Just an amazing game if chess. Levon is so impressive in his poise and approach. So sad what’s happened in his personal life in the last few years. I have nothing but admiration for the man.
The title says Aronian "crushes" Nakamura, and it certainly looks like it at times, for example, when Aronian traps Nakamura's queen. But, in fact, it is amazing how Nakamura manages to keep almost even material after losing the queen... and how nearly he comes several times to drawing or even winning. That said, Aronian played a fantastic game and deserved to win. Moral of the story: CZcams titles. Lol.
John Rain McManus Yeah, it's exaggerated but I think the term "crush" is referred to the fact that Aronian won the game with tactics: 17. Rxd6! at 1:55, clearly Nakamura misses that, he looks crushed :)
+Richard Cochrane It's Nakamura who insist on playing on so long that when he eventualy resigns, he looks like a fool. Just looks at the Carlsen game (where he is completely crushed btw). But it's blitz - as long as there are pieces on the board, the opponent can always blunder under time pressure, so one can't blame him
+John Rain McManus if that isn't outplaying or crushing a GM I don't know what it is man. From the first minute Nakamura is on the back foot. He doesn't look very happy either, shaking his head from losing de Dpawn, then the queen and finally the game when Aronian treated him like a puppet in the end game. Sorry, but DO NOT LIE. Nakamura was clearly humiliated here. I think he should have resigned earlier in the game. Playing till the end made him look even more ridiculous. An ego test I guess. LOL
there was a q&a at washington university that nakamura said that he doesn't really believe that there is a poker face in chess, only bluffs by unusual opening moves with confidence to throw off the opponent.
I dont really think it matters at that level.Yes, at the amateur level facial expressions can shift games just by an amateur player looking for and finding something they didnt see previously because they noticed a shift in their opponent's facial expression, but at the top GM level players will see something they missed instantly after making a bad move so it doesnt matter much.
Aronian's Rxd6! refuted Naka's ambitious but rather careless opening play. If Qxd6 then Be5! and white regains the rook in b8, beautiful, with a pawn plus in the center, a much more solid position and black's aggressive prospects vanished in the night. Later in the game comes white's Ng4! winning black's queen (she has no square to go!), another crushing blow. In the resulting position white's two minor pieces prove better than black's rook but even then there are practical problems which Aronian works out in time pressure, amazing game by two amazing players.
9:06 Great game, I like how cool Aronian is playing and moving, he is in complete control , and here I like how he placed all his pieces on black squares, game is almost over, Excellent from both Nakamura and Aronian !!
fighting spirit by Naka!! What a legendary blitz player. Of course needless to say that he also is a top pro at std time controls, but he will forever be remembered for his out of the ordinary feeling for blitz, akin to the ways of the blitz god Alexander the Great Sasha Grischuk!
It seems exchanging the rook was not an issue ..The reason Naka was so tensed and took nearly 1 min to think on Rxd6 because there are more associated problems .After Rxd6 Qxd6 Be5 if Qe7 say then 1. Rook on b8 is falling with a loss of central pawn..2. pawn on c5 is falling followed by pawn on b4 (.especially after Bxa7 Qxa7..) which is major setback..since entire queeside pawns are wiped out...Hence Naka didnt take with the queen and played Bb7 so than rook on b8 can come on c8 to protect the c5 pawn...which he later did.
Ok if you were wondering I'm pretty sure these are the dgt boards and they use these because they can keep record and monitor where the pieces move with it
It's a move called En Passant. If your opponent moves a pawn 2 spaces from their second rank and it lands beside one of your pawns, on the next turn only you can move behind that opponent pawn with your adjacent pawn and the enemy pawn will be captured.
@MrRazorblade999 Two clocks in one housing. Each has the same number of minutes and count down to 0. Black starts Whites clock by pushing the button on his side. That starts White's clock running and will continue to run while he is thinking about his move. After White completes his move he pushes the button on his side and it stops his clock from running and starts Black's clock. And so they repeat until the game is won or drawn or someone's clock runs down to 0, which is a time forfeit (loss).
it's called en passant. When a pawn moves two scares forward, an opponent pawn is allowed to capture it as if it only moved one square. But only in the immediate following move.
