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yeah someone just linked me to it and um is it youtube or is it a twitch clip it's a it's a youtube one right one second let me just make sure i've got the right window on um wait one second okay there we go all right okay um someone sent the link it got crossed out but we'll watch it all right you guys um so so this game is really important so i'm going to go over it so uh we started off it was d4906 c4 e6 g3 d5 and now i played knight to f3 here he played uh d takes c4 bishop g2 c6a4 this was a line that he normally plays against the catalan of course david anton being from spain i felt very appropriate to play play the opening of the country against him so anyway bishop b4 bishop d2 a5.21 this is all pretty normally guys has been known before um david anton himself has had games with us he had a game with bishop before a before queen c4 against yvonne chaparinov in a previous event um over the board so i was familiar with this idea and i decided to play queen c4 here something a little bit different a little bit off the off the beaten path um playing the catalan against the madrid guy exactly why not um it's a knight d2 v6 i played queen to v3 here yes okay you guys relax relax we don't need to get we don't need to get into that anyway uh i played queen b3 um subscribed check andish's interview why don't levy and anna think supporters by his name while well you do while you're out um i think that that's because they're focused they're focused on the broadcast you guys but again big shout out i will say thank you to everybody who subbed during these events um during the commentary during the broadcast thank you so much so appreciate it thank you um all right so b6 the idea is if white tries to castle the king here there's bishop a6 hitting the queen and winning the pawn on e2 once the queen moves away you can't take the pawn on c6 because it's still guarded by a knight so therefore i play a very quiet move i move my queen out of the line of fire and i also i also try to put pressure on these very brutal pawns um their ideas with knight e5 to hit this one i can also do knight c4 to hit both both b6 and a5 here um so i play knight c4 here again trying to target the juicer if black takes it black has problems moving this knight because it's it's sort of glued to the pawn on c6 i'm going to go knight e5 and this catalan bishop on g2 is really going to cause black a lot of problems here um so david antongo's knight d7 i play knight e5 again the in the catalan defense what you really want to do is you want to create this uh this nest and then you want to use the sniper on g2 to target the pawn or the rook on a8 here so now roxie was played by david anton i played knight e6 and we played all these moves very quickly you guys so i was not very happy about this because i thought i was playing something a little bit unknown maybe i could surprise david anton and at this point this is where he started thinking for the first time and this is one thing that's really worth noting um which is that this this game i think really highlights the difference between classical chess the games which go can go up to six hours and rapid chess and blitz chats because in a classical game i can tell you what what happened here the the thought process would be much the same as this game as it was in the game for david anton i mean i don't know for sure that he thought this way but i'm pretty sure where um we both had 15 minutes we had both been moving instantly up to this moment actually we'd gain time so i think we're at 16 minutes um and so the first thought is okay so david anton played rookie so obviously this was still his preparation um that's the one that's the closest thing in chess that we have to a tell um so i played knight to d6 here and now david anton started thinking and i think what happened is this david anton before the game had clearly looked at knight takes c six weeks he had had played um he had prepared rook c8 so he looked at this 96 movement after takes points 498 black is completely fine this is very well known um and or not known but he clearly prepared this because based on the fact of how quickly a playbook seemed but the problem is when i played 96 here david anton started thinking and he ended up thinking for over 10 minutes and this is why i know that um he had not looked at this move because rook c he played so quickly that he couldn't have just played it on the fly um and so after 96 the problem is i think david anton probably first like wait it's like 96 i haven't looked at this move this is not my preparation so um this this looks like such an obvious move what can be wrong with whoa thank you to try becca castle for the 25 gifted subs thank you so much for rebecca castle hope everything is well back back home in new york and in tribeca so thank you for the 25 gifted subs appreciate it thank you so much um so yeah so i played 96 and david anton for a long time so the thought process was okay rook c7 looks like an obvious move just move the rook out of the lane it's not under attack from the knight then after knight takes c6 or queen is kind of trapped here the horses hold all the squares queen can't go to e8 or c8 can't go to e7 it can't go to b the only square that's open for the queen is a but after queen eight the queen gets fossilized you go knight e7 check hit the king open the diagonal and after king h8 you take the queen black takes back and you have the very beautiful knight takes f7 which is checkmate king has no squares it's completely boxed