Magnus Carlsen Plays The BONGCLOUD Against Hikaru Nakamura

The Magnus Carlsen Invitational, part of the Meltwater Champions Chess Tour. Magnus Carlsen, Hikaru Nakamura, Anish Giri, and others participating.

0:00 Intro
0:28 Anton Radjabov
4:56 Anish Nepo
9:26 Karjakin Mamedyarov
13:16 Grandelius - Pichot
17:33 Magnus Carlsen - Hikaru Nakamura

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[avic]

after several minutes of careful analysis, I have decided that both Magnus Carlson and Hikaru Nakamura made a grave blunder. They should have pushed the kings further

[jg]

- "Levy, why would they do this?"
- "For the meme"
- "Understandable, have a great day"

[notaidan]

Levy: “If you saw Bishop takes Pawn...”
Me: Yessss
Levy: “....congratulations, you found the move Anish Giri played!”
Me: Hooray!!!
Levy: “But that was also the move that lost Anish Giri the game.”
Me: yeah I saw that for sure...

[jimbojj]

"What about bongcloud?"
"You've already played it."
"We've played one, yes. What about second bongcloud?"

[freddyzhao]

That magnus vs Hikaru match was just magnificent

[Aztro_]

"Chess isn't always competitive. Chess can also be beautiful."

[Clarpediem]

The Magnus and Nakamura double bong cloud is just the modern equivalent of two great masters bowing in recognition of eachother's power.

[UVjoint]

I personally loved seeing Magnus and Hikaru laughing like crazy. I don't know if they were also looking at each other's camera feeds, but first Hikaru started cracking up, Magnus started smiling, and then he looked down and also started laughing hard. That was great to watch, and it's also kinda nice to see them both reciprocate each other's humor.

That took me longer to type than it took them to play that draw.

[Kernel]

So now we have new opening theory: The Bongcloud counter-gambit

[danielhwang]

“Gms are like the weird kids on the playground that eat sand instead of actually playing”- Levy 2021

Edit: Don’t you dare reply... please

Edit 2: why me

[austinbensman]

“He defends mate from behind”- Gotham Chess 2021

[jackhazzard]

This game will be studied for centuries

[maysian]

“why would they play that?”
cause it was fucking hilarious

[b.bsharma]

"Our battle will be legendary"
*Bongcloud clashes with the bongcloud*

[theobserver]

Magnus and Hikaru: "Oh yeah, it's big brain time."

[apricitycc]

"Levy, why would they do this?"
"Why not?"
lol exactly

[KhannUurrr]

Double BongCloud draw was awesome, 2 brilliant players opted to make each other laugh when a lot of people are struggling to get that right now with the world. S Tier entertainment from two rivals

[amitmahein]

Gotham: what is the best move here?
Me: develop the knight in order to activate your pieces
Gotham: Yes queen c7 is mate in 1
Me: Ahhh yes i saw that as well

[brendankennedy]

"Mating is good, but you don't always have to do it."

Sage advice for these trying times.

[Baq-yow]

I think Antonio was probably sad that the two decided to draw instead of playing the double bongcloud. I wouldve really also loved to see them play this