"I have anal beads that are communicating with stockfish via Bluetooth we'll get to that if you cheat you play God you decide when the game is over you can fake bad moves you can fake everything you ca..."

"you're known for being able to guess people's ELO rating so what do you think just by looking at my face deep into my eyes uh what's my ELO rating here I'll help you I'll I'll do E4 for the listener I..."

"I would say what's chess.com what's lead chess can you like yeah so explain what the difference is and what they are they're two chess websites uh good starting point yes chess.com is it it has obviou..."

"offer International masters Grand Masters the opportunity to make video Lesson libraries which hundreds of hours of anything I can even learn some stuff on there probably I have anal beads that are co..."

"to zero to 900 if you're a 1300 player you were saying if you're not good at end games you don't understand how to convert positions that have seven or eight pieces left on the board you don't know wh..."

"open source website that tries to be as free as possible and operates totally on donations they don't have any advertisements they don't have which is weird because normally in big competitive setting..."

"folks only chess folks on leechas are like you know there's a memechess.com it started at Lee chess started started somewhere in red on Reddit Anarchy chess kind of a oh so leeches is a little bit of ..."

"exactly the same thing but they have the they're trying to match for features but you're saying lead chest is more chaotic and then chess.com is more like professional yeah I don't know I don't know i..."

"got it and then play Magnus it's an app also where you can play Max different levels but there's also the educational stuff yes okay the for-profit chess companies make the option for Grand Masters to..."

"game if you don't know what the hell you're doing with the end game what does that mean about you writing if you don't know how to finish with just a few pieces on the board you could be my rating and..."

"time meaning like you're moving like the pieces are like tied together in interesting ways and then okay okay like what about like uh what about the opening can you tell also because a lot of people c..."

"force yourself yeah so you can like given that you've guessed a lot of Elo ratings can you kind of emulate that it's kind of an interesting question yeah yeah of course before I was doing YouTube and ..."

"and also love of the game so if you're bored you don't want to watch a show you want to boot up chess.com or leeches just for just so I don't get flamed by any anyone in the audience uh and you just s..."

"definitely have a talent of course there's this eternal debate Talent versus hard work I don't necessarily know if it's a talent for chess specifically but it's a talent for I'm sure there's some sort..."

"handle there's also trash dog that's like one sentence by a kid can throw off your prize student and I've seen kids just totally disintegrate I've seen also my students bully other kids corn my studen..."

"inaccuracy and now the tide shifts right we could be on totally different planes throughout the game or we could be on the same plane throughout the game so it's it's really fascinating it yeah so you..."

"you think makes them if we can sort of link on it what do you think makes them so good I think it's the memory and I think it's he just seems to get the game better than anybody else that's the best w..."

"wow so even the end games are tough for stockfish which is why Magnus won that game because there was practical value remaining it wasn't a dead draw he continued to ask questions over the course of s..."

"that's the truth especially when the game itself is not that exciting when Magnus plays a strange move on move nine or ten that hasn't ever been played and then Jan has to try to exploit it and he fai..."

"at least Magnus said that that that ends it because now Knapp was gonna have to take more risks and that opens it up to Pure chest and then um who was it uh Steve Prefontaine said like whenever it's w..."

"stable unemotional chess players and ding oftentimes goes from down to up so in the candidates he lost to yawn in the very first game a 14 Round tournament he got demolished in the first game I'm sure..."

"part-time romance yeah yeah so what I mean what what do you feel about Magnus stepping away from the world championships disappointing but understandable can you still man his case what what's what's ..."

"in fact the world championship of Chess prize fund has not changed much in like 40 years so you could probably make more money on uh on YouTube yes playing randos not randos but other having fun and p..."

"this year yeah yeah neither it's it's really strange I'm not sure why that is when during covid I'm not sure that's that was weird I don't know if it's losing its magic part of it is also the people t..."

"you name it they were they were basically involved and to to go back to that point yeah I the big question is money and if if Magnus is not motivated by money if the price went for the next World Cham..."

"all time can you can you make the case imagine casparov can make the case for casparov can you make the case for Magnus Carlsen uh Bobby Fischer tall in my opinion you can make a case for Magnus Gary ..."

"September so he beat him twice right recently once is the allegations the by the internet that Hans Neiman cheated and then the second time uh Magnus played a few moves and forfeited and resigned well..."

"I in June like May June 2020 I had no subscribers so I got to a million in a year I had a lot of people analyzing my every move all of my small flaws and I I love getting hate comments because you pin..."

"very much a human being and my guilty pleasure my way of killing time if I'm not laying on the couch and playing some jazz Blitz Games off stream is I just interact with people who say nice things and..."

"and understand the lives of the the folks that post that kind of stuff I mean they're human beings they have interesting Journeys also I think they often don't realize I think they don't realize their..."

"then used like responded something like with a question mark yeah yeah I wrote wow my lame guests let's talk about this yeah I was like why am I a lame guest and he responded he responded even after y..."

"I've seen people say that sometimes about me but I see it more with others they'll say uh you know I used to be like Joe Rogan guess this uh yeah I used to be a huge fan of Joe Rogan until he said thi..."

"you're still you're still full like complex bag of emotions and thoughts and ideas and contradictions and all that like you shouldn't judge a person by a single statement and even if when you do you s..."

"like walking with an idea and allowing yourself to express it like playing doubles out I do that all the time with yourself or with myself yeah in conversation I do too and I find I have to say I'm pl..."

"and some of that will bleed out into the thoughts I expressed publicly and um like when people judge you harshly for it it first of all me as a human being is psychologically difficult uh but also it ..."