And the move at 1:25 is called "En Passant" its a 1 turn only rule where you can take a pawn that has just moved 2 ranks on its first move if you are beside it, but if they do not choose to take en passant then the move is no longer legal after the turn is over.
@2668860 It's an "en passant" capture, which means "in passing" in English. It's one of the three special rules of chess. It can only be done with pawns when one is moved out two spaces, another can capture by capturing its path.
very serious, quiet whispers set the mood. Hikaru blunders at Qe7 because it fails to address the threat of Rxd6. If the queen retakes, Be5 skewers the queen and rook. Not only does Hikaru lose a pawn but his center is destroyed. Hikaru making blunders like this are extremely rare, even in blitz games.
@amjwUK its a move called En passant. usually the will say it. its a french word and it allows you to make that move. and take the opponents piece but you have to do it right away you cant wait a while then do it.
18. Be5 would pin the queen to the rook. After the queen moves, 19. Bxb8 would capture the rook and black has no way to recapture because the queen can't re-position itself to protect the rook without hanging itself in the process to either the bishop on e5 or knight on a4. Black would be down a rook in exchange for a pawn.
Position at 7:41 (right after queens come off) is a dead draw according to chess engines. Naka just messed up the endgame when there was severe time pressure. Words like "crushes" and "decisive" are definitely an exaggeration.
You are right and wrong. He is from Baku, Baku is now a city in Azerbaijan, Whe he was born was URSS moved to Moskow later and now lives in the States... so i dont think he is so much of a Azerbaijan citizen.
1. Rd8 Qxd6 2. Be5 Qe7 3. Bxb8 Nb5. 4. Qc4 Bd7 5. Be5 Nd5 6.Qc5 Kf7. This is my engine's line however before capturing the rook my engine gives +8.52 and it thinks that capture that rook is the best way to continue, but with that white's advantage i think it's impossible to even draw with this position as black pieces. Sorry for my english ;d
Why doesn't Nakamura just capture the rook on d6 with his queen? (minute 2:00 to 3:30) If he captures it and Aronian moves his bishop on b2 tot e5, Nakamura can just move his queen back to e8 then if Aronian captures Rb8, black will recapture the bishop with the queen. This way Nakamura has an advantage of one piece, or am I mistaken...? Thanks!
There is a bisschop on C8 ! The whole position would collapse after taking on d6. That is why nakamura chose to play Bb7. Still black is in a bad position. Kudos for the play he still was able to get. This was exciting play by both players.
Did you watch that last 10 seconds ? That was the definition of an ass-whuping in Chess. Aronian had total poise under pressure. Nakamura was going crazy. Not that you can even follow what they're doing, they're moving so fast. But then these are two top ranked grandmasters. Aronian was also Fischer Random Chess champ until Nakamura beat him last year. Bobby Fischer used to give his less than grandmaster opponents 5 minutes & take only 30 seconds for himself.
if a player castles touching the king first, this is quite unambiguous. If he touches the rook first (and touching BOTH at the same time is taking a risk) then the arbiter can insist it was a room move alone and not allow castling.
The bishop can not be captured by the queen in any way, or another piece. situation is simply almost two pawns up for aronian at this point, in material and structure.
Aronians handling - in time trouble - of Nakamura's passed b-pawn is really impressive. I'd have lost that 9 times out of 10. I think even the otherwise arrogant Nakamura would admit to getting out-classed in this game.
the mysterious rook sack early is met by Be5 to win the exchange and then another pawn drops, so it's two pawns for the bishop as well as some initiative :)
If you take a look at 7:01: Naka was so hypnotized by his two knights in the opponents territory that he was totally blind for his queen beeing trapped on f6:-) Its good to see that even GMs are humans :-)
Valera Osipov Oh thanks. It took me about an hour to understand what you meant by Be5 and then I realized that there is that Rook behind it. Anyway maybe they would exchange rook with rook or something. It's mindblowing how they can make such decisions in an instant when it takes me an hour to figure out.