in the corner here and this is gg's um so it's a classic two horse checkmate um and so the thing is so david anton he probably thought for a minute he saw rook 6796 now the problem is if you don't see that after rook takes c6 bishop c6 knight b8 is a move where you hit the bushman knight at the same time um you're never going to go for this because you'll you'll see very quickly after queen c7 white just takes if you take the knight i just come here and i have an extra rook and i'm going to castle my king next move and if you take the bishop i go knight here and even though you get a diagonal it's not enough you're still down to rook for a bishop and it's completely lost so the problem um is that i think david anton at this moment in time he probably used he probably spent like the first minute and a half two minutes thinking about rook c7 knight c6 but the problem is i think when he didn't see the idea with knight b then he started thinking well wait a second there that works up is just a bad move i can't play it so you start thinking about it from this from the standpoint of candidate moves what other options do i have um which is why i think when he saw rook c7 he just he missed his knight v8 id he thought rook c7 knight c6 i'm just lost so then he ends up playing 95 after a 10 minute think and after playing 95 de5 the position is already close to lost as you guys can see it's plus 1.6 it's really really bad um for black now what i'm going to add you guys this is a rapid game so the clock is ticking he's getting low on time he feels a lot of pressure if this was a classical game when he blitzed out 15 moves at this at this point in time david anton you start the game two hours he would have like two hours and five minutes so or two hours in one minute whatever it is so he'd be able to you know he he'd have his temporary panic for like a minute or two but then he'd be able to relax get a coffee think for like 10 or 15 minutes and eventually he'd realize that knight takes e5 is bad and he'd figure out there's got to be a reason that rook c7 is fine and he would have he he would have um he would have been fine he would have found rook c7 i would say with i mean 95 certainty he would have found it but in a rapid game where the time is time is ticking down and you don't see the tactic right away you can't really go back and look at something again um so so yeah so that's the um that's that's what i would say in regards to it uh four four four fifty minute think ink well that's the difference between rap adjust blitz chats and classical chess and wrap it in blitz you kind of have time to think but you have to pick those moments and make the right decisions and very often times um your intuition is good but you're not always intuitively going to figure out what the what the move is and that's why blitz and raptor are so much more exciting totally obviously um but i'm giving you guys an example of the difference between classical chess and say rapid chess or blitz shots i did not fall asleep during the wait no but i knew that when david anton started thinking for longer and longer the less likely it became that he would play rook c7 um so he took the knight which is a big mistake i take he moves it rooks of course his knight's under attack but if he moves tonight he just loses a rook for a night and this is completely winning for um for white knights mistake today against carlson thanks uh so he played brook v8 and now i just take the free juicer again he can't go up here because i wouldn't take the knight because then he takes my knight but i can very simply just eat the free juicer on b6 and now the whole queen side starts to collapse for um for black here so that's why he plays rook b8 but now he loses this juicer again this is kind of the whole point of the theme is that black black flings his pawns ahead but he creates a lot of weaknesses um so here i take the pawn and now after knight d7 i go queen e3 i was very pleased that i found this move while he was thinking um because the logical move supports the pawn i i could have taken the knight too but it just makes a lot of sense and now he just loses his mind and takes again at this point david anton was already down to like five minutes it's a very unhappy coolest the great donated 4.20 cents great games today very fun to watch thank you appreciate it my microphone is not broken you guys my microphone is pretty good i think i think it's it's good obviously um i'm at home i'm not able to go to the facility and stream my usual setup um so there might be some issues with the microphone but it but at any rate it is what it is we have to make do with it um yeah the the microphone is good things all right um anyway as i was saying so i played queen e3 and now he takes the problem again and he can go here but after castles subscribed i went from move to 1300 indiana four months thank you i appreciate it thank you thank you to chase appreciate it thank you to coolix for the 420s well thank you to complex temple for the 11 and jan cooper for the two so basically the problem here is that black's just down a pawn like he's just down a clean pawn i have a i have a jumbo horse this great outpost on d6 where the knight can't be removed um and i'll just move the bishop and put my rooks in the center and the jumbo horse is going to roll through hi so instead david anton takes the funny thing is during the game because david anton was thinking a long time i'm using the same microphone that i use at work you guys so uh thank you thank you for that um seriously next person to