that loss. They start off so hot. Alexei casually joining after losing to Fabi. Fabi also joined, too. Fabi also joined the tournament. I'm still half point out, so I still won't get Magnus. Maybe in round 11, I'll get him if I win. Yeah, I mean, I won't get him this round because there are too many guys on seven, but maybe in round 11, I'll get him if I win. Do you want to dance? And that's... I'm going to play a normal opening again, like I did last game. Don't feel like playing nonsense. Let's play D5 again. Catalan? No, no Catalan. I'm going to play very, very uber solid and boring against Minlay. All right, he's just going to play like this stuff. I'll go A6, which is a little bit dubious here, by the way. It's not the best move, but I'll do it anyway. I think I'll take it with Pawn. At some point, I have to play C6, so I might as well just do it now. Probably goes H3. Knight F8, Bishop B6, Knight H6, all very boring, all very standard. As I mentioned in my recap yesterday, Queen's Gambit declined. All right. Has been the most solid opening for literally the last 5,000 years. Maybe I should have played Knight G6 first, but let's go here. Okay. So, if I go here, he can make a draw. And I guess I have to do this then. I didn't want to do this, but I have to. If I go here, he probably will just try to force a draw. I have to go Queen e7 and Knight e4. I mean, this is very, very old stuff. I should have one more tempo here. Actually, I'm missing a tempo, right? I have Rook a3, maybe? I should be e4, and then I take... I get this Knight h4, so which is what I'm aiming for. He can also just go Rook b3. Yeah, of course he does, as expected. I did. 6-6 Knight h4, maybe? 6-6 Knight g5, maybe? Again, I'm thinking too long. I'm just going to go for this. This probably isn't right, but I'll do it anyway. Maybe it's okay. We'll see. I also should have had one more tempo in the opening I should have played um I should have played this first force the bishop and then played bishop d6 and I would have had one extra tempo versus the game but oddly even though I even though I misplayed it and I'm missing that tempo I'm still probably kind of okay here because now okay queen f6 was oh why did I go queen f6 I should have just played queen f6 um so I'll just go for it why not bishop g4 I've got a five I also have h5 um f5 there's also Rook e8 wait a second There's also Rook G6. There's also Rook H6. Wait, wait, wait. Rook H6, F4. Rook H6 is wrong. Rook G6, F4. Rook G6, G3. Takes Queen G4. Rook G6 is wrong. Wait, I missed this completely. Ah, what am I doing? I completely missed this move altogether. What am I doing? Now I'm going to get flagged, of course. Ridiculous. I have to make another draw. Fudge me. Just fudge me. Like, why am I so slow today? I'm so slow. Why am I so slow? i'm playing like it's a classical game of chess why i mean what i played was correct rook g6 was the best move but takes knight if i hear that sound again i'm probably gonna kill someone but h5 i mean h5 bishop c8 and the knight h4 and it's just some big big mess yeah I should have just played that in five seconds. Then I spent 30 seconds late with a classical game, and then I put myself in an impossible situation. Some players could have done that, by the way. Like, an Oli Rezic could have done that, because he's just that good. But I'm not good enough to do it. I missed Queen B4. I moved 25. Moved 25. Huh? Oh, Queen B4. Wow. Okay, I was so tunneled on the king side. That's a nice move. That's a nice... Queen B4 is a nice move. Nice move. I didn't even... I was so tunneled on the king side, I spent too much... Ah, terrible. Yeah, if I had five minutes I would have found Queen B4 but everything I did in that game was wrong, my time usage was terrible, everything I did like what I can't spend one minute there what are you doing spending one minute, I mean what am I doing spending one minute it's ridiculous for me, no Queen B4 I can find if I have a lot of time but I'm so tunneled on everything going the other direction that it's a tough move to play okay let's play knight f6 again I feel like I've had a lot of blacks in this term I'm imagining it or not, maybe I'm imagining, I feel like I've had like 20 blacks in this tournament Am I imagining it? Okay, I don't have time to look, so. Could trade and play knight c5 somewhere. I think I'm just gonna go rooks, or no, I've gotta go g6 first, Stop this knight