***** ...(Rd6 Qd6?) (Be5 Qe7) (Bb8 ...) Losing the rook as well. That also took black time to figure out, it took him more than a minute to make a move, and he didn't come up with any better than (...Bb7) to defend that rook with another rook. Still, Aronian could have attacked that rook with (Be5...) but decided to go a more safe way (Rd6-d1). All in all there weren't much for black to do, as the position for the time was already bad.
@amjwUK it only works when a player brings his pawn up two squares and you have a pawn side by side with it. it only works the move right after he brings the pawn up tho. as they said its call en passant
I wouldn't really call this a crush, but I think it's clear that Nakamura missed Rxd6 which at their level is probably a relatively bad mistake. Aronian displayed pretty masterful technique to win with the minor pieces against the rook and passed pawn.
@keithbcook No. In Blitz you are allowed to use both hands to castle and to promote, as long as you show a clear intention of doing so. The video clear shows that it was intention, as he moved his king two squares.
Did anyone see the tactics when Aronian played Rxd6? It looks like that rook is hung three ways to Sunday. You can tell the move baffled Nakamura, he took a full minute to think about it (rare enough for him on its own) and then decided not to take, I still can't see what Aronian was up to
ricky shabongo Qxg6 is met with Be5 pinning the queen and the rook and the queen doesnt have a square where she can go to protect nakas hanging rook on b8, so overall its just a win of a central pawn, i dont think he took because aronian would of had some tempos on the queen and that knight on a7 is o so very bad and attacked and not defended.
i have seen this game a couple of times.. i think that levon saw him giving thequeen back but that wasn't an issue since for a top gm i don't think coordinating three minor pieces when they are near and outplaying a rook and a minor piece is difficult even in blitz.. secondly.. although ng4 was the game clincher, it was actually f4 that was very hard to find.. but the logic is simple... without f4 the Queen goes to g5 but f4 stops it... to see that and loose an exchange on account of the queen that you are gonna win requires tremendous acumen... kudos levon... show your class in the candidates
If QxR, Be5 is a skewer tactic that would win the rook back as there is no way for the queen to simultaneously get out of the way and defend the rook on b8. The night on a4 covers b6.
As an American I'm proud that Naka is fighting hard for American chess, but I got a lot of respect for Aronian and the Armenians. Levon himself seems like a gracious player too.
It would have been really interesting to see how the game continued after Rxd6 Qxd6, Be5 Qxe5, Nxe5 Nd5 at that point black gains a tempo on the knight on e5 and can proceed to play Nc3....but probably Nakamura considered this and figured it was no good, or too complicated to play in a Blitz game against Aronian
The camera has to stay on the game. If we see the face of a player instead of the game, then it's all over ! It's finished ! Terminado ! Capout, fini ... Thank you.
Yes, it is good to think about the line but obviously giving up a whole minute advantage by thinking about one move for 90 seconds was not a good idea in this 3 minute blitz game.
Uhh, toward the end at around 7:00 Aronian's timer seems to gain a few seconds every time he makes a move and presses it. Is it just me or does anybody else see this?
two hands castling and Aronian never needed to cry like a baby on the twitter.
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castling with two hands is perfectly legal and normal in blitz games
Yeah, US rules are different
Just an amazing game if chess. Levon is so impressive in his poise and approach. So sad what’s happened in his personal life in the last few years. I have nothing but admiration for the man.
1:15 I like how Hikaru goes for the clock but casually comes back to fix the pawn :D
The title says Aronian "crushes" Nakamura, and it certainly looks like it at times, for example, when Aronian traps Nakamura's queen. But, in fact, it is amazing how Nakamura manages to keep almost even material after losing the queen... and how nearly he comes several times to drawing or even winning. That said, Aronian played a fantastic game and deserved to win. Moral of the story: CZcams titles. Lol.
Exactly. If that was a crush, then I need to look up my dictionary. A very nicely played endgame, yes, but a crush?
