It took me 3 seconds to realize how STRONG this kid is at chess

Ladies and gentlemen, something absolutely crazy happened to me and I'm going to share it with you in

this

video you saw recently. I was in Charlotte, North Carolina for a massive 3 day

chess

festival with over 500 kids and at the end for fun. I set up a

chess

board with a clock and played against a group of kids in a row, they would have 1 or 1 and A2 minutes and I would only have 30

seconds

and I played against a kid who talked to me so badly I knew I had to. I won at all costs but there was only one problem, it

took

me less than 3

seconds

to

realize

that

this

kid was terrifying.

I will show you the live footage of this game and then analyze this game step by step oh. and if you manage to watch this video the first 3 days it's out, I'm currently having a St. Patrick's Day sale on all my courses, they're 20% off. The link will be in the description and if you miss the offer, there will probably be another one in the future, now let's get into this game, you don't even shake hands, okay, go ahead, oh my God, it's like an earthquake, oh God mine, we've knocked down all the pieces basically, oh that move would have been really good, why?

Didn't you play that move? Did you like a fall? For sure yes. Oh come on, you could have won. How

strong

are you? I'm just grateful I only have 1000. We can reset the board. We will reset the board. he should play with these kids no way he's a thousand oh my god he might be a little good you know what you've earned the right to talk trash okay that was really fast so I'm going to break down the game because there were some They are quite instructive moments overall, but before doing so I would like to tell you that it is extremely difficult to play a game of chess with 30 seconds on the clock and it is even more difficult to do it physically on the board. at a ridiculously ridiculous speed because you don't have a mouse, you have to physically press the watch, so I told all these kids that I was going to try my hardest.

I played against over 50 kids that day. I won every game except this one. child, I offered to draw as a move before checkmating him. I won every game except this one. All of these kids were pretty good, but a thousand, there's no way that young man is a thousand. Now that's a fun story before we show you our first moves. here the day before this kid ran up to me we had an interaction and he said none of your videos are funny and they're not good and you think you're funnier than you are and I was like wow excuse me and we I had a little bit of back and forth, obviously, it was all a lot of fun, but when I sat down to play with him in a game I thought I had to beat this kid.

Did you see how fast he made the first move? I knew immediately that he was out. To get me, a lot of these kids played slowly, slowly, they got their piece, they were nervous, did you see how quickly that young man rattled off three moves like it was nothing? He wanted to kill me because he knew he only had 30 seconds and he was a little softer now he already made a mistake in the opening but of course we are playing Every move in half a second we are basically pre-moving IRL Knight C6 is not a good move at all start of the game this is a sicilian defense actually started as french but come on here this is a sicilian defense should take my pawn but it's in pre-move mode now I punish it immediately I play this move D5 and overall really You shouldn't allow yourself to be overrun by pawns at the beginning of the game, particularly when your knights could be targeted, he

took

and was on autopilot, played Knight D4.

He didn't expect the D4 Knight move, uh and me. I'm kind of like mentally programming moves, of course Knight D4 is a mistake because the Knight takes the Pawn takes the Queen, but if I tell you that you have half a second to make a move and hit the clock and at the same time I say, oh My god, this kid is really very fast, you know, I got to I played well C3 and I and I traded Knights instead of facing D4, now I'm even better, right? and my plan was to develop my Castle pieces quickly and go attack because again I need to win quickly.

I'm showing these kids no mercy and this young man said I'm not funny and that hurt my ego because I'm almost a 30 year old man who needs constant validation so I drank with the lady who played D6 and now I thought, look, of course I can develop some pieces here and I have a slight advantage here because his bishop is a little passive. I have a little more space and, uh, space, that's what. It's not a legal move and my queen is, you know, kind of a pressure, so I gave her a check and my plan was to trade it into a castle and make a couple of quick moves and then of course.

I'm going to win because I'm probably a lot better than him. I don't know what his playing strength is, but I imagine I'm better than him. Bishop D7, we changed and castle, but the guy wasn't giving me anything. like he was ready for me to make a mistake, something put a horse, he just developed the horse from him. I gave him a check because I mean, he could also improve my rook position and then he played bishop E7. Now I'll remind you based on the video you just watched, literally every move is done in half a second, so there's no real time to sit and think, but the funny thing about my whole plan.

I had a plan from this position that I executed and

realize

d it doesn't work. The plan from here had been to do this commercial castling and in this position prevent it from castling because I have pressure on the bishop and wherever I castle the king will no longer protect the bishop, so I was going to do something like Queen E2, but that didn't happen. It works mainly because, first of all, he could take, but mainly because he can castle. If I'm making a move that prevents someone from castling and they're not doing it, but then Newcastle likes it, that's really, really bad and the point is that he would do it. he pins my rook to my my my queen to my rook and it's checkmate if I take the queen, he takes my rook, it's crazy, so I thought, uhoh, that's not good, so I developed my night and now he castled and you will understand. very little time on the clock.

