WINNING A CHESS TOURNAMENT?!
31.12.2023
I am back competing at otb chess and I’m so excited!! I’m playing Rilton Elo, which is a tournament in Stockholm for people under 2200 and my goal is to win the whole thing 😀 this is the recap of round 3 – hope you enjoy!!
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Your mommys reaction was EVERYTHING!!
0:05 Here she is!😃
Great following this on New Year's Eve, from Port Edward, South Africa. Very educational and a great show!
It was a fantastic game! Your mother do a great job to!
Your mom's reaction to b4 made my whole weekend!
Great game
❤
hope you beat Magnus Carlson one day
Awesome! I missed the end of the Twitch stream glad you won.
Shenanigans: silly behavior that is usually not very serious or harmful.
Good luck! Way to go!
great game, good luck in round 5! i am enjoying the recaps
"he was super happy about this"
zoom on his deep frown
gg and good luck for tomorrow!
marry me <3
Seeing your explanation of this game made me feel very happy. I agree your win was beautiful. Well done and thank you.
Well played! Eye of the Tiger! Very pleasing to watch. Cheers, FREE.
Congrats Anna! Great Game!
… wait it was hilarious that now Anna's community has tricked her into thinking "shenanigans" is a chess term??
good girl, congrats!!
I actually didn't realize Anna has never won a tournament before. I thought she was in a similar boat as Alex, where she had won youth tournaments which prompted her to take off in her career and then got kinda stuck.
I guess youth chess in sweden was a lot more competitive than in Canada, which makes sense….
…1g5 & you won't need luck
I love these match replays, very fun and informative. Nice touch adding your mom's reactions. Good luck in the coming matches!
Congrats!! "… the Anna Cramling thing …", LOL. Nice to see a gracious loser too. Tip of the hat to you, sir.
Benko gambit. Black loves the have open files on the queenside, a fichetto black bishop and trading the lights.
Very nice!! After Rf7, I think Ra8+, NxR, RxR, if you had wanted
omg your mom is so amazing
i love your vids and sharing of your stuff so much
love from canada
xoxo
Good luck 🍀
Nice game!
Let's goooooooo!!!
go Anna!
Enhorabuena, Anna. Una idea que ojalá te ayude: has empezado a sacar conejos de la chistera cuando te has concentrado en el juego y te has olvidado de las caras que
ponía el otro y de si se había preprarado algún antídoto antikramling. Lo que lleve el otro preparado no lo puedes controlar. No depende de ti. Lo que depende de ti es jugar como sabes, muy bien cuando juegas relajada, con mucha creatividad, como cuando juegas en el club de Coffee Chess o en Washington Square Park. Así es como das lo mejor de ti. Y si tu adversario te gana a pesar de todo, se le da la mano y a por la siguiente partida. Cuando juegas agarrotada pensando más en el rival o en qué pensarán tus padres que en el juego, también ganas y pierdes, pero sin tu frescura, y creatividad, sin ser tú misma. Mejor perder orgullosa de haber sido tú misma que ganar estresada de tanto pensar en qué pensarán los demás. Un abrazo, y muy feliz 2024. Por cierto, eso de que juguéis mañana a las 12h en vez de a las 15h “porque es añonuevo”, oído desde España suena surrealista. Debe de ser una forma muy sueca, muy contenida y moderada, de celebrar tanto la nochevieja como el añonuevo. ¡Todos a la cama después de las uvas! 😉 Espero que te permitas celebrarlo un poquito más. Te ayudará a jugar más suelta, seguro. Mucha suerte y a por ese torneo.
These days I have no one with whom to play chess, so I really enjoy watching you play! I expected you would play well in this tournament, and I was right. I'm going to be very happy when you win your section! ♟️
Your videos that show your thinking and possible moves are a great teacher.
Well done – love your enthusiasm and your mums reactions too. Keep it up
Pia's reaction after you play b4 is so wholesome and so honest. It's really inspiring to see how supportive your parents are and how proud they are of you ❤
Also it was a really good game! I think you have many chances of winning this tournament! Keep it up!!
Dear Anna today I subscribe to your channel. I did not want to because I spent way too much time on YT but
YT keeps on proposing your videos and I 👍 so much of them
Your content is so original and interesting
You spread so much joy and and beautiful light on the chess game
I wish you the best for this tournament and for 2024
love you r mum =D
hahaha your mom's reaction is everything! she was so proud you actually found the best move in less than 40 mins 😂
Great game by both players. Nice sportsmanship by Peter.
What a beautiful game.
You made so many strong moves which were not easy to see.
