MAGNUS PLAYS THE BANNED GAMBIT!!!!!!!!

Ladies and gentlemen, whether you are new fans of chess or have been around for many years, you should be aware of the fact that basically every day in the world of chess there is a new story every day, every week, every months, every year. In the world of chess there are memes and there are dreams and we are currently in May 2024 and the memes are very, very strong. Yesterday we received some more of them by first-class mail in the form of Magnus Carlson, the best player in the world, playing 11 of 11 games in Tuesday's chess.com title tournament playing the A4 Rook A3 opening better known as the Band Gambit better known as the V so opening and if you don't know what I'm talking about in a very very brief synopsis last week a Grandmaster account was

banned

on ch.com after extremely good results in an extremely dubious opening who then took to Reddit and Twitter to talk about the fact that first of all, they revealed who they are, who Grandmaster Brandon Jacobson is and saying he didn't cheat and that's currently the story did he cheat didn't he cheat?

I'm not so sure but what I am sure of is that everyone is playing this absolutely idiotic opening now and uh yeah, let's see how Magnus Carlson did it. I actually played a bit of this myself, of course the opening I'm talking about is playing A4 Rook A3 and quickly losing your Rook, I mean that's the opening right now. Mr. Vu, also known as Brandon Jacobson, reached 3140 3150. defeat nit defeat other players uh in overall very very good results what if Magnus Carlson, the best player in the world, tried this opening himself ? Now I'm going to take you through his tournament because he did this against 2500 2600 2500 2800 Grandmaster 2800 Grandmaster, then we got to 2900.

My son was playing this against very, very, very, very good people. Let's see how he did. Now in game number one he

plays

against an international master who doesn't take the bait, okay he doesn't take the bait, he just develops his pieces and says you know what I don't want Magnus to embarrass me because I'm going to do it anyway , so at least I want to put up a good fight now while Magnus just left the tower there and I want to say this. sample type The Goal strategy of what to do if they don't take the Rook Magnus puts his Bishops in the corners by the way, this is a completely free Pawn.

I have no idea what his idea was here, maybe it was to play Queen. C1 or queen C2 and the thing is, if you don't take advantage of the advantage that Magnus is going to give you, well, he will. I love how the tower is standing there like it's going to surpass you in time, so you might as well try it. playing against Magnus with an advantage now to Black's credit, Black got a great position and I think because Magnus was in full meme mode he wasn't really pulling out all the stops, I mean as you can see his opponent here he finally decides to go for a tactic which is to give up his rook to take another pawn and now he is going to attack both rooks at the same time, but he forgot that he was literally playing the goat, so after queen A2 takes, takes, takes , Magnus has a bishop and a knight for a rook which is very good Black has two extra pawns but it's probably not going to work The knight takes F7 it's a beautiful blow of dynamite Black makes mistakes you take the knight I take the bishop now there are two bishops per rook and this is completely winning position and Magnus clears it immediately he goes to his favorite phase of the game which is the end of the game, all he needs is a pair of bishops and a pair of pawns PS, the pawn wins , win all that and now the pawns. they just go, it's a red carpet, look at this, look at that security escort to the end of the board, beautiful stuff, it goes G6 G7, this disconnects the pieces and uh, he won this game by two minutes and a completely dominant performance, but his opponent no. take the tower from him, so we can't really evaluate what happened here.

Well, what's up with this game? Well, in the first few games his opponents just weren't interested in memes, which is really disrespectful. I mean, we've never lived in an era where the best. chess player in the world logs in for meaningless blitz games and

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A5 Rook A6 I mean, Gary Kasparov would never be okay Fisher didn't know what the Internet was, well, I mean, like these people, the Internet didn't exist in 1972, did it? TRUE? No, I don't think he did. I'm just kidding. I'm kidding. Obviously, G6 did it, and White just plays normal Catalan and yeah, some of Magnus's opponents just wouldn't let him have any fun.

