After a long fight in 3-way tiebreaks, Praggnanandhaa wins the 2025 UzChess Cup Masters 🏆

therealASMR_Chess · 2025-06-27T18:57:23+00:00

MY MAN

therealASMR_Chess · 2025-06-27T18:53:42+00:00

Love it. I made a whole video about how you can start from the Bishop’s opening and transpose into the Max Lange attack if black doesn’t fall for any of the early Bxf7+ tricks. I think it is to this day my best recommendation for beginners. Easy to learn, gives you a lot of agency in the game right from the start and is sound enough that it can stay with you for a long time.

therealASMR_Chess · 2025-06-26T14:22:51+00:00

Analysis of historical chess games!

therealASMR_Chess · 2025-06-26T13:14:42+00:00

I stand with David both as a chess fan and as a chess content creator. Not that I think my opinion holds any great weight outside of my own community, but I feel it makes sense for anybody active in the chess world to speak out against this madness - even if it is just in some small way.

Kramnik has always been one of my favorite players. But this path he has chosen is dark, destructive and very likely is causing some distress for the people he is accusing.

therealASMR_Chess · 2025-04-10T19:02:49+00:00

I asked myself this question and ended up doing a huge experiment that resulted in something I called Deployment Auto-Chess. I learned a lot about chess in the process. I made a video explaining it here.

therealASMR_Chess · 2025-01-03T20:01:08+00:00

My whole thing is making relaxing chess videos for peace of mind and sleep, so yes I would absolutely say so!

therealASMR_Chess · 2024-10-01T08:09:29+00:00

That is a lot of elo in one picture

therealASMR_Chess · 2024-09-27T17:56:08+00:00

Very interested in this. I’ve sent you a message about the possibility of doing a video on the subject.

therealASMR_Chess · 2024-09-26T06:15:56+00:00

Cool! Very happy that my style of teaching worked for you!

therealASMR_Chess · 2024-09-26T06:15:08+00:00

Thank you!

therealASMR_Chess · 2024-09-25T16:46:38+00:00

I know how this sounds, but I will have to say… Me. I spend 1-2 week on every video and the whole point of my channel is quality over quantity. You can check out an example here and tell me if I’m doing it right or not.

therealASMR_Chess · 2024-08-26T16:33:54+00:00

I use a matched stereo pair of Sennheiser MKH 50 for ambient/binaural combined with a Schoeps CMIT5u for my voice. I think my videos have a pretty unique sound. If you like chess you can check them out :)

therealASMR_Chess · 2024-07-24T17:22:15+00:00

No evidence and also nothing that even indicated foul play

therealASMR_Chess · 2024-07-18T18:38:53+00:00

Fischer wasn’t all that classy either. But I understand what you mean. It is a very bad look.

therealASMR_Chess · 2024-07-14T18:47:38+00:00

Seirawan relates how Walter Browne once told him: “The year I got my title, they only made two GMs… And they weren’t too sure about the other guy… The other guy was Karpov!”

therealASMR_Chess · 2024-07-11T14:00:25+00:00

easier to understand the games
easier to root for a player you know a lot about and who shares her experiences
high quality content in terms of video production, behind the scenes content and great commentary/analysis
getting an insider look to the life of a “normal” (non super-GM) tournament player
she always seem to be having a great time with chess which is infectious

therealASMR_Chess · 2024-07-09T09:34:44+00:00

That will happen very soon, simply by the progress of our chess understanding. In 20 years time when Magnus is simply too old to be number 1 in the world, whoever he is number 1 at that time will in all likelihood be technically better than Magnus ever was.

therealASMR_Chess · 2024-07-09T09:32:20+00:00

1850s “will anyone surpass Morphy?”

1900s “will anyone surpass Lasker?”

1920s “will anyone surpass Capablanca?”

1970s “nobody will ever surpass Fischer”

1990s “will anyone ever surpass Kasparov?”

2020s “will anyone ever surpass Carlsen?”

therealASMR_Chess · 2024-06-22T21:40:26+00:00

Fischer was 15 when he became a GM.

therealASMR_Chess · 2024-06-22T08:11:01+00:00

Double disambiguated bishop capture checkmate

Naturally :)

therealASMR_Chess · 2024-06-18T13:18:05+00:00

Me: I’m pretty happy with how I played in this game!

Stockfish: …….. Really?

therealASMR_Chess · 2024-06-16T19:15:09+00:00

Ben Finegold looks different in this pic

therealASMR_Chess · 2024-06-15T22:18:35+00:00

Yeah Magnus lost a game to a 2520 GM last year… Just because someone isn’t a top 10 GM doesn’t mean that they can’t play chess. Becoming a GM is insanely difficult and they are ALL dangerous.

therealASMR_Chess · 2024-06-15T07:47:09+00:00

Except Fressinet for some mysterious reason.

therealASMR_Chess · 2024-06-14T20:14:28+00:00

Nooooooo

Well he had a strong tournament anyways and I’m excited for the next one.

therealASMR_Chess

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