411 Year Old Blunder

Imagine being a late renaissance-era Italian chess nerd just chilling out with your bro in Rome, having a friendly game of what you'd call "scacchi" (or something).
You play a beautiful game and have dreams that maybe one day someone in the future will appreciate your brilliance. And then you almost immediately die. Yeah. Later that year you kick the bucket. You reach the 9th rank. You flag IRL.
Then, centuries later, some nerd digs up that final great game and posts it to Reddit for the attention of an even bigger nerd, who can't even afford a chess board and has to play your entire game in his head, to figure out that 20 moves into your game you played a move that wasn't optimal. You experience a second death, 411 years after the first.

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[mitchellcrouch]

Hikaru: Can fully mentalize a 21 move game and spot inaccuracies.
Also Hikaru: Blunders basic arithmetic.

[zconnelly]

This is the same feeling the computer gets when it watches me miss mate in 6 to go +59.3 instead

[AWildRaito]

The description is a work of literary art.

[louayyahyaoui]

*reads PGN*
-Yea there's a blunder on move 78. Come on chat.

[misa-rlpr]

the description is truly *chef’s kiss* hikaru’s editors better be getting the top dollar

[lukaswastaken]

Sheesh the power of a supergm right here

[debblez]

“hey bro you’re not sharing your screen btw”
“I know”

[extasse]

The fact that I was able to recreate the position in my head- I have finally ascended

[akshay]

Me who is new to chess : "sir youre not showing chess board in the screen"
Wait...

[betterthanyou]

The description is my new favorite thing ever actually.

[mohammadaminsarabi]

Best moves dont create immortals.. beautiful moves do.

Ps: the description was beautiful. Nice job bro.

[irving]

Hikaru has a literal engine in his brain but can't understand the simplest of memes lmao
Edit- Thanks for 100 likes!

[LFSPharaoh]

That video description is something else lol "You reach the 9th rank. You flag IRL. "

[sillychinas]

Almost every move is winning, but the one Hikaru said first (Qh7) only nets a +1 advantage

[kyleoren]

Hikaru premoved this video 411 years ago

[peterbago]

How can you picture this in your head?? I could until move 6 then it fell apart.

[thepronoob]

Power of chikaru hakamura


No dislikes in an hour.

[eggyolk]

Tfw you check the line and hikaru's move was wrong(or well, only has a +1 advantage to the other moves +7).

[AtulSharma-gyxg]

i still do not understand how he cant beat magnus ! magnus must be a god.

[legueu]

The description is as good as the clip.