Nepo vs The Interviewer

It's time for the world's best chess players to battle it out at the 2022 FIDE Candidates Tournament! The most important event of the year, Hikaru Nakamura, Fabiano Caruana, Alireza Firouzja, Ding Liren, Ian Nepomniachtchi and more are playing for the chance to become the challenger and take on five-time world champion Magnus Carlsen in the 2023 World Chess Championship!

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[chesscomclips]

A "Second" is a person who helps the chess player to train, prepare for opening, etc. He can be considered a Trainer or Sparing Partner.

[greennin]

She shouldn’t have given up. She should have followed up with “do you like pinapple on pizza?”

[brendan]

She took some weird aggressive lines but some good prep meant that Ian easily refuted them. I feel like Ian was +3.4 when the interviewer resigned.

[apurvmj]

When unanswerable questions meet unquestionable answers

[ahmet]

When the unstoppable force meets the immovable object.

[pamansaru]

Nepo definetely have prepared tons of lines both on the board & off the board

[cupass]

this needs to go viral, greatest interview of all time.

[DebuJalananOfficial]

That's one quality interview right there.

[CharlieFleed]

This was like when you try all your keys to open your front door only to find out you're at the wrong number.

[David-ezfp]

"Why would you ask this" is such an awesome response

[petermorcos]

You know it's a great interview when you genuinely can't tell whether the interviewer and interviewee were running with some sort of inside joke, or whether they're just so awkward together it feels like a parody of an interview.

[SomeOne-fxkr]

"You wanna take this outside?" would also have been acceptable.

Love these two!

[ordinarryalien]

Belenkaya tried "Have you ever fired a second?" gambit, but Nepo had prepared lines for it.

[ottovabonjo]

This is one of the interviews of all time

[additionaddict]

The perfect parady of this interview….would be this interview

[paulgraf]

It seems like every question is like a chess puzzle for him and he tries to find the perfect move in the shortest amount of time

[kentso]

nepo held with the black pieces and ended the game with a stalemate

[pepega]

white played quite an obscure gambit here. Instead of going into the tricky engine prepared line, nepo smartly declined the gambit and reached equality immediately

[rahulkapoor]

Nepo's not being arrogant he's being smart

[Robin-lyys]

Next question would have been: "Have you ever heard the tragedy of Darth Plagueis the wise?"