I need some advantage I can get if I have about 22 seconds from this position to win the game. The only way to do it clearly is because he is playing very fast. The credit goes to this young man, he was playing Super Rápido and that's it. really important and the thing is to play fast and very

strong

really impressive because he was like eight years old, okay, literally, I have no idea how old he was. He was like an eight year old, so I need to attack. I immediately realize that my knight is going to reach F5 and from F5 I'm going to press the bishop I'm going to press here I'm going to go to the Queen G3 I'm going to M, right?

I'm going to bring out my bishop I'm going to put my knight on F5 I have my rook active like the kid is going to completely fall apart, he goes here, it's a great move, right, he wants to move the bishop, maybe he wants to exchange. Torres with me I played Knight E3 at this point I have a feeling I'm going to take control of the game now like he can't trade queens with me I'm going to put my knight on F5 he makes a move here that I was a little lazy you know, simply by sliding the but even you will see the images behind.

He played this move quickly. He played every move close and fast. He didn't do anything drastic. He didn't stop for 10 seconds. like he's playing Gotham, I'm going to no, he said really and that really made me nervous the fact that he was keeping up with me so far in the game and it's not worse, you know, at this point. I don't know why I didn't use Knight F5 again. I don't have much time to make these moves so I can't do it so before playing Knight F5 I decided to play H3 because In fact, I'm going to attack him with this pawn and then you'll know that he doesn't have a knight protecting his king and I thought that this was kind of but of course I should bring my pieces like and and you know I criticize it.

Sometimes you all execute a plan and then forget about it. This is the way they play this position with white. They try to damage its structure. They try to open the king. This is a winning position for White because this knight is so. strong now would go here and try to do it in the future and that is the way I would play the position so Knight F5 is definitely the best move H3 and G4 is not the best move and again you are playing each move very fast. Right at this point, I realize that this plan that I'm going to make in half a second is not particularly good because in fact, he's going to go here and I'm actually leading his horse to an even better position, right, but I?

I'm all in and I'm and I'm going for it, I just have to win the game, and again mentally I'm thinking that at some point this kid is going to collapse like he's young and probably like 14,300 like at this point, the ELO In my head I guess the kid is like 1,700 because he's the same after 15 moves against me and I'm actually trying it like I'm not testing you. I know, but I like it. I told you at the beginning. I have 30 seconds. I told all the children. I'm going to play as hard as possible. This won't be like a play.

Gotham, have fun, maybe I'll let you win, no. "Everything is going down. I need YouTube content. Well, I have to feed my wife and my dog ​​G5. He goes here and I realized he wasn't winning, so I went to Queen G3 with the intention of letting you know that this It's a step aside, my F pawn, I'm ready to face this move with F4, that was my idea and I thought, okay, G3 queen, my next move will be the F5 knight and then I'll bring my bishop and then I'll go here. and here this young man made this move G6 plays G6 stopped me from playing Knight F5 so now I have no attack all this time I thought, well this is going to be easy, I'm just going to March towards the position and then I'm going to play KN F5 no , played G6 now I have to readjust my strategy I don't know exactly what the time stamp was here I don't know exactly how long I had the clock but I have to adjust it on the fly so I said ok H4 I have to try I mean I have to speed up the pawns forward I have to open his king I have to make sure he gets nervous and he's going to go here and I'm thinking he's going to do Knight E5 and then I'm going to go F4 F5 blah blah blah blah blah no just play Bishop f8, do you understand how good a chess player you have to be to make such a calm move?

As if this child has a future, he will bring the bishop to protect the king as a continuation of his previous move. He played G6 because the bishop has no forward mobility and now he is going to retreat to protect his king and open up his rook. I was completely dumbfounded. Flabber like and again he is also playing on my time, he sees that I don't have much time so he is playing very fast so H4 H5 just makes Bishop G7 I have nothing and I have to continue making risky decisions. Of course, I should take out my bishop and I need to protect my rook and I need to go here and here in a normal game.

If this were just a normal game between Grandmasters, that's probably what White would do, but this is a game with 15 seconds on the clock and he has, you know, 30 40, whatever he has, so here I'm thinking I can take it, but then I lose all my where's my attack? I no longer have an attack, so what did I decide to do against it? this is pushing this pawn forward so that his king has a little less room to breathe and I thought okay, my pawn is too advanced. What I'm going to do now is find a way to get to His king I'm going to play maybe you know some of these moves so that way here I played bishop D2 and bishop D2 was designed very simply to play something like the C4 horse.

I want to play knight C. I'm going to play F4. F5 and maybe F6 mummify him, my game plan is really simple, he really can't move much, come on, this is my second wind and then he made another big move, definitely so the timing situation determined as far as me regards. worried, this is a fantastic move now F6 again keeps the game in balance, it could have been even better to play F5 just creates this wedge not letting me advance any piece F6 is like Gotham, what are you doing with this pawn, get out? from my territory and it's another really good move, it's a very, very timely move at this point in the game.