I mean he had to leave the Tower there and then he said, "You know what I have to beat you normally." And you know he's on top of the Tower for one night. He is a monster of Magnus and Carlson, he does not receive checkmate. He swaps the pieces. He goes to his favorite phase of the game, which is the end of the game, and you know that in this game he reduced it to a few pieces, but he won the bishop and won the game, but some of his opponents certainly wanted to participate in the memes.

They wanted to participate, how is Magnus going to handle this opening? I mean, Brandon, the damn son of jakc, beats Daniel nitzki 40 to 29, beat Darus Schweer 16 to 4. I mean, what just reinvented chess? This is the best opening. I have to tell you. I played this opening myself I won some good games now the thing is losing a corner rook to a bishop isn't that crazy of a disadvantage in a three minute game with bonus time zc but this opening sucks with a great depth of dried fish it's like a 2 and a half to three rating, but the thing is, most people are human, most of you are cyborgs and NPCs, but most of us are human and you know this is not the easiest position to be in. handle, especially when you don't play it correctly.

The way you see black and white is kind of a strange setup and, by the way, for the record, Magnus plays this his way. Magnus doesn't take instructions from anyone, you learn openings when Magnus plays them, he doesn't play them. based on what someone else says, you know technically you're supposed to play this opening by doing this, that's what you're supposed to do and then this and then this and Magnus says, I'm going to play this opening though. I want, I want to take the center, well, I want to take the center E5 Knight D7 Rook B1 and suddenly from the opening there is Almost no Advantage whatsoever and then here Magnus has the Queen H4 in check, he doesn't call, he doesn't play.

Queen H4 um Queen H4 is not winning a piece, but she is winning a very important pawn, so Magnus would be winning another pawn and now he has only one point of material disadvantage, it is actually better because he will put his knight on C4, huh, but you. I know the goat fails on a fork because you know he's in meme mode, but already from the opening he takes on G1, you enter a tactical sequence and the Bishop at A6 is on his way and he's just going to win this game, and? What went wrong in this game is that his opponent played in a very foolish way.

I mean, his opponent didn't put the Knight on the most natural square and then it got tangled in the center and then I mean Rook B1. I can't even explain it. this move I I you don't even know and then Magnus just destroyed the central castling and his opponent tried to fight him, it didn't work now that he's pinned Queen H4 Queen H5 White's position is completely falling apart look at that Queen B5 and ya You know, he's just going to clean things up in tower C8. He could have played a little better, but as always, he goes to his favorite phase of the game.

It's an endgame. The white King is outdoors. and uh he's going to lose all his pieces and here we go B2 B1 you can't stop him run away try to hide you can't B1 he's mate and he won well but he's beating people who are 700 think about that Magnus has 3230, his opponent has 253, 700 points, bro, you get to a point on shell.com, you beat someone, you lose rating, have you ever seen those things like if Magnus beats his opponent here, he wins a point. I didn't even win. point for this game I don't think he would have liked it if I updated Did Magnus gain a rating point? that he won a rating point, did he even win one in this game?

That's crazy, he didn't do it, he doesn't even earn a rating, bro, imagine having such a high rating compared to someone else that they don't even give you a rating point. oh my god, that's crazy, okay, now this game is playing against a Polish Grandmaster, right, the Polish Grandmaster says: I'm not taking your tower. Notice how the other people didn't even have this option, as if this person was playing with a Catalan, as if he didn't have the option. to take this person didn't play either, he has too much scar, they're not even taking that scared they are now, so now c4 put a pawn to block his bishop in this opening, you know you're going to do it.

You're going to find people who aren't willing to participate in their own potential shame, which you know is hard to do. You just watched Tom Brady's roast, like it's not easy to volunteer. Stuff like that H4 H6 and in this game his opponent just plays very main he just said, "Okay, push, push, Magnus is just relentless, relentless guy and at this point White says I have to take because I have nothing, so take it and then get to the end of the game.” so he thinks I got to B by a rook, it makes sense to win the endgame, but he's playing with the greatest endgame player of all time.