John Rain McManus Yeah, it's exaggerated but I think the term "crush" is referred to the fact that Aronian won the game with tactics: 17. Rxd6! at 1:55, clearly Nakamura misses that, he looks crushed :)
John Rain McManus
I had to look and make sure Aronian hadn't posted the game. ;-)
+Richard Cochrane It's Nakamura who insist on playing on so long that when he eventualy resigns, he looks like a fool. Just looks at the Carlsen game (where he is completely crushed btw). But it's blitz - as long as there are pieces on the board, the opponent can always blunder under time pressure, so one can't blame him
+John Rain McManus if that isn't outplaying or crushing a GM I don't know what it is man. From the first minute Nakamura is on the back foot. He doesn't look very happy either, shaking his head from losing de Dpawn, then the queen and finally the game when Aronian treated him like a puppet in the end game. Sorry, but DO NOT LIE. Nakamura was clearly humiliated here. I think he should have resigned earlier in the game. Playing till the end made him look even more ridiculous. An ego test I guess. LOL
Nakamura really needs to work on his "poker face" in chess....
there was a q&a at washington university that nakamura said that he doesn't really believe that there is a poker face in chess, only bluffs by unusual opening moves with confidence to throw off the opponent.
Jonathan Shin
Well, one could argue that Aronian already staked a psychological advantage in the match with Nakamura's first shake of his head....=)
I dont really think it matters at that level.Yes, at the amateur level facial expressions can shift games just by an amateur player looking for and finding something they didnt see previously because they noticed a shift in their opponent's facial expression, but at the top GM level players will see something they missed instantly after making a bad move so it doesnt matter much.
2:00 what a move amazing !!!
why queen not take the rook?
Exciting Game. The Chess is beautiful, great Aronian, great Naka, incredible defense
Aronian's Rxd6! refuted Naka's ambitious but rather careless opening play. If Qxd6 then Be5! and white regains the rook in b8, beautiful, with a pawn plus in the center, a much more solid position and black's aggressive prospects vanished in the night. Later in the game comes white's Ng4! winning black's queen (she has no square to go!), another crushing blow. In the resulting position white's two minor pieces prove better than black's rook but even then there are practical problems which Aronian works out in time pressure, amazing game by two amazing players.
9:06 Great game, I like how cool Aronian is playing and moving, he is in complete control , and here I like how he placed all his pieces on black squares, game is almost over, Excellent from both Nakamura and Aronian !!
Always fun to watch Naka lose. Does that make me a bad person? I don't care.
Do u have any links? hehe
+bkeers I don't really like his attitude. His style of play sometimes is just so far fetched. He claimed he could beat Fischer easily.
+Maikel Dante Anything "vs. Magnus" is a good bet, lol - he has an embarrassing record against Carlsen
Naka is the fastest blitz player of this decade, which makes him possibly the best or second best
@@LaPoubelle42 Yeah but his style is not respectful
4 years later, Nakamura actually crushes Aronian in a blitz match in St. Louis
9.5 to 6.5. czcams.com/video/jS9foIR-Ljk/video.html
fighting spirit by Naka!! What a legendary blitz player. Of course needless to say that he also is a top pro at std time controls, but he will forever be remembered for his out of the ordinary feeling for blitz, akin to the ways of the blitz god Alexander the Great Sasha Grischuk!
They way he plays with N+N+B is impressive! With 2 sec inc. amazing skills
It seems exchanging the rook was not an issue ..The reason Naka was so tensed and took nearly 1 min to think on Rxd6 because there are more associated problems .After Rxd6 Qxd6 Be5 if Qe7 say then 1. Rook on b8 is falling with a loss of central pawn..2. pawn on c5 is falling followed by pawn on b4 (.especially after Bxa7 Qxa7..) which is major setback..since entire queeside pawns are wiped out...Hence Naka didnt take with the queen and played Bb7 so than rook on b8 can come on c8 to protect the c5 pawn...which he later did.
Ok if you were wondering I'm pretty sure these are the dgt boards and they use these because they can keep record and monitor where the pieces move with it
Aronian was very inspired. Brilliant!
beautiful endgame technique by Aronian. he made the pieces work together very nicely.