say that is probably going to get banned um all right so queen c7 i go bishop f3 rook d8 i have to go here because otherwise i lose the knight um the only squares i can go to are knight c4 knight f7 now i saw knight f7 during the game but i thought like after rook f7 at the very least i'm up a juicer um but then the more i thought i saw that i could go rook d1 rook d7 and now i have a beautiful tactic with castles rook d8 trying to double stack if black tries to play a waiting move i don't know like this kind of move i just go rook here rick rook d1 and i get my triple to defend the horse and i'm just up a clean and clean horse here at this point all right so so queen bee rookie 2 and i i do my double stack and um it's just completely winning for me so he goes rook d8 but now i have a very very beautiful tactic here where i go uh where i go knight takes f7 and the problem is if black plays rook takes rook i take the queen for free on c7 if black takes the knight with the king we trade the queens but then he loses the rook at the end of the board and um and if black does what he does in the game which with david anthony queen takes queen i play rook takes rook and my rook holds the knight i'm forking the queen and the rook at the same time and um it's completely winning so he goes queen v2 i go 98 and now the game is basically over essentially i have two rooks and a knight for a lone queen and black's not even really getting this pawn combine that with the weak king which can easily be attacked and it's just game over so he plays bishop e2 we trade uh and i go r6 here h5 96 h4 knight g5 trying to create a checkmate pattern here knight holds the two squares king can't run out he goes g6 i just take check knight f4 and now i go to c1 and um that's game over black can't really stop the uh the ladder check made here with the rook coming down and checking the king if you go over to g7 it's the same thing i make a check obviously if you go back rank it's the classic ladder and if you go up to h6 i just eat the juicer on g6 and check makes the knight holds the rook and um prevents the king from going to h5 and the recoil to h7 square so it's game over so this was the first game of the day um against david anton very smooth win didn't really have to think a lot very little stress and it was a great way to start all right so let's move to the second game between myself and magnus um let me rotate this to my point of view so i wasn't really sure what magnus was going to do here uh in this opening game because we he had played a very very long game before against uh alexander grisham and um he wasn't able to win in this very long end game um i wanted to draw well i just want to be solid i thought that if i got a draw here i would i would definitely qualify great stream thanks for helping me get better at chess all right so there isn't much i really want to add there isn't much i really want to add to this game i'll just start from uh somewhere around here i thought i thought i played this game pretty well um in this middle game after i misplayed in the opening um yeah i blundered to attack but i felt that in the opening i kind of i didn't remember how how to make the draw right off so i kind of drifted a little and i was very happy with the way that i played this middle game because as you can see um for much of this middle game it's giving white an advantage i thought the way that i played um was very good h5 a good move to saab g4 knight d3 bishop c8 and everything i thought was good here maybe here i should have just taken the pawn and after takes knight d6 again i was worried about an a6 lever with rook c6 here um removing the pawn and it just it feels a little bit unpleasant computer obviously doesn't care at all um but as a human it looks a little bit unhappy you you feel a little bit iffy so basically this game was completely fine i was very happy with my play um and now here i played b5 which i think is insane if i go rook c8 here i think this should just be a pretty routine draw but i did b5 which i think i think was still okay now he did this he takes and this is where unfortunately i started donating 20 cents fellow belgians tune in tomorrow to watch the belgian blunder dominate at 3pm also have a good one mark kw thank you um but the problem was at this point and this is this is why i kind of i it went wrong is um first of all i saw a6 rook b5 takes a6 originally i thought i could play a6 but i saw this in a split segment it's like it must be bad although although i'll oh this this is just a draw hmm okay i'm bad at chess uh so i saw a6 but i thought rookie five is winning so then then i want to go bishop c4 um now the problem is i played bishop c4 too quickly and the reason that this was bad is i should just go on bishop c6 here and after bishop c6 we're going to be trading bishops into a um intent end game which will be rook and pawns should be a pretty routine draw very very limited danger but the problem is when i played bishop c4 he went rook b7 i had already calculated this in my head that i just go a6 and i bring the king over and i'm just completely fine but the problem was at this point i saw rook c7 and i kind of panicked so the this sort of set the trend the wrong way because rookie is still completely fine it should be a draw but mentally i was already a little bit shaken because i had blundered this obvious tactic so i ended up in this end game that i didn't really want to be in um and now i went here and i should have just played bishop d5 and i i'm guessing that i end up down upon here somehow