I mean, it doesn't matter, you know what I'm saying, like seven pawns for black, only six for white, black is down, okay, black is down one point of material, it's a rook for a bishop and a pawn, but here it is very difficult, you know, it is very difficult to progress. Tower D2, trade horses to try to progress. white position and simply blocks and then plays A4 controlling the light squares and then wins another pawn. His opponent makes a mistake with the pawn on G2. The bishop returns to E4 G 5. A nice little counterplay, not necessary.

He could have just played the C6 knight, but trying to play quickly put pressure the best move here is Rook and one that his opponent finds now Magnus goes here looking for complications and suddenly he could be in serious trouble so suddenly we have the first stages of what happens when this opening fails this opening is not like the second uh it is not like the second version of chess this opening sucks it is very difficult to play at a material disadvantage for so long The pawn takes The pawn takes the rook D7 now you have to do magic from Magnus the king walks, I mean what's up, brother, brother, he just walks his king, brother, he thinks he's a, he's walking his king for real.

The pawn takes the bishop, he's just losing the C6 knight, but you know it's stressful to get into a winning position against Magnus, so White is now. until less than 20 seconds The king returns to F5 How are you going to attack the king? It doesn't work Tower F2 Tower F7 I mean, it looks like maybe you're going to win something. No, he defends himself and now White. he met with very serious resistance. Magnus has two passes, it's just a draw, it's a draw, the whole material imbalance is just a draw, but white is going to get to less than 10 seconds, oh, but now it's definitely a draw, I mean, it's a bit crazy, he did it.

Don't take this well, this is just a draw, so now I mean, if you're playing white here, you could just exchange the rook, you just exchange everything, you just sacrifice and, uh, you just make a draw, but he's trying to gain. is not trying to tie, he has both rooks trying to win the game, but ironically Magnus does it too somehow and he wins, so Magnus wins this game and there is a ridiculous time fight and this game is ended because you just make a queen, okay, but In that game in Mag, you know he had to do some serious magic, no pun intended, and at some point his luck would start to run out.

In this game, Magnus played this opening against a very talented young player who he ultimately made the very difficult decision to capture. his rook and now Magnus plays the Vu London, so Magnus plays a London system but he is one rook down by a bishop. I mean, you talk about UGA London, this is UGA London, bro, it's clear, he's playing a London, but there's no rook and there's no dark squ Bishop for Black Crazy Play Bishop B3 just plays normally now bring the knight back to B1 Bishop G5 and now play this move to try to damage the pawns.

His opponent is, I believe, one of the youngest Grandmasters in the world. world right now ehor uh uh snov from uh Ukraine Bishop F4 G5 Bishop G3 Knight C Knight to E4 and from the opening I mean Magnus just got a dream position Bishop for Rook correctly or at this point it's Knight for Rook but in the end at the beginning It's Bishop for rook and he completely controls the position and it's very difficult for Black to break through, probably at this point it's just a draw, like there really isn't much that can be done, you know, maybe Black is going to do some type of breakthrough, eh, because The person who controls the pawn breaks ultimately controls the game, but it's actually Magnus who is trying to make a breakthrough because he is Magnus, he plays all the games in the way heQueen E2 will probably win.

Here he could have played the B3 Rook, but then he would have lost a pawn, keep pushing, keep pushing and uh, they go into a D6 tactical Skirmish Knight and it's very complicated, but ultimately, although Magnus is able to pick up some pawns, It has one less tower. I must remind you that he lost a rook. on the fifth move of the game and about 30 moves later you will really feel it, you will feel like you have one less rook in this game, that the rook comes back to bite you in the, you know. what rook A2 bishop B7 and that's mate, so you have than change the checkers now and suffer.

Magnus goes here but somehow there is no checkmate and unfortunately he has to draw or, fortunately, but he saves the game, he doesn't get mate, eh, sir. snov, the second youngest Grandmaster, maybe the third youngest Grandmaster in the world right now threatening a checkmate with the Rook because of the way he was introduced, they gave him the Rook, uh, yeah, now, uh , and Magnus has to force a draw, but I mean he's drawing well. The other thing to remember is that this is titled Tuesday. Brandon was playing this in three minute chess, this is three plus one, so from this position white wins 100% of the games if there is no bonus time unless you are playing them, but in the case of Magus .

