Anna Cramling Asks Ding and Nepo ”What Is The Most Fun Chess Opening”

This was from the candidates press conference with the top 3 finishers, Ian Nepomniachtchi, Teimour Radjabov and Ding Liren.

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[oddmetre]

They had more trouble calculating the concept of "fun" than they do complex lines

[BobfromSydney]

I love Ding's concentration face as he thinks over the correct answer regarding which openings he thinks are the most fun.

[mahmudhussain]

Anna ask a question
Nepo:-i am introvert🙂
Ding:-🤨
Radja:-🎤🎤

[srinivas]

Mean while .Ding calculating solid lines in those funny opening😁

[saadmohammad]

Ding's idea of 'fun' is 'complicated but playable'

[Hubythereal]

love how Ding's calculating all the lines he ever played, to decide which is the most fun to play

[randomchannel-pxho]

Radjabov: "um the Danish is funny"

Nepo: *nerds out about the history of chess and players being comically wrong about what was playable, also tries to set up Ding to discuss the english*

Ding: "uh kings indian and sicilian"

[xebit]

I love how Ding starting laughing after hearing that 1.c4 is supposed to be bad bc it blocks the bishops diagonal haha

[radeklew]

This is one of the best chess press conference videos I've seen, an interesting question that gets them talking about the game they love. Usually it's just "how did you feel when you blundered?" "bad"

[TheWizardsOfOz]

It kind of felt like suddenly they were like: There was this one time when..., and that type of thing is nice, because it shows that the question got them thinking. They all answered the questions very well.

[tomriddle]

Ding was calculating the response whole moment

[al]

They had 90 minutes to answer, and then another 30 minutes after the 40th word

[ralphdrees]

Anna winning the candidates with 1. Ask a question and the super GMs all flag trying to calculate the concept of fun.

[frog]

I think radjabov is the least awkward super gm

[agayevrauf]

1:30 seems like Ding took b6 too serious, while radja was talking he is calculating the possible outcomes 😀

[kev_mclernon_family_channe]

Always enjoyable to see Grand Masters, laughing and being very accessible and down to earth, Great question also,

[MultiFirefox]

Radjabov looks like John Wick 🤣🤣🤣 he killed Nakamura's and Ding's hopes in the second half of the tourney.

[yobroh]

Wow, she actually managed to break the tension on the conference 👏👏😁 Big applauds

[yeeluvspizza]

Ding praying he doesn't have to speak.

[frednimzowi]

Wow thank you Anna for this question! I was not expecting that much, specially with Nepo who doesn't share so much and Ding whose english is still limited. Radja gave for a time the most answers, citing some of the usual suspects. And suddenly the sun came out of the dark night, Nepo recalled that Lucena anecdote and Ding bursted out laughing genuinely. It's not only that the Engludh opening is one of Ding's favorite, it's that in the very 1st game of the Candudates Tournament Nepo won against Ding's 1.c4.
I'm not sure Nepo said this on purpose but Ding certainly remembered and "aporeciated". What a great moment!
Interestingly my 2 of my 3 favorites players (not a pronostic, just the players I like most) ended on the podium: Ding and Radja. The 3rd one is my favorite overall butI was not exoecting much because he played much too much in the last 6 months: Richard Rapport.