It's a move called En Passant. If your opponent moves a pawn 2 spaces from their second rank and it lands beside one of your pawns, on the next turn only you can move behind that opponent pawn with your adjacent pawn and the enemy pawn will be captured.
7:34 boo-hoo-hoo I lost my queen (:
@MrRazorblade999 Two clocks in one housing. Each has the same number of minutes and count down to 0. Black starts Whites clock by pushing the button on his side. That starts White's clock running and will continue to run while he is thinking about his move. After White completes his move he pushes the button on his side and it stops his clock from running and starts Black's clock. And so they repeat until the game is won or drawn or someone's clock runs down to 0, which is a time forfeit (loss).
Never get tired of watching this video.
it's called en passant. When a pawn moves two scares forward, an opponent pawn is allowed to capture it as if it only moved one square. But only in the immediate following move.
And the move at 1:25 is called "En Passant" its a 1 turn only rule where you can take a pawn that has just moved 2 ranks on its first move if you are beside it, but if they do not choose to take en passant then the move is no longer legal after the turn is over.
@2668860 It's an "en passant" capture, which means "in passing" in English. It's one of the three special rules of chess. It can only be done with pawns when one is moved out two spaces, another can capture by capturing its path.
beautiful performance by Aronian
To play such an endgame like that with so little time is amazing. What an insight that man has incredible
very serious, quiet whispers set the mood. Hikaru blunders at Qe7 because it fails to address the threat of Rxd6. If the queen retakes, Be5 skewers the queen and rook. Not only does Hikaru lose a pawn but his center is destroyed. Hikaru making blunders like this are extremely rare, even in blitz games.
@amjwUK its a move called En passant. usually the will say it. its a french word and it allows you to make that move. and take the opponents piece but you have to do it right away you cant wait a while then do it.
aronian plays 2 brilliant moves in this game, Rxd6 and Ng4!!
That re1! from naka actually more beautiful than that Levon rd6 in beginning. Just imagine if he was able to hold some pawns and comeback from it.
Nakumara's games are always so eventful :) superb play from Aronian
It blows my mind how quickly he analysed the situation at the end and realised the game was unwinnable.
Respect to Nakamura. Hard as nails.
8:10 hikaru moving fingers: that's how fast he calculate. genius
@ICarnag3I i think the queen's Gambit: 1.d4-Kf6 2.c4-g6 3.Kc3-Bg7 4.g3-0-0
18. Be5 would pin the queen to the rook.
After the queen moves, 19. Bxb8 would capture the rook and black has no way to recapture because the queen can't re-position itself to protect the rook without hanging itself in the process to either the bishop on e5 or knight on a4. Black would be down a rook in exchange for a pawn.
Position at 7:41 (right after queens come off) is a dead draw according to chess engines. Naka just messed up the endgame when there was severe time pressure. Words like "crushes" and "decisive" are definitely an exaggeration.
I'm from Armenia too, and the fact that Aronian get this far makes Armenia to that small as it looks!
If Qxd6 then Be5, but it's hard to spot as the crucial part of the board is not visible because of the camera angle.
Yeah)). One of the best games in this tournament by Leva played!
It's not called a "pin", it's called a "skewer" or an "x ray attack", and Nakamura's Rook on b8 is protected by his Rook on f8.
You are right and wrong. He is from Baku, Baku is now a city in Azerbaijan, Whe he was born was URSS moved to Moskow later and now lives in the States... so i dont think he is so much of a Azerbaijan citizen.
1. Rd8 Qxd6 2. Be5 Qe7 3. Bxb8 Nb5. 4. Qc4 Bd7 5. Be5 Nd5 6.Qc5 Kf7.
This is my engine's line however before capturing the rook my engine gives +8.52 and it thinks that capture that rook is the best way to continue, but with that white's advantage i think it's impossible to even draw with this position as black pieces. Sorry for my english ;d
At 4:25 block the backward pawn on e6, stifle his queen, get your knight a strategic position. Brilliant chess.
Naka discovered he's just another blitzer out there.
Good game and great work capturing it
@84Drumcircle
It's called "en passant," and it has been a normal, legal chess move for centuries.
