gigachad
Ian blew it
tied up again, what a match
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What a shitshow
it's gotta be rigged bro like how
Explain in CS Terms
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nuke, niko, heaven, deagle
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fak
im losing my touch
6 rounds in a row
he went heaven with a deagle and lost the major
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its not over tho?
G2 lost to faze on full eco at 14-14 in major semi final
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Unfortunate
Karrigan+xyp9x against kennys in cobble but its in major grand final map 2 (you are up 1-0) and score is 15-14 for you. Nepo is karrigan.
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ian wins pistol, then loses force, then wins gun round, then loses force, then wins gun round, then loses force, then wins gun round, then loses gun round, then wins gun round, then loses force, then wins gun round then loses full eco
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He already looks like an adult baby with his Goofy ahh jaw no way he acts like baby with 190 ICQ
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Btw huge respect for Hans, never saw LoL player evolve into GM
And that W against Aronian is still giving me chills
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is he a lol player? didnt know that
so Ian is an ex-professional dota player
do we have cs GMs?
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I think that karrigan would make for a good chess player.
blitz from themongolz (ex-IHC) is International Master or something like that
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true, totally forgot
Hans Niemann is the most cringe piece of shit cheater ever. Have you seen this?
youtu.be/-sfb6o1oWBU
Bruh I bet I could analyze it better than he did… and this guy supposedly plays 100% accuracy games? “Uhhh what does the engine say?”. Yeah right. Also “chess speaks for itself” had me rolling. Fuck this guy, he cheated for sure
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Unfortunately he is not a raw genius like Fisher, just chess genius
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He completed all tasks in Chess and waiting for Chess 2 like a boss, wdym by "not a raw genius"?
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I think he needs to go checkmates
Shouldve attended then lol
just tuning in into the stream, which move was it?
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From move 27. 27.Qxc4 - Rag8 (miss) 28. Qc6 (blunder) - bb8 (blunder) 29. Qb7 (miss) -Rh6 (miss) 30. be4 - Rf8 (miss) ..... and at move 34, after ding went Re2 (bar says its +0.4), Nepo went f5 and stokfish said +9.7.
Dude is crying rn
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tactical nap
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Hmm, why does Ian deserve it more?
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At least because Ding is in this match in the first place because of Magnus's decision to abstain from defending his title
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I'm not sure I agree that that means Ian deserves it more. If that was true they should have just given him the title by forfeit
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They should've, but this would be the most pathetic world championship in history, I can't think of any player that would be ok with having the Crown by simply winning the Candidates tournament
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Indeed. It's almost like what they did was make Ian world champ, hold another candidates tournament with all the players that aren't Ian and let the best one play against him, but without pronouncing him actually champ and without going through actually hosting the tournament again.
I'd say it's pretty reasonable.
Nah, if you are indeed better prove it, no default wins. If you choke or if you can't bring your A game against the supposedly best next guy, then you don't desearve to be the champ in the first place.
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But he got pretty wrecked by magnus last time. Ding has also been grinding, he wouldn't be here otherwise
woo ding is back
loving the tour so far
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he is chilling
I wanted it to be even again but seems like nepo is not only playing for a win but also for staying in russia with family and friends... Cz i dont want to know what ideas russian government will have if nepo doesnt become world champion since he is in opposition to war and the government and has openly adressed it
iBUYPOWER Nepomniachtchi
ngl he looks like ENCE coach SAW
THIS IS EPIC
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I mean, there isn't much of a story.
When Magnus beat Ian last time (2021), he basically said that he'd only defend his title if the match was against Firouzja (I think, I'm not sure if it was actually him).
Last year we had the Candidates (the tournament that decides who's playing against the current world champion for the title) and the winner was Nepo again, so it would basically be a rematch.
After some days Carlsen said that he wouldn't be defending his title because of lack of motivation and etc. etc. So now the match had to be between Ian and DIng Liren (who finished second on the Candidates).
And I 100% understand Magnus Carlsen in this situation, his last match against Nepo was really lopsided. The dude played perfectly basically every single game. I'm pretty sure that one of their draws was at the time the most accurate game ever played in a world chess championship match. He won a round after almost 150 moves from what I remember.
He's on another level compared to every single chess player alive right now.
