GM Vidit Gujrathi makes an illegal move! | Vidit vs Hikaru Nakamura | Tata Steel India Blitz 2019

When you begin your chess journey, you are taught the rules of chess. While learning the rules, you tend to make illegal moves. But as time passes, you become stronger, well versed with the rules and moving the pieces becomes very natural, intuitive and almost a part of you.

When a GM plays chess it is almost impossible to think that he would make an illegal move. Yet at the Tata Steel Chess India 2019 Blitz GM Vidit Gujrathi made an illegal move! Vidit is not just a GM, but in fact a super GM with a live blitz rating of 2756!

How did he make an illegal move? Check out in this video?

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[shaktiprasadrath]

Pro: minor pieces sacrifice
Ultra pro: queen sacrifice
Ultra pro max: king sacrifice

[wompastompa]

He just wanted the kings to talk it out and solve their problems diplomatically.

[paulallen]

Poor guy had 1 second left and panicked, if it was me I would have directly captured the king to establish dominance

[cyrilgigee]

Nakamura or Carlsen: *takes piece*
That piece for the rest of the match: 🙂🙃🙂🙃🙂🙃

[vicnent]

Alternate title: Man makes illegal move for the judge to reset the timer, giving him time to think.

[aldrifayeah]

10:17 Cough so loud that the lighting changed

[divvyagada]

10:17 someone coughed so hard that the lights went off-aldrifa yeah

[LaMilice.]

Why is it that at every chess video, you always find two things:
1. Coughs.
2. Comment section filled with comments about coughs.

[magma]

Wtf are they playing at a hospital, everyone’s coughing like they got TB

[HosseinRZ]

7:37 Best Move Ever i Seen by Hikaru nakamura

[paeratatahuriorangi]

White king at the end: “I propose a parlay”

[t.h.mcelroy]

15:28
Black King: "Oh? Are you approaching me?"

White King: "I can't put myself in *check* unless I come closer."

[BobTheStrangeMan]

"If a king does not lead, how can he expect his subordinates to follow"

[levelmake]

“Excuse me I have a slight cough.”

“Ah, you’re gonna need some cough medicine, good sleep, and directions to the closest chess match!”

[samrsanche]

How dare they play chess in the middle of a coughing competition

[devangbarot]

15:26 for those not bothered to watch the full 17 minutes looking for it

[nidalsaifan]

It’s not chess without 50 million people coughing in the croud

[iJuulia]

vidit's face: 🤔🧐🤔🧐🤔
hikaru's face: 😟🙁😠🤔😐😬😦

[Requinix]

And it was at this point that we have a completely new game

[dustykh]

10:18 a man coughs so hard the table light goes off, spooking nakamura.