World Champion Magnus Carlsen tried streaming for the first time during PRO Chess League Super Sunday.
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What could make the PRO Chess League's Super Saturday and Sunday, a rapid event with five of the world's top ten players, even more exciting? World Champion Magnus Carlsen streaming his games!
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- My name is Jerry, and I'm a self-taught National Master in chess from Pennsylvania, USA. Streams usually consist of playing speed chess with commentary, playing viewers, commentating tournaments, and chat interaction. I've been streaming the World Chess Championship matches since 2012.
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Carlsen decided to stream his play on longtime friend Jon Ludvig Hammer'sTwitch channel. Although Carlsen did not have the best day, scoring 5.5/8 and losing to GMs Wouter Spoelman and Luka Lenic (both due to light square attacks), his candor was widely celebrated by chess fans. At various points, Carlsen observed...
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- 'None of these games are easy at all...'
- 'I should stop complaining. I won so who cares... I care; I don't like playing poorly...'
- 'Let's see if he's prepared for this. If he has that really sucks for me, because this is not a good opening at all.'
- 'How can you people even mention the Super Bowl when you're watching what is going on here? It's just so much better.'
- 'I'm still bummed about the last game... I had a perfect score before that. 10/10. Now... gone! 10/11'
- 'That was a TERRIBLE endgame... Awful.'
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Here's one clip of Carlsen's disappointment after winning (in his opinion) a less than satisfactory endgame against Georg Meier.
You can subscribe to Hammer's Twitch channel to watch the video here and review Carlsen's game archive here.
In addition to Carlsen, super-GMs Shakhriyar Mamedyarov, Fabiano Caruana, Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, Hikaru Nakamura, and Yu Yangyi all played for their teams in this inaugural PRO Chess League event.
Full Super Saturday and Sunday rules and pairings are available here. To summarize...
- All teams play one match against the eight teams in the opposing division. The Atlantic and Pacific divisions played each other on Saturday and the Central and Eastern divisions played each other on Sunday.
- All matches featured one game between opposing boards: e.g. board one vs board one, board two vs board two, etc. All games were played at a time control of 10+2.
- For each day, the top 8 scoring teams received a match win in the PRO Chess League, the middle received a draw, and the bottom eight received a loss.
Cast your votes for game and move of the week!
What was the #prochess GOTW?
Carlsen vs Spoelman - https://t.co/4MOHZnaGEp
Caruana vs @GMHikaru - https://t.co/K4r4ekQJpR
Iturrizaga vs Mamedyarov - https://t.co/rQU25upTyJ
Izoria vs Bartholomew - https://t.co/dVWtEKTGlO@amspros@SeattleSluggers@SanJoseHackers
What's the #prochess MOTW?
Tang's 70...Nc6! https://t.co/xBG3fNJIre
Zwardon's 29...Rxh4! https://t.co/pQj1aLvExz
Mamedyarov's 17.Nc1! https://t.co/xvqsrfpQri
Miroschnichenko's 24.Nxe5!? https://t.co/GjFucsaMsZ@mnblizzardchess@rigamagicians@SanJoseHackers@AusChessKangas
Just learning about the PRO Chess League? Visit the site and read the rules!
Super Saturday
Pacific And Atlantic Division Final Placement
Pacific And Atlantic Division Board Scores
Super Saturday Highlights: San Jose Hackers Really, Really Good
The San Jose Hackers have put together solid lineups each week, but this was the first week that they were able include world number-two Mamedyarov in their lineup. Backed up by Rauf Mamedov and Zviad Izoria, the Hackers had three players who could reasonably be board ones on most teams. Even better, their fourth board, Vinesh Ravuri, scored 5/7! With Mamedyarov back in the lineups after a Tata Steel hiatus, the Hackers look absolutely ferocious. Here's a sample of the many beautiful games they won this week.
Super Saturday Highlights: Chessbrahs Contenders Again With Shiyam Thavandiran?
The Montreal Chessbrahs went all the way to the semi-finals last year and were defeated only in an absolutely epic overtime match with the Saint Louis Arch Bishops. This year, they have struggled to appear the same championship contenders, having lost Fabiano Caruana (to the Arch Bishops) and Li Chao (who founded the Chengdu Pandas).