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He is playing the Norway Chess tournament next month
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I think they meant like big tournaments
carlsen is wcc in our hearts
Bro said there isn't much of a story and dropped a three-volume text below
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Personally I don't think so. My feeling is that Magnus is much more likely to take a draw like position and grind it out until he wins whereas these guys are going for more complicated double edged positions. It feels stylistically different rather than bad. Most of the mistakes have come in time pressure
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"Most of the mistakes have come in time pressure"
My dude, Ian had 40 minutes on the clock yesterday and made 3 or 4 bad moves in a row almost instantly.
And I don't really agree with that draw thing, let's not forget that the longest decisive match in a world chess championship is a victory by Magnus over Ian the last time they played.
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Yes, that's exactly what I'm saying though. Magnus grinds down his oppponents and wins in very long games. Often those games look like they are draw and other players might have given up.
Yes, yesterday was Ian being Ian I suppose. But in general I don't think that's the way it's gone down this match. Generally it has seemed like the positions have been very complicated and it's burnt a lot of their clocks
i hope ian wins
ding is cringe chinese bot
nepo is a crybaby, i'm supporting DING
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chess master
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nepo was 6:5 up and played bad, so 6:6 now
first to 7.5 wins
draw is most common result on high level play...3 draws would have secured him world chess champion title (plus high prize pool even; I think 2 million dollar, 60:40 split)
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chess is basically same thing than mastering some hard foreign language
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i can also talk swedish for couple of sentences :DD
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All the previous challengers slowly ground down his mental resolve. It's a team victory really :)
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yes because zywoo dominates his sport without doubt for >10 years now
(not)
Bruh, this game was a fucking joke. These two are contenders for WC and it was crystal clear that at one point in the game both were COMPLETELY clueless on what to do. If I wanted to see 1900 Elo games, I would watch a different game. I get chess is fucking hard, but those guys are supposed to be the best.
Either Magnus is just so far ahead of everyone, including the supposed top 2 and top 3, or this shit is scripted. Like... Ian has +3 advantage, comes back to the board, *instantly* plays a move without thinking, and it's a blunder.
??? Something's weird.
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havve you never over rationalized an easy situation and did something wrong cause "it cant be that easy"?
people commit far more mistakes if they are trying to win though. Magnus won a lot of his games against Nepo by him straight blundering after he was tilt after the legendary game 6.
Now here the contestants are about on the same level (Ding slightly higher peak and better consistency though). But when you play for a win you really need to take more risks compared to when you try to play for a draw. A lot of the positions played from the outside feel far more unclear than the ones that were played in Nepo-Magnus. Additionally Ding has a very chaotic second in Rapport who really embraces the chaotic risky playstyle, trying to catch people off-guard rather than playing very precise.
Also people are backseat-gaming hard here: In most of the unclear positions with chances for both parties you need to consider a lot of deep and complicated lines; also Ding is regularly pulling out very technical positional moves that are incomprehensible to the two commenting GMs (including Caruana).
Calling this a 1900 match is risible imho.
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I was really upset when I made that comment, but even looking back, it's still so ridiculous. There shouldn't be such a huge contrast between the 99% overall match accuracy that was 2021 Magnus Carlsen's WC play and these two...
Also, how did Ian literally have 100% accuracy up until that rook move, playing engine moves every time, which simply has to show that he knew his position and the lines of it, that he was winning and how to proceed, and suddenly just... blunders. Like... either you know you're winning or you don't, or at the very least you make a smaller position worsening move, not all the crap he did. Ding also showed he didn't have a clue and was literally gifted the win with that SUPER OBVIOUS second blunder.
Nah, you know what, I stand by what I said. That game was just ugly chess, and neither of those two deserve the title.
+1 if white wants to draw he can do it 99,9% of the time at high level if players are equal
Oh, and also - Magnus was completely right. He bailed out because it's pointless to go through so much prep and hard work, and then you go to the WC, and your opponent just blunders like an idiot, invalidating all his hard work.
No point in tryharding when nobody gives you reason to tryhard.
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That's not really been the case in the majority of his world championship matches tbh
He will still win. Also 2018 Caruana would smoke either of these guys. The quality decline is insane.
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Magnus Carlsens son
What is there to elaborate? The blunder spoke for itself.
biggest choker of all time
f5 blunder, ding plays the most natural move of all time and he just immediately realizes he is lost. I don't think I've seen this in classical before.
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