Your mom would love and be proud of you even if you had missed the crushing moves. But it was a joy to see her realize that you are now seeing the great moves much more often. Sometimes by thinking very hard, sometimes just by instinctively seeing them, calculating the crushing line, and not needing to consider other lines when you find one crushing line.
I think I will step through this game with an engine, and see whether any of the alternative moves I probably would have made, were any good. For instance, around when you did Qh5+, which I considered but was leaning against doing, I was considering a pawn sac with b6 followed by Bb5+ to get that bishop into the fight while looking to boot his knight also.
It is OK to do the "Anna Cramling thing" using a dangerous amount of time, when you do find the crushing line. Yet, please keep working on choosing when that is wise or unwise to try, because there will be times when you don't find a great move (often because it doesn't exist at that moment) and you will miss finding great moves later, due to lack of time.
Sometimes, you need to just keep the time fairly even, while surviving until a number of small inaccuracies by an opponent, create an opportunity for you 5 or 6 moves later to find a way to exploit that.
We all want to absolutely control the game at every moment, but we are human and all make inaccurate moves. Statistically, against an equal opponent, it is a coin flip whether we or they will be more inaccurate over the next (choose any number of) moves. If we spend time debating between almost equal moves when no superior move is there, we guarantee that they have more time for the next several moves, and it is no longer a coin flip as to who will be more inaccurate, we usually will be.
I struggle with this myself. Hindsight is 20/20 in any particular game, wishing we'd spent more time on move 19 rather than move 14 or whatever. Luckily, opponents are human also. Survive for enough moves for them to make some mistakes.
The streams where Pia comments the games are so next level. Best format I’ve watched on Twitch all year. That joy & excitement when Anna finds the best moves. The anxiety around time control. Overall a true 💯 experience
Nicely done. good fortune tomorrow
Brava!
Great game, Anna. Congratulations ! 🙂
This is a great example of how psychology can play a huge role in chess, especially in lower rated events. Loved the commentary around how Bb7 felt like it must be good simply because he played it confidently, but in reality it was a blunder
OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I love your mom. I am sure all your followers do too. She is the best. and the truth is, she raised you to be the best too. of course, it was collaboration with your dad.
Here is a 2,077 word AI assisted article summarizing the chess game analysis by Anna Cramling:
The Thrilling Comeback: How I Beat a 1900 Player After Falling Behind in the Opening
Introduction
In this chess game analysis, Woman Grandmaster Anna Cramling provides an in-depth walkthrough of her round 4 game at a tournament in Sweden. Going into the game at 3/4 points, Anna knew she was up against a strong 1900 rated player who had impressive recent results. After struggling in the opening and falling behind on time, Anna slowly turned the game around thanks to strong strategic play and eventually won with a beautiful checkmate combination.
Key Points:
0:46 – Anna's goal for the tournament is to win it. She's currently ranked #7 out of over 200 players. Beating her 1900 rated opponent today would put her at 3.5/4 points, a great score.
1:29 – Anna expected her opponent to play the Nimzo Indian but instead he played the Banco Gambit, indicating he likely prepared something against Anna specifically. This made her nervous.
2:05 – After her opponent quickly plays several book moves, Anna spends 20 minutes thinking trying to get out of his preparation.
3:25 – Anna goes for an interesting pawn break (e4) which turns out to be an inaccuracy. Her opponent quickly plays the best move (Bb7) but Anna thinks it's still theory.
4:48 – After missing her opponent's huge blunder, Anna eventually gains a strategic advantage based on her opponent's weak dark squares and badly coordinated pieces.
8:23 – Anna feels confident she's now pushing for the win. Her opponent is low on time and starts showing signs of frustration.
10:03 – Anna plays an aggressive pawn break (f5) sacrificing her knight, believing she has a winning attack against her opponent's exposed king.
11:42 – In a complex position, Anna's opponent manages to give back some material and set up dangerous passed pawns, but Anna maintains an extra exchange (rook for knight+bishop).
13:40 – With precise rook maneuvers in the endgame, Anna consolidates her extra material and eventually forces checkmate with her heavy pieces crowded around her opponent's king.
Conclusion
Through tenacious defense and timely counterattacking chess, Anna was able to slowly grind her higher rated opponent down in a long 6 hour game. Anna showed tremendous determination and precision in the endgame to convert her positional advantage. This impressive win put her near the top of the leaderboard as she aims win her first major tournament.
Great game!
Winning or not.. Im Just proud of you how much afford you put into chess and how much fun you have. And I love to see how proud your mom is to you. 🙂
Love you Anna!