Magnus would win 100 out of 100 games from this position with white if there was no bonus time, but because it's title Tuesday there is bonus time, so beating your opponent, who is very young and very fast, would probably not possible, so this game finally ends in a draw. but there was more, I mean, this guy was doing this relentlessly, here's a game against the very strong Polish Grandmaster Casper Pan, uh, this was, again, Magnus playing in a unique way, uh, and uh, you I mean, bro, you just gave up rook and played Knight A3 Knight C4 Knight D2 did a knight carousel like marry and then played G3 Bishop G2 and I mean, his position is terrible, I mean, at high depth, this probably be something minus five like this.

Terrible position, the amount of odds Magnus is giving his opponents here is disgusting, it's incredibly disrespectful. Pon, I saw someone on Twitter and they wrote something like imagine, I mean, it's your only chance to play against the best player in the world. world and he's doing this to you and it's like it sucks, it sucks, it sounds like a skill issue to me. Knight E4 Bishop E4 castles I mean, White is down in exchange, Black has the center, Black has the activity, Black has literally everything that you sometimes say in chess. I don't have material but I have compensation like I'm compensating right in this position black has compensation and the material is fine Queen D5 Queen D2 r I mean black is doing everything perfectly now what you do here with black you play Knight for E5 you exchange a lot of pieces, you win the game, yes, because if Knight D4 you lose the bishop, if Knight E5 you take the bishop.

Knight D3, you play the Bishop E4, you take, I mean, you just cut everything, maybe the Knight goes to F4 you play some Queen F5 Queen I don't know, but little by little you win the game Casper just has to know that he plays h well H3 Queen C5 is fine, is finding her place Rook C1 is winning completely needs to play Knight E5 in at some point wavered a little H4 A5 is fine, is restraining Magnus but is not doing anything, is not doing anything right Bishop F1 is fine and now Magnus starts to back off so it gets a little bit harder to trade now Magnus tries to try it by the way Knight A2 is a w it's a replay I mean the position is losing here take F6 okay now the knight is coming to life and you know, maybe Magnus, oh oh, sacrificing a knight, now do the math, white is down with a full rook, he's down with a full rook. absolutely nothing to show here Rook to H7 kick out the queen now let me attack I mean, Magnus, do you count the pieces?

Magnus has one less tower, he has three less material points, he has two extra HP, but he has one less damn tower in case it's not clear. has one less rook Queen C3 Knight F5 Bishop A3 Queen D5 but now he's making it difficult here Knight G3 just wins the game easier said than done plays Knight D4 and makes a mistake after Queen D4 take after the big exchange after taking take take take, take, take, there's the F5 bishop, which is a fork, otherwise you'd just be winning, you'd only have two rooks, I mean, you'd just clear, oh no, oh no, so you don't make a mistake with the fork, but he makes a mistake in this position and now Magnus is just losing a bishop to a rook and he, oh god, he's in the endgame, okay, but at least this one will end in a draw, there's nothing wrong , I mean, very simply, you're going to trade like you're going to trade the pieces and oh no no Magnus is doing his magic no no no no no no oh oh he makes a mistake all over King D5 and suddenly he doesn't win Rook F anymore oh you had to play Tower H5 you had to do it in the other order but you do it this way and now you lose because oh man okay Magnus was completely lost the whole game.

I mean, how good is this opening now? Magnus is not playing it in the meta way, right, he is not playing it, he is not playing it like uh, I like the right way, which is this, he is playing his way and you can't waste any more time, you know, black they just got a completely dominant position, oh but Magnus still made it, here's the game against a 2940, not this person. he has as high a title as the previous player but this is clearly a player who will get the Grandmaster title in the future and this player plays with the way he plays with principles like E5 and again Magnus doesn't understand the theory of this opening. not playing the opening the way it's supposed to be played, which is defending the bishops, you know, dedicated to the cause of doing it his way.

