On Thursday, Jan. 23, 2020, I had the incredible opportunity to film with World Champion Magnus Carlsen in Wijk aan Zee, The Netherlands! I recently completed a nearly 20 hour video course for GM Jesus de la Villa’s 100 Endgames You Must Know, and Magnus agreed to take the 26-question Basic Test in the course. It was a pleasure to sit and chat with the World Champion as he explained his thought process on these endgames problems, described his approach to endgame study, and shared his tremendous insight into the game in general. Enjoy!
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Is this guy ever not an arrogant fuck?
I just got done going through about 80% of the chessable course without the video and I decided to look up this video again (saw it two years ago). As of this moment I have all these positions memorized but I have to say that the written portion of the book absolutely sucks! De La Villa has to be the worst chess author in the world. Great content but the book sucks. I recommend getting the video version of the chessable course if possible.
why would u be forced to under promote at 12:04
Literal god. When it comes to chess he is a chibi with all names already entered
what game are they playing?
are they playing chess?
Annoying when interviewers try to prove their intelligence or competency the entire time..
Watching this like I know what the heck is going on.
Lol. Magnus is king.
That move at 8:17 ….. Magnus's move of Bc5 is clearly SO much better than what the tutorial suggested. Magnus was right to be completely baffled.
The computer should be embarrassed for playing so poorly
"Short Diagonals, Long Solutions "🤣🤣
– Magnus Carlsen 8:47
Thumbnail looks like Magnues being interviewed by Daniel Radcliffe
Not that i am anywhere near to beeing a good chess player but Magnus solving these things without knowing the "rules" or whatever you want to call it suggests to me its actually a pretty good lesson. Seems like most of them rely on some underlaying logical principle most beginners would no think about.
02:20 no, I don't think Magnus knows. He's not so into this game.
If this was a review of the 100 endgames. This is a negative review.
This quiz would be so much less frustrating to do if it just accepted the alternative moves as correct but moved the piece to the space the quiz wanted (or at least say which square it wanted). Watching him try 6 different moves when it's obvious he knows what to do is kinda cringe.
Imagine you were so good at something that when you take a test, the test gets evaluated instead of you.
0:43 Magnus snapping back into reality when addressed is hilarious it's like he forgot the other guy was even there
I think nowadays, it is better to buy an excellent theory book like Fundamental Chess Endings by Muller, and play 7 piece tablebases, because we can actually test "alternative" move and see how computer would react.
Ridiculous . . .
“If you know this, you’ll never forget this”
What was he talking about?
Wow, how Carlson looks at the camera directly definitely helps make this video way better
I like a dominant champion
"I've actually become a pretty decent defender of rook endings"
Lmao at "pretty decent".
Absolutely wonderful content right here.
Excellent ❤️
I love Putin and Rusia they are chess and strategic country ! Fuck Ukraina
John 3:16
“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.”
15:51 "I don't think of key moves, I just think of… resigns" ahahahahahaah
How to solve exercise 13v
Dear, that chess book by DeVilla, yes, I should admit Carlsen is much better than me. I should learn more. Good luck Champ.
He say there is only one way But I see lot of ways. I'm sure all my other ways are wrong. for an example, on Exercise 19 how does black lose if king goes to g2?
12:03 why does he have to under-promote?
Why does JB always look so dead inside 😂 Like he's constantly having hazing flashbacks from high-school
When you try to use magnus to sell some software but he make the software look bad… still interesting to watch.
At the very end after bringing up his losing game from the past Magnus looked distracted, I think he was running end games through his head where he's improved
100 endgames gets Carlsen tested. Comes out acceptable with room for improvement
Fantastic video. Great host! You feel comfortable and your extra explanations helps me to understand everything clearly. Love learning Chess and am thankful for videos like this.
Wow, that's actually pretty impressive. He finds the alternative moves some of which were better than the solution moves and actually found improvements on a few of these exercises.
This guy seems to be good at chess
At 6:58 timestamp he is leaving the universe for a second.
Magnus nightmare: Only the 2 of us and a chessboard left on earth.
Come to think of it it could be mine…
Magnus great player but terrible teacher 😀
Magnus: Once you know this, you’ll never forget it.
Me: I’ve already forgotten
Let Hans Nieman do this test 🙂
I thought '100 endgames' as '100 rated endgames' lol
6:30 that is beautiful
Funny, that Magnus proved that this chessable course is dumb.
1:30 "But I am the better player, and I'm the bigger name, that's the reason I am here instead", What an conceited statement from him, and its also disrespectful to his dad.