f5 idea. But yeah, I am incredibly slow, which is really not helping. Incredibly slow today. I'm gonna try this knight b8 move. It's probably no good, but I'm gonna try it anyway. Here, hit the pawn. Because now if he takes, I can trade the knights and take, and I win the game. Maybe with king f6. I mean, I'm not playing terribly today. I'm just too slow today. Actually, knight b3 was just a4, a4, d5, okay. I've got knight d4 here, of course. I've got knight d4 and rook d8, both moves here. Actually, I think I'm doing very well here. I don't think I'm doing well. I think I'm doing very well. But the knight's coming to d4. And actually, this rook's just getting trapped. There's no square. Yeah, I saw that. Now the question is, where do I put my rook? If I go rook to d8, it looks correct. Let's play here. I'm going to go knight d4 next, pretty much no matter what he does. Go here. Rook c4. Oh, if I play b5, there's c6 still. Of course, obviously. Let's still do it. What am I doing? I'm too slow, suddenly. Again, I'm too slow. Queen a7, rook c5, knight, wait, queen a7 maybe? No, queen a7 or c7 knight f3. I think that's winning. Yeah, this should be winning. No, rook d2, queen d2, wait, rook d2, oh, no, it's just rook c7. Wait, wait, wait a second. Let's see, seven. What just happened? What just happened? Oh, come on, what is this? Am I still here? Wait, he's having connection issues. Oh my gosh, this is just chess.com being It's 897 or 87. Yeah, this is GG. Yeah, he also had a connection issue too, so that was just classic chess.com. I just take a check. Okay, that was a little bit scary, I'm not going to lie. That would have been a really tragic way to end on a disconnection in a winning position. Thank you, Sean. We get the win. Let's watch Cactus Marilson. Cactus Marilson is playing Minlay. He is better, but not much better. But he's going to win because he's got an open file and he's up on time. He's going to win this game. Yeah. Yeah. He's going to win this game. So he's got an open lane and he's, he's got two open lanes. The center's weak. Black has no counter play. There's zero chance that Cactus doesn't win this game. Okay. So Cactus is going to, or Cagnetor or Magnus, let's just use his real name is going to win the game. This means that I am going to be on, um, wait, no Turbo Tom is still playing. He is losing. Okay. So what does this mean? So I'm going to get what third on tie break, I guess I'm going to get second or third on tie break. I assume since I won, I should get Let's watch Magnus. Assuming Magnus wins, I'll get third. I mean, Minlay somehow created a lot. He's managed to clog the toilet on the h-file. So he has some small chances of surviving. 93. Night of four. Ooh, okay. Magnus might lose this. Night of four. Oh, oh, mouse. Oh my God, what a mouse slip. Oh, what a mouse. Oh, what a mouse slip there. Oh my God. What a mouse slip. He meant to take the, oh, he would have won. I think, I think Minlay would have won this game here. I think he would have won. He was up four, Minlay would have won this game. Minlay would have won this on time. The position's not winning, but he would have won this on time. That is so crushing for Minlay. Minlay would have won that, and he probably would have gotten first place. Minlay had a better tiebreaker than I, oh, man. Aye yai yai. For Minlay, that's brutal. That's going to help me in the standings, maybe. I don't know. We'll see. Maybe not, because a bunch of people won. Who knows? That's brutal. No, I don't get third place, because apparently some other people won who had better tie breaks. But whatever. You're not done? Yeah, the stand is... Oh, wait a second. There's one more round. Okay. Sorry. Okay. Let's focus. What happened? I thought that was the last round. I'm like, okay, we're done. We're done. And it's like, wait a second. There's actually I'm still not going to play, I'm still not going to play Magnus, because Magnus hasn't played on Draken, I don't think. Has he? Let's see, has, Magnus didn't play on Draken, I don't think. Good tip. I'm going to play Magnus, okay. Let's just play E4. See what he wants to play. Yeah, I mean, I just lost my mind. Yeah, I was ready to end the stream right there. Yeah. Yeah, he's going to play his F6, okay. This is not good for black, by the way, but he's going to play E6. I'm going to play 97 logical. Just going to play standard chess here. Let's go Bishop