F6 Bishop D7 and he still has one less rook for a bishop, it's just amazing A4, okay B3 solid stuff Rook C1 Queen E6 oh wow look at that no Queen for Magnus okay because last game he was trying to get some counterplay White says there are no queens Knight D5 let's exchange some pieces I enter your position you play defense White is much better the imbalance is still Rook versus Bishop there is no difference in pawns Rook e one that is apparently a very bad move but King F7 and now Magnus starts pushing his pawns forward instead of abandoning the position uh I don't know why he didn't double after the Knight takes C2, you exchange the Rooks correctly and then if King, if King F7, you play the Rook C8 and, um, maybe I was worried about losing these pawns, but Magnus will also lose all his pawns, so instead I want to say.

I'm one, I'm not saying he would have found it, I'm just saying that was the best move now Magnus meanwhile dances, by the way, he doesn't look at the tie, he had the opportunity to repeat moves that he could have repeated. does not achieve a draw and now begins to try to take over the game despite having less material, he still has less material, it is much worse, it is still more two G4, but suddenly the bishops come to life uhoh oh uhoh White has many weaknesses and they have 30 seconds to solve them all oh no, he is taking over the game again oh white is parallel, he can't move, he can't move, look at this, he just can't move anything and the bishop comes to A6, oh, or F5, Oh.

Oh my god, oh no, oh, and now it's over, look at Ian, he just can't move a piece, he just can't move and he quits, so Magnus is beating these people in that mid to late phase. game where you look for the best player. To the world, this level of imbalance makes no sense in the Blitz Games in the Blitz Games in a 90 minute game, it could be a different story and it would be absolutely fascinating to see the amount of odds it would take now that Magnus lost a game. I'll show you. that game was very close to losing several games was very close to losing the game I just showed you against porun was very close to losing this game this game was crazy I can't believe I didn't lose this game this is against Idis gell Great Turkish master, who is one of the youngest in the world at the moment, I think he is about 15 years old and, as you can see in this game, White took the rook because this opening is rubbish, although I myself know that I have had some success with her.

It's completely ridiculous the way I'm beating my opponents, it's like tricking them, yeah, and I mean, as you see here, Edis just plays straight down, I mean, really just down the board, marches into the position of the black ones that Magnus is forced to go to. an endgame and uh white actually lost some advantage but then regained it Rook A1 Bishop A1 now picks up this pawn and it's over I mean he has a pass pawn C and a rook for a knight that's like the game would have been over King absolutely over E7 C5 maybe you would have wanted to start with the Knight A4 just be patient but it's okay C5 The Knight goes to C4 Rook A3 and he's going to win the game and here Idis says brother, take the pawn, take it , I'm going to celebrate. in these pawns you are going to lose Magnus plays King C5 Knight to E3 and in this position he finds one of the craziest defensive sequences I have ever seen.

This is so absurd that the Knight is protecting the pawn. The Tower can't stand it. okay, but the horse is hanging, so what are you doing right? you move this knight to C6, okay, but the rook will just move along the 7th rank as if the rook is going to go there and the KN is still hanging, yes, but then this. The knight jumps back again and then you cover your king with the other knight you play, you play the knight to C6 defending this knight that protects the pawn and somehow the rook gets trapped, no, but I mean, this is like witchcraft, I mean, this is that I don't.

I don't know how he does this to people and now he won't lose a single pawn. It creates a complete barrier and you won't miss anything from time to time. This tower is in prison. The tower is trapped in jail. I don't. but this is, I mean, this is so sick, this is so sick and now he might even play to win, it's just not even right, he lets out the rook, but now he comes in with the knights, he can win a pawn here with the knight. . E2 but it's too dangerous if you're facing F4 Rook A7 Knight G5 and it's probably bad news, so Magnus actually ends up forcing a draw here.