probably takes takes some a6 and probably check here and this and i guess i can go here and here and this should be a draw i actually just check here and king f4 but again i at this point i was already a little bit shaken uh because of what i had overlooked which you could call it nerves whatever i think it was it was nerves i it wasn't nerves or just like i sort of like oh man i just blundered attacked i better better double look and be very careful um his eating during the game i actually didn't see him eating uh one thing that i will say you guys as far as these games go is you have teamviewer with the window um where you can see your opponent but generally speaking you you have to toggle you can't have it like open in the background so because you have to toggle like you lose time when you do that so every so often i do pop it open to look but i wasn't looking consistently throughout the game um so now here i played a check which is probably not best and he went here and this is where i made the faithful blunder i basically spent i think a minute and a half trying to figure out which square i want to go with the bishop because both squares look logical um and the problem is when i went bishop when i was considering bishop d5 i thought here c4 in my pawn is in time so like a6 c3 a7 i can just take and um and this this should be a draw or i mean you see it it is a draw so this is originally what i saw so when i when i calculated that out to being a draw then i spent a little time looking like rook c5 and i figured i mean this has to be a draw with the two connected outside pawn and so then i'm like okay so bishop d5 is fine so what about bishop d3 but then i saw bishop d3 and i thought well he goes rook c6 check and when i go back he can still take the pawn and he hits he hits the pawn on g5 and maybe by virtue of that the pawn on h4 as well um so uh so basically uh actually you guys just to be clear no it's not teamviewer it's microsoft teams for video for the screen share they use zoom so for chat and chat and um for for the chat when the arbors need to communicate something and um and for the screenshot they use zoom for the actual video they use microsoft teams that that's that's how they do it everybody um all right so as i was saying i basically was like okay well both moves look fine but then i'm like okay bishop d3 allows a check so then i can just go here and i stop the check and i force an end game anyway um unfortunately after rook d7 king six or d8 i end up losing this end game by one tempo so i go c4 a6 c3 and unfortunately after d5 um i end up losing by one tempo because after takes here here a7 c2 white queens um white makes a queen and it's a check on the king before i can before i queen and hit the king on g1 so this obviously was very disappointing i was not happy about this um but again because i had won that first game against david anton i'd put myself in a good position where even though i lost this game i still had um i still had good chances all right so let's move on to the third game which was against mr anish geary so in this third and final game of the day the 11th round i knew my situation i felt that if i lost the game i probably qualified but i finished like seventh or eighth so i'm probably in no matter what but again you don't really want to be in a situation where you're where you like you need certain other results to go right at the same time i also knew that anish had to win the game to qualify now apparently i need to only need to be to draw because um because lavonna ronin lost his game against david anton guillar and uh maxine vascular beat alexander grisham so in retrospect the draw was good enough for anish but before the game and when you look at those pairings very hard to believe that maxine will beat grishock with black and lavon will lose white as well all right so e4 c5 i knew anish would play this again without getting too specific about the game there are a lot of other openings on each could play but it's all about picking an opening that keeps the most pieces on the board okay so we i played g3 very solid again i i fianchito the bishop to g2 here on the diagonal he goes knight c6 bishop g2 knight of 63 t5 knight d2 and we actually end up transposing into a king's indian attack now this this setup can come out of many different different orders um but it is something that bobby fischer really like to play a lot uh in the old days uh do you have a tsm jersey or similar you'd be allowed to wear during turn i do um but the thing is they try to say you need to be more formal about it so i'm i'm just being more formal um in general that's what i would say so anyway i castle he castles i play rookie one h6 and now i play c3 and each goes b5 again all the pieces are on the board but one thing that i would note is probably if this was just a regular blitz game i would go e5 knight t7 knight f1 and then you play h4 knight h2 knight g4 with bishop f4 queen detune you try to sack on sack on h6 but again this was a situation where i assumed i'm in if i lose even if i lose the game but you don't really want to put yourself in that situation so i thought you know what let's be practical let's open up the position try to simplify it so that we make it so it's easier to control and it's more likely that it will be a draw and there won't be double edge counter play so i take knight d5 i play a4 try to again rip open the queen side here black and not play a6 to keep the pawns intact because after takes you can't take the pawn because you would lose the rook on ea8 and so on each