However, that may have all changed this week as they revealed a new weapon. IM Shiyam Thavandiran scored 7/8 for them on board, the highest score of any player on Super Saturday. Here is one crushing victory he achieved.
Super Saturday Highlights: Pandas And Kangaroos Fearsome PRO Chess Additions
The Chengdu Pandas and the Australia Kangaroos are the two new Pacific Division teams from across the very, very big pond. The Pandas have been eyed as a championship contender from early on as they have fielded elite players like Yu Yangyi on board one. The Kangaroos have bounded slightly below the radar until this week. On Wednesday, they put up a huge match score, and collectively the Pandas and the Kangaroos secured second and third place on Super Saturday. Both teams answered many questions for any doubters unsure where to rank these newer teams.
Here are two fascinating efforts: one from Yu Yangyi (who had his first bad day) and one from Evgeny Miroschnichenko.
Super Sunday
Central And European Division Final Placement
Central And European Division Board Scores
Super Sunday Highlights: The 'Yans' Are Excellent!
The Armenian Eagles, fielding a lineup exclusively of players whose last name ends in 'yan,' won the #prochess Super Sunday, making an impressive statement to a league that didn't really know who they were yet. With three strong GMs on the top boards, their consistently impressive results from CM Artak Manukyan on board four, make for a very, very difficult team to defeat.
One of their more fun wins was this victory by the 'Yan in Chief,' GM Hrant Melkumyan on board one, who exchanged many pieces for his opponent's queen in a tactical flurry.
Super Sunday Highlights: Gnomes Still Seeking Perfect Lineup
Despite an off-day today, Magnus Carlsen seems a relatively good bet to score 4-0 in any given week. Certainly, you'd have to be pretty gutsy to keep him out of your fantasy lineup. However, the World Champion seems to be insufficient to guarantee the Gnomes victories in light of cracks elsewhere in the lineup.
Their talented youngster, Elham Abdrlauf scored 2/8 on the day and had yet to earn a win prior to Super Sunday, but he did finish the day with one. Like the Chessbrahs, the Gnomes are a fan favorite of whom many expect a deep playoff run, but they have yet to capture the lineup magic that took them to the PRO Chess League finals last year.
Despite the many fine wins by Gnomes who finished with a draw, we can't resist showing one of their losses, a very exciting game between World Junior Champion Aryan Tari and GM Levan Pantsulaia of the Stockholm Snowballs, a team that narrowly bested the Norway Gnomes by a half-point.
Super Sunday Highlights: Stormbringers In Form With Andreikin
Last year, the Volga Stormbringers made the playoffs and were only ousted by the Norway Gnomes. This year they have struggled, losing all three matches so far. Super Sunday was their first opportunity to debut their powerful board one, GM Dmitry Andreikin who scored 5.5/8 on board one. He was bolstered by strong performances on all boards. Collectively, the Stormbringers scored +12, finishing only a half-point behind the Eagles!
Here is a barnburner from their board four, Valdislav Chizhikov. Perhaps no part of this game was really 'correct,' but how often do you see a game with four queen promotions?!?!
Carlsen Beats 'That Guy' Giri In 1st Skilling Open Knockout Day
Yesterday lichess hosted the strongest arena-style tournament in history and it was won by the strongest player alive. 118 titled players participated including 22 GMs. In the days leading up to the event lichess staff were mobbed with titled players excited to get their title verified so they could participate in the event. The prize fund was $1000 in total with $500 going to the winner, although it seems that this was secondary to most players who simply wanted the chance to play in a fantastically strong tournament. We chose a time control of 1 0 due to its popularity among elite online players and to show off the speed of lichess' interface. Many of the participants chose to remain anonymous leading to rampant speculation before and during the event as to the identities of certain players, especially the ones who were thrashing GMs at an impressive rate!
When the tournament started Twitch and YouTube were quickly filled up with streamers playing in the event. IM Alex Astaneh Lopez gave commentary on the official lichess twitch page.