Pure demonstration of two nights power. Incredible game!
Why doesn't Nakamura just capture the rook on d6 with his queen? (minute 2:00 to 3:30) If he captures it and Aronian moves his bishop on b2 tot e5, Nakamura can just move his queen back to e8 then if Aronian captures Rb8, black will recapture the bishop with the queen. This way Nakamura has an advantage of one piece, or am I mistaken...? Thanks!
There is a bisschop on C8 !
The whole position would collapse after taking on d6.
That is why nakamura chose to play Bb7. Still black is in a bad position.
Kudos for the play he still was able to get.
This was exciting play by both players.
Aronian's face was like "Dude, why the hell did you make that noise?"
its all in the move Rd6 at 2:00. Nakamura was scratching his head ..he's just a memoriser and when taken outside typical lines he's usually baffled.
Classy Levon Aronian 😊
Did you watch that last 10 seconds ? That was the definition of an ass-whuping in Chess. Aronian had total poise under pressure. Nakamura was going crazy. Not that you can even follow what they're doing, they're moving so fast. But then these are two top ranked grandmasters. Aronian was also Fischer Random Chess champ until Nakamura beat him last year. Bobby Fischer used to give his less than grandmaster opponents 5 minutes & take only 30 seconds for himself.
I'm glad he showed Naka's reaction after Rxd6! Wow.. if I'm Naka, I'm wondering how the hell you see in that in blitz.. sick!
I was like "TAKE IT!!! TAKE IT!!!... We all wanna see what's next!"
notice aroniaon had his clock hovering around ten seceonds for nearly half the game, was moving on the two second inc: that is some kind of skill
if a player castles touching the king first, this is quite unambiguous. If he touches the rook first (and touching BOTH at the same time is taking a risk) then the arbiter can insist it was a room move alone and not allow castling.
GM Aronian is Awesome and a really nice guy too.
The bishop can not be captured by the queen in any way, or another piece. situation is simply almost two pawns up for aronian at this point, in material and structure.
it was hell out of a match. Both played superb!
The way Aronian get the queen was amazing
yes, he did not move the king first so castling was illegal (unless different rules for speed chess!)
Aronians handling - in time trouble - of Nakamura's passed b-pawn is really impressive. I'd have lost that 9 times out of 10. I think even the otherwise arrogant Nakamura would admit to getting out-classed in this game.
the mysterious rook sack early is met by Be5 to win the exchange and then another pawn drops, so it's two pawns for the bishop as well as some initiative :)
Where does he win the exchange there? He wins back the rook. The thing for Nakamura is that the pawn he lost is vital.
I have never before seen Nakamura flustering so much, guess he was new at that time
yeah levon on the other hand is a tactical MONSTER
If you take a look at 7:01: Naka was so hypnotized by his two knights in the opponents territory that he was totally blind for his queen beeing trapped on f6:-) Its good to see that even GMs are humans :-)
Me encanta como mueven tan rápido. I like how fast they move their pieces. They are well called GM.
Damn CZcams algorithm. I see you
3:30 Why didn't the queen take that Rook? (I am a beginner)
... (Qd6? Be5)
Valera Osipov Oh thanks. It took me about an hour to understand what you meant by Be5 and then I realized that there is that Rook behind it. Anyway maybe they would exchange rook with rook or something. It's mindblowing how they can make such decisions in an instant when it takes me an hour to figure out.
Thanos Sofroniou Pattern recognition. There is a lot of that in chess :)
Kristoffer Stalsberg I mean it's very important.
***** ...(Rd6 Qd6?) (Be5 Qe7) (Bb8 ...) Losing the rook as well. That also took black time to figure out, it took him more than a minute to make a move, and he didn't come up with any better than (...Bb7) to defend that rook with another rook. Still, Aronian could have attacked that rook with (Be5...) but decided to go a more safe way (Rd6-d1). All in all there weren't much for black to do, as the position for the time was already bad.