goes b4 here again also you can't go push basics either because then i take and i go to c4 and your bishop and i get forked um so b4 i go c4 again i want to open up the diagonal for this long bishop here knight c7 knight b3 great square for the horse it targets the pawn on c5 it also supports a push in the center to open up the diagonal for this bishop so he goes bishop b7 i play here again double attack on the pawn on each plays knight a6 to hold the glue and now i go to d4 trying again to rip open the center part of the board and activate my bishop so here on each took the pawn i took back he played queen c8 and now here i felt that i played a move that was not ideal i played queen e2 and i played this after quite a quite a long thing and as you see the evaluation shoots way down here um did i consider queen after someone asked i thought after knight d4 queen b7 knight b3 i was just losing um i don't know oh i have queen e7 oh am i just bad at wait am i sorry about that am i just bad at chess ah he can take first i actually didn't really calculate this knight b3 and i take yeah and black's still better black well i mean i have two two ops here uh combined with with some nice diagonals but it's probably better for black um but i've only looked very briefly and then i saw queenie two and i thought you know what if i get this bishop here it's really good this is like classic wooden shield the bishop on d4 holds everything here he trades he goes here i want queen f3 again i wanted to cut the diagonal so there are no checks against my king like queen b7 is not an idea queen c6 isn't an idea and just my bishop on d4 it's just it's awesome here it just holds everything so so now on each place queen takes pawn which is a big mistake by the way he should not have done this but he played it fast i think at this point anish felt you know what i'm worse in this game i have to try to win so i need to create counter play um objectively i think he probably should have played bishop c5 or knight c5 tried to make a draw but instead he he took and afterwards in one 25 trade rook c6 this knight is very sad the bishop dominates at the rook dominates it has no way to jump into the game it really wants to go to the square on c5 or the square on c7 and so he goes knight b8 but now afterwards c8 he has to block again if he goes king h7 i think i can just go rook c1 and this this knight and this rook in the corner are really really sad it's very very sad here um xqc had a similar bishop in his outro chess game steven the wooden shield comes directly from the man the myth the legend uh felix long gel himself so yeah it's from him to start with uh it's a rook the eight i play rook c1 again i want to trade where am i russia i'm uh i'm in california but i'm not at the um i'm not at the tsm facility because again they they they shut it down for the near future um okay so he goes knight d7 we trade i go rook c7 rook d8 again black has to save either the knight or the bishop um so i take the pawn this by the way was a terrible move i should just take with the bishop and basically it's bye bye birdie here because black can try bishop f6 but i just go a5 a6 and um after bishop e5 rp7 i'm gonna move the bishop push the pawn and make a queen at the end of the board it's just a very easy very smooth win um instead i did this now after bishop f6 is still winning but it's not it's not as clear-cut as it could have been so i play a5 we trade i go 86 again the horse doesn't matter if you can get a pawn to the end of the board the eighth rank it becomes it becomes a queen and you win the game so it takes i go check and now a7 again i just i'm gonna move the rook and make a check if black moves the king i just move my rook and make a queen and when anish goes 966 he would love to take the spawn next move but i'm just in time because i go here i make the check on the king and then the pawn promotes and becomes a queen so knight d8 i go queen a7 55 queen b6 and we we reached this critical moment right here and this is as i was talking about earlier when i was on with levi and anna this is a critical moment where i think um if anish had been able to see the other games if he had been able to see lavon's position and maxine's position i think he would have gotten a second win second wind and he would have really buckled down and tried tried to make a draw here but the problem is he could only play his own game and only only this one game that we're playing and so he still was in the mode that he thought he had to win the game um now i think about the support and countless coordinated 4 and 20 cents tell anish he better get the paypal payment in on time next tournament thank you for the 420 dunk tank um so he should have gone f6 and e5 and i i don't know maybe this is still winning for white long term but he would have i think he would have been able to find he would have been able to buckle down and get that get that inspiration that motivation if he had seen the other positions because in the game he felt he had to win understandably so and so he trades he goes here and now i go here and b4 and the problem is is now once i break the once once he can't defend this square the queen of the pawn are going to dominate the rook in the knight and i'm just going to push the pawn down the board like i did with the a pawn by the way and um it's it's just awesome it should just be winning for white here so now it plays rook d4 i go b5 or g4 king f1 queen c6 again important to pin the knight to the king so i can keep pushing the pawn up the board okay so king g5 i