You can subscribe to Hammer's Twitch channel to watch the video here and review Carlsen's game archive here.
In addition to Carlsen, super-GMs Shakhriyar Mamedyarov, Fabiano Caruana, Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, Hikaru Nakamura, and Yu Yangyi all played for their teams in this inaugural PRO Chess League event.
Full Super Saturday and Sunday rules and pairings are available here. To summarize...
- All teams play one match against the eight teams in the opposing division. The Atlantic and Pacific divisions played each other on Saturday and the Central and Eastern divisions played each other on Sunday.
- All matches featured one game between opposing boards: e.g. board one vs board one, board two vs board two, etc. All games were played at a time control of 10+2.
- For each day, the top 8 scoring teams received a match win in the PRO Chess League, the middle received a draw, and the bottom eight received a loss.
Cast your votes for game and move of the week!
What was the #prochess GOTW?
Carlsen vs Spoelman - https://t.co/4MOHZnaGEp
Caruana vs @GMHikaru - https://t.co/K4r4ekQJpR
Iturrizaga vs Mamedyarov - https://t.co/rQU25upTyJ
Izoria vs Bartholomew - https://t.co/dVWtEKTGlO@amspros@SeattleSluggers@SanJoseHackers
What's the #prochess MOTW?
Tang's 70...Nc6! https://t.co/xBG3fNJIre
Zwardon's 29...Rxh4! https://t.co/pQj1aLvExz
Mamedyarov's 17.Nc1! https://t.co/xvqsrfpQri
Miroschnichenko's 24.Nxe5!? https://t.co/GjFucsaMsZ@mnblizzardchess@rigamagicians@SanJoseHackers@AusChessKangas
Just learning about the PRO Chess League? Visit the site and read the rules!
Super Saturday
Pacific And Atlantic Division Final Placement
Pacific And Atlantic Division Board Scores
Super Saturday Highlights: San Jose Hackers Really, Really Good
The San Jose Hackers have put together solid lineups each week, but this was the first week that they were able include world number-two Mamedyarov in their lineup. Backed up by Rauf Mamedov and Zviad Izoria, the Hackers had three players who could reasonably be board ones on most teams. Even better, their fourth board, Vinesh Ravuri, scored 5/7! With Mamedyarov back in the lineups after a Tata Steel hiatus, the Hackers look absolutely ferocious. Here's a sample of the many beautiful games they won this week.
Super Saturday Highlights: Chessbrahs Contenders Again With Shiyam Thavandiran?
The Montreal Chessbrahs went all the way to the semi-finals last year and were defeated only in an absolutely epic overtime match with the Saint Louis Arch Bishops. This year, they have struggled to appear the same championship contenders, having lost Fabiano Caruana (to the Arch Bishops) and Li Chao (who founded the Chengdu Pandas).
However, that may have all changed this week as they revealed a new weapon. IM Shiyam Thavandiran scored 7/8 for them on board, the highest score of any player on Super Saturday. Here is one crushing victory he achieved.
Super Saturday Highlights: Pandas And Kangaroos Fearsome PRO Chess Additions
The Chengdu Pandas and the Australia Kangaroos are the two new Pacific Division teams from across the very, very big pond. The Pandas have been eyed as a championship contender from early on as they have fielded elite players like Yu Yangyi on board one. The Kangaroos have bounded slightly below the radar until this week. On Wednesday, they put up a huge match score, and collectively the Pandas and the Kangaroos secured second and third place on Super Saturday. Both teams answered many questions for any doubters unsure where to rank these newer teams.
Here are two fascinating efforts: one from Yu Yangyi (who had his first bad day) and one from Evgeny Miroschnichenko.
Super Sunday
Central And European Division Final Placement
Central And European Division Board Scores
Super Sunday Highlights: The 'Yans' Are Excellent!
The Armenian Eagles, fielding a lineup exclusively of players whose last name ends in 'yan,' won the #prochess Super Sunday, making an impressive statement to a league that didn't really know who they were yet. With three strong GMs on the top boards, their consistently impressive results from CM Artak Manukyan on board four, make for a very, very difficult team to defeat.