E3. But against Magnus especially, I need to move quicker. I can't be super slow. Knight d2 is good or not, but I'll play it anyway. Queen h5, also an interesting option as well. Really want to play a 4 somewhere. I'll just play a 4 right here. Because bishop c5, now I have knight b3. And queen b6, I have knight c4. Probably a6, bishop d3. Okay, takes. I'd rather obviously take the pawn. d5, e5, looks fine. Let me live. e5, b6, d5. Let's think about this. D5 also a move here. No, D5 is a move. Let's just go for it. It takes, takes, takes Bishop D3. Could be interesting. But I take, take Queen H5. Why is this not just good for me? Oh, of course. I'm an idiot. Played the wrong order again. Still should be good. Rook F3, Rook H3, also very dangerous here. Now, I know I'm better here, but how do I convert this is the question. I'm not actually sure, and I don't want to burn too much time, so let's just go for the classic approach. 97 is a great move that I missed, actually. That's a fabulous move from Magnus. I still should be better here, though. You can obviously take, but with the Rook, I mean, this should be great for me. Okay, so he's going to sack the Rook. I can play Knight C6 as well, but I think I should just go for this. Oh, did I just blunder? Well, I did, but I did blunder, but I didn't blunder at the same time. Yeah, I mean, it's an in-between. It's like it's a blunder and not a blunder at the same time. I think I should be better here somehow. It's a good move, though. Go here. I really don't like Bishop F3, but I don't want to get into a mad scramble if I can help it. Take. I can also just go. Ah, there's Knight C3 now. Okay, I'm just going to try to simplify the position here. Rookie. No, I just take. That's a bad move too. Okay, let's go here, I guess. Ah, that's bad too. What am I doing here? I suddenly got glitched. I'm going to just speed now. There we go. We got him. Good stuff. Good stuff. Good stuff. Good stuff. I didn't play it perfectly, but I did outplay Magnus for most of that game. Rook D1 was the winning move. Yeah. I mean, I misplayed it as we were at the end, but I outplayed him pretty much from the beginning till the middle game, or the end game. There we go. Big win. Okay, I get another win, but even though I'm tied for first, I'm probably not going to um... Okay, this makes a question. Because now that I won this game, do I recap the Olympiad or do I recap my Magnus game? Of course, the whole thing is rigged, you guys. I get fourth place. This is all rigged. Chess.com is terrible. They rig it again against me. Like, they completely rig this thing against me every time. Like, title Tuesday, I get screwed. Now I get screwed here. Like, it's completely, it's rigged AF. It's totally rigged. Totally rigged by Chess.com. Completely unacceptable. Horrible, horrible, horrible. Absolutely unacceptable. Unacceptable. So. I had the same score as first place, of course, but it's obviously rigged in favor of Magnus, like it always is, like everything in chess. So, all right. Early draws kill your tiebreaker. I mean, I'm obviously not being completely serious. You think I'm being serious? Yeah. How many black games did I have? I had a lot of black games, I think. But at the end, I got a white. Maybe, well, I don't know. But anyway, all right, you guys. So we get fourth place on Tiebreaker in spite of defeating Cactus Marlson. I am very proud of that last game, by the way. Like, I did outplay him for much of that game, I think. Let's go back to the start. Go back. Yeah, I was winning here. I was. I actually, I just outplayed him. I mean, obviously, Magnus played F6 in the Global Chess League against Javokir Sindarov, so he thought it would be funny and do it against me. But unfortunately for Magnus, some people, like streamers, they have a lot of free time because all they do is sit at home like lazy bums and make a recap once a day, and otherwise they live on Twitter. So because of that, Magnus thought that, like, Magnus didn't realize that the streamers, they actually have the time to study chess. Unlike the people like Sindarov who are playing too much chess. And unfortunately, Magnus paid a very heavy price for that. Yeah, what to say? What to say? I mean, obviously, I didn't play a perfect game, but it was... D5 was good, yeah. Yeah, I played a good game. Obviously, Queen H5 here was better, but it's a good game. It's a good game. Can't complain.