go b6 here um knight f4 last last gasp for on each trying to create a checkmate here with rook b1 because the knight holds the two escape squares so i just quietly scoot the king into the corner and i basically say you know what i'm gonna make a second queen with this pawn and you're not going to be able to stop it even if you win this pawn on f2 um but it's just game over same mate yeah totally circuit one king h2 knight e6 and now i go queen e4 important move because this is all about geometry the king is in the open so black black takes upon a b6 i go queen here and i check the king but i also hit the rook and i win the rook so anish goes here i push the pawn now on each blunders he had very little time he plays knight v8 again position is close loss if if black tries like king f6 here i just go queen c6 and queen c8 and again the knight can't get back in time to sacrifice itself so i make a second queen and anish kush can struggle on here but realistically a queen is better than a knight in three pawns nine is better than six um and it's just winning so anyway b7 knight eight now i go b8 and by the way you guys since i didn't have auto promote to queen on i i actually under promoted to a rook i maybe i shouldn't have done that but um but i did and um and here on each resign because after rook takes rook i take the pawn and again to check on the king and i win the rook on b8 here and um and that's ggs so i won this final game against anish guaranteed my spot in in the um naughty promotion yeah guaranteed my spot in the in the quarterfinals where i will be playing i believe against lavon aronian tomorrow i believe it is the best of two if i'm not mistaken let me make sure on that um let me make sure yeah okay so it's best of two so yeah so i play i play lavon tomorrow starting again at 6 00 am i believe we play a four game match chess 24 was mad at that which i was 24 got mad that i made a rook okay okay anyway um yeah good one good one alright so i won the game i finished third i believe if i win against levon i play wesley and then potentially in the final i play against magnus at any rate um it's pretty good we finish the way i wanted to making the top date which is the only thing that matters no i wasn't doing a trigger on each um so that's that so i have a link to the um someone have a link to the anish to um to anish just if someone has a link um did somebody have a link yeah someone someone just linked me to it and um is it youtube or is it a twitch clip it's a it's a youtube one right one second let me just make sure i've got the right window on um wait one second okay there we go all right okay um someone sent the link it got crossed out but we'll watch it sort of wanna you don't wanna give away all your good openings now in this tournament heading into the candidate sometime in 2021 have you tried to experiment a little bit so far in this tournament uh well i've been experimenting for for a while now but uh i mean i have uh not yet a good idea of what i will play in the candidate so i mean i have an idea but now i have many ideas that i can use and we'll see what happens in the actual candidates in terms of opening subscribe thank you and we are actually also joined now by a niche erie two very different destinies here in in their things monsters maximum just about making it to the quarter finals anish unfortunately we're not going to see you play quarterfinals how are you after that final game yeah no i didn't expect maxim will make it actually i mean i also i don't even know how he finished against rajava but i think he was lost from the opening there so i thought he was doing very badly but he mounted a great comeback and i'm i'm quite concerned i think maybe draw would have been also good for me in the last round then that didn't occur to me at all i was sure i'm in the master situation so yeah i i didn't really get anywhere the opening went really badly um and i want to ask both of you because yesterday okay we had 21 out of 24 games ending in draws how is the mentality different going into to today when you know both of you and many players had to start winning i'll start with you maxim um yeah honestly i just wanted to play chess from the start and in the first two days i mean the results were not so great but i had lots of opportunities so i mean to be honest that played so so badly so like i had fighting games at least because while anish was in a must win against me and then i was white and some i don't know how but i got chances against sasha but yeah my level of play was terrible so i need to purchase that starting tomorrow how about you and age we've been so entertained with seeing you maybe more than we used to seeing you really fight for for wins in this tournament um no actually yeah i was in a tough spot um i think the format is not very good i mean first you make eight players qualify for 12 spots and then you complain every day about draws from players i mean it's either one or the other and for me i wasn't i was not in a luxury position of playing it safe so i had to go a lot today even in the last round with the black pieces as well so yeah i was uh i had to fight for my life but unfortunately it didn't really work out i'm i think the opening in the last game was went really badly and position i got was very very bad actually if i would have had a controlled game then maybe even um even a draw would have been enough i had to encounter tie breaks but i've beaten maximum and also anton so maybe um maybe i would have would have made it even i don't know i have to see but uh anyway