I'm thinking about whether I completely despair, just sacrifice myself and play as G6. I have news for you. I'm not even sure any of this works well, apparently taking works, but if he doesn't take If he just puts, I just lose, so taking works, but otherwise it doesn't work. F6 is a fantastic move and you will notice it. I was really nervous. He was like knocking down the pawn. I took the pawn now. It would have been very bad for him to take with the bishop because if he takes with the bishop, I have a goal.

I'm looking to just get an imbalance. I'm looking for something, okay, if I can change the knight to the bishop and then bring my bishop here. I'm winning again. I'm winning. I mean, I'm coming into the position and he had it great, he did it with the knight, he didn't do it with the bishop. 23 moves we have played. I'm trying to beat this kid at all costs, I admit I'm not playing, maybe the upper motor moves because I'm playing them extremely fast. he stayed the same with me for 23 moves, whichhe's extremely impressive, he hasn't collapsed, he's played solidly and right there I realized, oh, I was wrong because I'm not attacking anymore, he's attacking me.

I'm thinking now I'm going to lose I'm going to lose this game That's a crazy thought like I'm not prepared to lose. I arrived there. I was going to win every game so I went to F4 and the idea of ​​f4 is like I said play F5 but I'm realizing I'm fighting him and I'm a wounded man, I don't have artillery, he has the tower, he has the knight that will come and hit me, has a bishop protecting his king, but is ready to be on the attacking piece at any moment and he played here. Every move this kid made was a good move and I don't have time.

I have to keep fighting. I take my queen out of danger. I protect my bishop. Now he was very smart and said that the best move for him is not to take the. The knight is a god, it's an amazing piece and just to let you know, I mean if he gets this position it's over, if this bishop also comes to life the game is over so he's very close to winning he already takes it because you know it again. he just played a night move, a second night move and is just trying to perform simple moves.

He is trying to play simple chess because none of us have much time on the clock and now he again played the upper engine move for the last time. six moves has played the top move of the computer engine Bishop f8 develops the bishop and defends the king is the top line of the engine this is a kid who literally said it's a thousand he better have lied to me he better have lied to me because He had the foresight to know that I am going to make a video about this game and when I talk about him being a 1000, there is no way he is a 1000 because many of you are a thousand and not If you didn't play like this you would have already lost all your pieces .

This guy might have 0000 on the board, which means he has 1700 on the line. He has a better position against me after 25 moves and simply becomes Queen F7. I'm trapped. He's aiming for my pawn He's got a rook here He's going to play rook up and double I'm just losing again and again I'm not in a mindset here where I'm thinking oh, like we're going to do it, you know, We're going to make some trades and we're going to be like no, no, I'm losing the game and I'm panicking. I mean, the best move, of course, is to protect the pawn.

I should move my knight, I should play here, but I thought I was going to go here and here, so I panic and play Rook e two and my idea with Rook e two is that he will take my pawn and then I'm going to bring my second rook and then I'm going to mate him because again I'm thinking he's going to make a mistake. He has to make mistakes at some point. He is a little boy. He took my F1 pawn rook and then here. I don't know if he got my hopes up, as you know, in poker there is a thing called a slow roll, when you know you have the winning hand or you are very sure that you have the winning hand, you play slowly.

I think so. with no intention in the game, he made this move, put her queen there, kept her hand on it and then brought her back and that's when I said oh, it would have been great if you had done this move and then I said I gave this. Check it out and I just want you to understand how smart this kid is. He just took one of my pawns. he took the second pawn, he gave me check, he gave me check to make me move my king to another check. I tell you this young man has a future in this game, the fact that he has kept his nerve up to this point is absurd and now he is down. aside now I went here he went here and I went here and I was just, I mean, I was ready for him to drop the rook and go for a mate, I mean, straight up, that just wins the game and he repeated moves and I was . here and he repeated and then I said: are you trying to make a tie?

Do you want to tie because you keep shuffling back and forth? He knows the rule in chess if you shuffle back and forth and listen I'm not in a position to negotiate anymore I can't negotiate anymore I was like are you sure you want to draw he said yes and I was like he forgives me is like it's like it's like it's like a movie it's like a movie when the villain is right there he just a move away and then he says, "I'm fine and he kept me alive," this young man kept me alive to think about this I play for the rest of my life, that's why I said what's your rating.

I didn't know his grade, he said. mil a there's no way this guy is mil there's no way it's not possible he outplayed me for 30 moves yeah I had 3 seconds to do the game review he probably had a 77% accuracy and mine was 74 .I don't know who this kid is and, frankly, I never want to see him again in my life, but I will say that it was a ridiculous effort on his part. He should be extremely proud of that game. I really wish he had gone for the win. instead of going through the motions, but that's life and this young man better become a starting player because he's really good and it took me less than three seconds to realize that, so congratulations buddy, now get out of here .