@amjwUK it only works when a player brings his pawn up two squares and you have a pawn side by side with it. it only works the move right after he brings the pawn up tho. as they said its call en passant
I wouldn't really call this a crush, but I think it's clear that Nakamura missed Rxd6 which at their level is probably a relatively bad mistake. Aronian displayed pretty masterful technique to win with the minor pieces against the rook and passed pawn.
You can castle and capture with both hands in Quick rated chess. Read FIDE or USCF rules.
@keithbcook No. In Blitz you are allowed to use both hands to castle and to promote, as long as you show a clear intention of doing so. The video clear shows that it was intention, as he moved his king two squares.
that was soooo freaking intense...man, i don't play a lot of chess but i can see the deepness of that "free" rook from white.
I like it when different races and ethnicities duke it out, kinda like saying the winner's race is superior to the race the loser belongs to.
That's true haha. Even Aronian himself said that having those two genes, his genius was guaranteed.
why do all these videos show the faces of the players instead of the game? i'd rather see the board, please
These guys are crazy! What a game!
Nakamura was up a whole minute on the clock when Aronian played 17.Rxd6!
Then Nakamura spent around 90 seconds deciding to not take the rook.
Aronian loves playing on the edge of time.
Did anyone see the tactics when Aronian played Rxd6? It looks like that rook is hung three ways to Sunday. You can tell the move baffled Nakamura, he took a full minute to think about it (rare enough for him on its own) and then decided not to take, I still can't see what Aronian was up to
ricky shabongo Qxg6 is met with Be5 pinning the queen and the rook and the queen doesnt have a square where she can go to protect nakas hanging rook on b8, so overall its just a win of a central pawn, i dont think he took because aronian would of had some tempos on the queen and that knight on a7 is o so very bad and attacked and not defended.
aaahhh the dark squared bishop hiding behind the queen, I see it now, thanks man!
also holding onto major pieces when down a central pawn is best to maximize counterplay
i have seen this game a couple of times.. i think that levon saw him giving thequeen back but that wasn't an issue since for a top gm i don't think coordinating three minor pieces when they are near and outplaying a rook and a minor piece is difficult even in blitz.. secondly.. although ng4 was the game clincher, it was actually f4 that was very hard to find.. but the logic is simple... without f4 the Queen goes to g5 but f4 stops it... to see that and loose an exchange on account of the queen that you are gonna win requires tremendous acumen... kudos levon... show your class in the candidates
If QxR, Be5 is a skewer tactic that would win the rook back as there is no way for the queen to simultaneously get out of the way and defend the rook on b8. The night on a4 covers b6.
As an American I'm proud that Naka is fighting hard for American chess, but I got a lot of respect for Aronian and the Armenians. Levon himself seems like a gracious player too.
that knight in e5 was a fucking monster all the game
It would have been really interesting to see how the game continued after Rxd6 Qxd6, Be5 Qxe5, Nxe5 Nd5
at that point black gains a tempo on the knight on e5 and can proceed to play Nc3....but probably Nakamura considered this and figured it was no good, or too complicated to play in a Blitz game against Aronian
DUDE THE BOARD! Focus!
8:05 What about Rd3 here? And after Be3, defending both pieces, then h5, removing the defender!
Rd6 best move of the tournament
whats up with the weird musics in the background?
The camera has to stay on the game.
If we see the face of a player instead of the game, then it's all over ! It's finished ! Terminado ! Capout, fini ...
Thank you.
you might not've watched if the title were different. i wanted to see nakamura get crushed.
Yes, it is good to think about the line but obviously giving up a whole minute advantage by thinking about one move for 90 seconds was not a good idea in this 3 minute blitz game.
Wow had no idea! Thanks!
When you mix an Armenian and a Jew, you make a very intelligent person.
Rxd6 was nice! and also a great endgame
Uhh, toward the end at around 7:00 Aronian's timer seems to gain a few seconds every time he makes a move and presses it. Is it just me or does anybody else see this?
+Bhargav Mogra um...no. u get +2 seconds regardless of how much time u took to make your move.
Sorry to ask, but why didn't Hikaru take on the d6 ? After Be5 Qe7 Bxb8 he can capture the bishop and he is a bishop up.
Aronian is underrated
wow, what a game by Aronian