One of their more fun wins was this victory by the 'Yan in Chief,' GM Hrant Melkumyan on board one, who exchanged many pieces for his opponent's queen in a tactical flurry.
Super Sunday Highlights: Gnomes Still Seeking Perfect Lineup
Despite an off-day today, Magnus Carlsen seems a relatively good bet to score 4-0 in any given week. Certainly, you'd have to be pretty gutsy to keep him out of your fantasy lineup. However, the World Champion seems to be insufficient to guarantee the Gnomes victories in light of cracks elsewhere in the lineup.
Their talented youngster, Elham Abdrlauf scored 2/8 on the day and had yet to earn a win prior to Super Sunday, but he did finish the day with one. Like the Chessbrahs, the Gnomes are a fan favorite of whom many expect a deep playoff run, but they have yet to capture the lineup magic that took them to the PRO Chess League finals last year.
Despite the many fine wins by Gnomes who finished with a draw, we can't resist showing one of their losses, a very exciting game between World Junior Champion Aryan Tari and GM Levan Pantsulaia of the Stockholm Snowballs, a team that narrowly bested the Norway Gnomes by a half-point.
Super Sunday Highlights: Stormbringers In Form With Andreikin
Last year, the Volga Stormbringers made the playoffs and were only ousted by the Norway Gnomes. This year they have struggled, losing all three matches so far. Super Sunday was their first opportunity to debut their powerful board one, GM Dmitry Andreikin who scored 5.5/8 on board one. He was bolstered by strong performances on all boards. Collectively, the Stormbringers scored +12, finishing only a half-point behind the Eagles!
Here is a barnburner from their board four, Valdislav Chizhikov. Perhaps no part of this game was really 'correct,' but how often do you see a game with four queen promotions?!?!
Carlsen Beats 'That Guy' Giri In 1st Skilling Open Knockout Day
Yesterday lichess hosted the strongest arena-style tournament in history and it was won by the strongest player alive. 118 titled players participated including 22 GMs. In the days leading up to the event lichess staff were mobbed with titled players excited to get their title verified so they could participate in the event. The prize fund was $1000 in total with $500 going to the winner, although it seems that this was secondary to most players who simply wanted the chance to play in a fantastically strong tournament. We chose a time control of 1 0 due to its popularity among elite online players and to show off the speed of lichess' interface. Many of the participants chose to remain anonymous leading to rampant speculation before and during the event as to the identities of certain players, especially the ones who were thrashing GMs at an impressive rate!
When the tournament started Twitch and YouTube were quickly filled up with streamers playing in the event. IM Alex Astaneh Lopez gave commentary on the official lichess twitch page.
Magnus Carlsen Twitch Clip
GM Andrew Tang also streamed the event:
Winning the tournament was World Chess Champion Magnus Carlsen with a staggering 2918 performance. He played anonymously but allowed his identity to be revealed after the event. When contacted about paying out the prize money Magnus decided to graciously donate the money back to lichess! The entire lichess team was left stunned at his incredible gesture.
Magnus Carlsen Twitter
Finishing second was Bombegranate, an anonymous GM. His or her name may not be known but their chess strength could not be so easily hidden. They had a score of 2.5-2.5 with Magnus yesterday, but crushed most of the remaining contenders and finished with a performance rating of 2793.
The top 5 were given prizes and there was a bitter battle for those final places in the final minutes of the event. After the dust settled, lichess favorite GM Andrew Tang was in third, despite playing the first part of the tournament on his way home from school with an iPad. Finishing fourth and fifth were German GM Georg Meier and another anonymous GM named TheWarning.
Apparently the tourney itself wasn't enough to satiate Magnus' appetite for bullet as afterwards he immediately jumped into a 40 game match with GM Eric Hansen, winning 27.5 to 12.5. Astaneh continued his suave commentary and followed this series, which begins at 2:15:08, seen below: 2:15:08
Magnus Carlsen Twitch
Special thanks to the entire lichess team for putting this amazing event together, to the lichess patrons who made this event possible and to the participants who made the event so special!