yeah i mean i i was not one of the people who who could afford to just sit and wait uh but i in the other hand it's quite impressive for example wesley's uh wesley's playing these events i mean it's so it's so incredibly good and it's it's as though you either just make a draw with him from the get-go or if you don't you get punished severely so yeah he managed to play very very good event um again and i mean such such results are inspiring i mean mostly you know if you if you play it safe in too many games then you start feeling bad about yourself and then playing badly eventually but some players in particular in particular wesley and also hikaru they don't feel bad at all and you know if they play for a draw they make it if they perform what are you doing and well yes david yeah i mean commiseration commiserations um anish we we were greatly entertained by your games today i just wanted to ask about your new year's resolutions for 2021 and your goals and chess wow i didn't think of it like that very strong it's a good moment to think about it and the only good thing about being knocked out here that i have a little more time now to prepare for my next tournament to think about life in general and yeah i mean i'm i need to calm down a bit after today's games um other than that you know it's always the same i'm professional chess player i focus on my my chest so much and when it comes to new year's resolutions it's also usually something to do with chess i just try to improve my game and can get better every time yeah hopefully hopefully especially i'm looking forward to my next tournament it's going to be a hopefully vikings a tournament it's a live live event in in the netherlands um you know it's a tough time to host an event but uh well it's something different uh you know we are used now to playing online which is tremendous events that you guys are hosting here but uh yeah i'm looking forward also to see how the over the board event will pan out yeah and uh how much holiday do you give yourself after an event such as this to both of you well it depends uh how much time i get between uh one event and the other one so you don't go like for me i go give myself one day off or maybe two days off you don't you you just uh if i make it to the final i will have to go to bike and see uh very soon after because of the quarantine there so we'll see how that goes but anyway like if i have a week off of course i will generally take a few days off before yeah i think maxima is pretty annoyed here i agree i think i think it's very annoyed lots of things i can do in between the chess but no time for you to take a break now uh maxine because tomorrow quarterfinals start and you will face wesley so how will you make sure that he just doesn't go for those super quick draws in the beginning there oh well i don't know exactly i just need to you know we focus on my chest play play better be in better shape because yeah that was in actual awful shape and doing everything so you know i'll take the gifts of qualifying but i know that i cannot afford to play like this against western under your school you're smiling and each subscribe the problem is not the draws the problem is the losses you have it all wrong i said it okay that's it that's it that's it well well anish can we have your expert tip for uh the air things monsters who do you think will do the best here yeah it's uh all these players are so good i mean magnus and wesley magus and hikari were always known to be good and this year wesley got uh i mean lately wesley got a lot more opportunities he didn't get too many invites in the first tour but now the second one he got and he's showing great play i mean these three guys i think are head and shoulders above i mean no offense to maximo is also a great player at least very high quality chess as well all three of them and yeah these three are favorites oh my god but uh yeah everybody qualified and also everybody who was invited are very good and the maxim of course if he finds his form as a tremendous player also the rajabov can be very very um robust and uh strong and you know in these close matches um he might also do very well so we'll see we'll see all right anish one final question we know that you've recently released a video course for chessable on the night off and we've discovered it's kaya's favorite opening any tips for anyone out there um on learning the opening it's not only kaia's favorite not only kai's favorite opening it's uh yeah it's a it's a great opening that many people uh like and play because it's a very fighting opening and offers you lots of chances and maxim actually played it all his life now that's now that finally my course is out and he can finally learn to play neither the right way essentially he switched he switched to this other opening called the classical silence which is of course much worse but uh yeah well um i mean i think um yeah i'm not sure i think some of the variations are going to be uh a little too deep for for kaya because you know it's also it's also a repair that i try to um they might be also a bit too deep for me thank you maxim but in general yeah i try to make it something that can be also valid for players of a high level so yeah yeah but it but it's it's fun i'm sure you'll enjoy it thank you so much now both of you thank you so much anish for for joining us and we wish you good luck in the next tournament and maxine we wish you good luck when the coach violence starts tomorrow thank you so much both of you you
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