I don't think he would want him to like it, I think if it were up to him. I would have played this to win, I was under a lot of pressure here, White M handles the end of the game, he doesn't lose again, but Magnus lost a game, he lost a game and it was against the Lithuanian grandmothers, uh p nisus. and uh, let's see how it happened e A4, okay, we got everything right and lo and behold, this guy plays the right setup, plays the right setup, the same setup that Mr. V Su himself was using, but then instead of play E3 Knight E2. he plays Knight F3, which we've seen is a technically incorrect approach.

The Meta seems to be that you need to put your pieces like this, uh, from the very famous 69 game match between Daniel Nitzki and Brandon Jacobson Knight F3, the reason why this is The bad thing is that White loses time Knight to E5 and now you go to go to C5. Here Magnus plays B4 to not allow Black to play C5, so Black plays A5 and then C5 anyway and is basically just buying time and this just can't work. uh, this can't work, uh, because you're just opening up a lot of lines and black plays bishop D7.

White implements the correct game plan, true, he implements this game plan, but what is the difference between this game and some of the other games? It's just that Ptinus didn't sit around waiting for Magnus to lose, he didn't shuffle the pieces, he just went after Magnus and was like, look, I got it, you know, I gotta go out with a bang. I'm going out with a bang. H3 Rook B8 taking the open file Bishop C3 attacking the weakened pawn he says go ahead and take it go ahead and take it take the pawn you really can't because then I want to play H4 if you take I have different attack ideas here I mean I'm not going to dismiss right away , it seems extremely dangerous, actually, what happens if I fire immediately?

My original thought was that the Rook could just walk away, but after Queen H2 and here it could even have E3, I mean, this seems horrible, horrible, very, very bad, so yeah, that's what happens. I mean, he hesitates now. Magnus has to start playing a little defense, but in this game, unlike the other games here, his opponent wasn't afraid. I mean, he just walked him along the way. board played Knight to H5 Knight B1 took, you can't really take because Knight is going to take and I mean we see Magnus, he's the one down 40 seconds, now E3 closes the door, this is the worst nightmare of this opening , I mean.

Magnus has been able to cheat and duck and weave and get out of the way, but oh my ptin nisus shut it all down, I mean, he got the rook, he got the rook, he got theclamp and, uh, all that kind of trouble. of this opening are exposed in this game when Black closes the entire Center and hits it from all angles. I mean, now it's a resounding blow. If Magnus had done this on equal terms, it would have been extremely impressive, but he probably played the worst opening known to humans uh and uh his opponent punished him for it because and yet Magnus was, you know, threatening a checkmate, It didn't quite work out uh and now a promotion from gangster to gentleman which I actually think is the best move by the way. it's the quickest checkmate because it forces a reaction and then when you take, I won't actually fold it, I'll play Queen C2 Queen D1 and then it's mate momentarily, so C1 Knight is a very good conversion and Magnus loses to Mr. ptin evisus in general.

Magnus finished this title on Tuesday with a score of nine, eight and a half. I think he drew three games and lost one win, so he had eight and uh no, no, no, no, no, no, let me calculate, let me calculate the last game. He played against us, I think it was weather, which is the game I showed you. I'll calculate it, I think it was nine points, but I might be wrong, so he won one, he drew, he drew three and he lost, he lost one, so no. bad Drew three lost one, which means he won seven, so eight and a half, eight and a half points playing this opening, which you know, which led him to lose a lot of points, led him to lose like 30 rating points , so his performance was probably something like 2,900 3,000 with this opening, granted, the time control was 3-1 if he were playing these games in a different format, maybe he would have won some of these games, but that's the reportNow I could give you my report too.

I've played this opening a bit just for the memes and dreams. But that's how Magnus did it with this opening and we'll continue to follow the story. Brandon Jacobson has since posted again. He is also saying that he was going to post on another social media platform, we will see if chess.com publishes a report from Brandon Jacobson. I have no idea what to expect. I am eagerly waiting for the next updates. I love Chess World because my God we can't get out of our own way, it's amazing, that's all I have for you today, get out of here.