"big responsibility because you have to absorb information like a sponge but you also then need to present it in a way where you potentially have an opinion while trying to be fair to everybody and you..."

"it doesn't hit as hard no if you had a podcast about anal beads no I'm just I'm launching this if you had a podcast watching a new podcast photography you gotta you gotta realize like it wouldn't it w..."

"each other a chance so in that sense the negativity doesn't have to be about Ukraine or geopolitics it could be about the silliest of things I said and like to me it's like why why be mean to each oth..."

"anybody up I was Tiny I think the kid in the younger grade was bigger than I was and he still broke him because I was an ass yeah I so I had to use my mental Warfare I had to use my words I had to be ..."

"whole Indonesia thing oh this is good I was just gonna give the anarchist and Lee chess all right let's go what's the Indonesian things yeah the way you said okay maybe we don't want to talk about it ..."

"publicly on stream and uh guy got banned it was cheater so that night oh right before I'm going to sleep because Indonesia is 12 hours ahead of New York go my Twitter what the hell is going on I see h..."

"to rape my family they were going to they were contacting people I followed on Instagram they were contacting them and telling them crazy things it was I'm not joking it was tens of thousands of peopl..."

"in a row at 95 accuracy I mean even Magnus can't do that even you know uh this took a month this story took one month from start to finish first I had to work with a like a media company to geo-block ..."

"my content I I just didn't I didn't care how much money I was uh going to give away per month but so why geo block it you just didn't like the the downboarding yeah I didn't want you wanted positivity..."

"be honest maybe all of the views and the downvotes out of would have actually been beneficial maybe I mean my videos would have actually started getting recommended to more people yeah but I'm a perso..."

"like to say The Joe Rogan of Indonesia yeah Daddy corbosier is this Mentalist he's a bald guy very fun guy he had them and that's when the Indonesian Chess Federation stepped in the thing is nobody wh..."

"that was why I had to shut down all of my social media to DMS and DM requests and even notifications like I don't get notifications unless it's someone I follow but see stuff like that doesn't often g..."

"completely blown out of proportion you have to be real careful and I can't actively think about that unfortunately even when I'm streaming I've had other instances where things come back to bite I've ..."

"place and again so it all comes back to this one-on-one thing for me because I'm a human I would hate to put another person into that situation if I would much rather get a drink with somebody than th..."

"of the things we discussed just here before recording which I'm also I've talked about this on stream I'm very open with this type of stuff is over the I think for me a lot of that comes down to just ..."

"don't say stuff like that like ridiculous you don't say ridiculous shit about yourself oh I do that I do I do and you don't feel like that could be made isn't this the same guy that said X maybe maybe..."

"sense that there's not enough motivation for people to attack you you're ultimately adding a lot of positive stuff to the world and when you get into more political topics there's people there who are..."

"a Creator on YouTube and so on on Twitch yeah um when you talked about retiring you I think you tweeted about retiring from chess give me the video Yeah and tweeted um it's my values of the world the ..."

"is beyond repair I physically and emotionally cannot do it anymore what was the hardest thing uh what was the hardest thing about competing like can you can you elaborate on that yeah I think it's sep..."

"like good moves did not feel as good as how bad bad moves felt and bad moments and and underneath that you're saying there's a sense that I did not prepare well enough one unquestionably so my I'm an ..."

"maybe I would have been a grand master but that's that's life right and I would come back to Chess at various points in my life when I felt more mature I felt more ready and I felt more motivated I wa..."

"ever worked at all one minute on anything I just played Speed games online and and what did he did he speak the truth there like could you have worked more I could have worked more for sure yeah absol..."

"possible experiencing every moment as intensely as possible because eventually there'll be a last moment and after that there'll be no more moments that's sort of what I do yeah might try to Channel a..."

"I what do you think happens after we die oh man no that's a rhetorical question what were we talking about Grandmaster Grandmaster so uh how hard is it to reach what are the what are the requirements ..."

"international Mastery you mentioned a few requirements and so on yes so the first one is you have to know how to use a sure mic and an arm um slowly you were impressed by this your microphone by the w..."

"fancy yeah this looks a little I know this one's great it sounds really really good and I told you before that I wanted to use it but it requires a external dashboard of some sort and I'm way too lazy..."

"um like play Skyrim I like I love playing Skyrim I actually love the idea I haven't done that yet but apparently in Skyrim you can turn off the monsters you could just walk around so I love the idea o..."

"also music something peaceful it's like old-timey uh medieval type of music and just the trees like the wind like you could and then there's in in the distance there's the mountains and you can like y..."

"shooting and uh objective yeah yeah I've played OverWatch on stream it's the it's the only video game I actually played a lot and got decent at and I couldn't play it on stream anymore because my team..."

"kids these days with their with their mean language on the internet like you want to kind of adapt to the different communities but at the same time there is there's lines that you can cross right lik..."

"territory of I mean because I've been reading a lot on Hitler and and Stalin and so on and you'll see those kinds of topics come up in that community and it's like oof they have a very different persp..."

"there's something that happens in video games where you're like well this is not reality the same kind of things happens in war well the people on the other side aren't really human it does become a k..."

"quite close and but I think the community then extends to social media some of them are intense but who isn't and I think I think they Foster a more or less kind of good group of folks but no I I comp..."

"like they they they they start to realize the weight of their words like that's my hope but we're all trying to figure that out how the internet has changed youth like easy access to porn easy access ..."

"some of those signals kids these days with their internet I had to go through this it's kind of what I what I mentioned so I I didn't have two divorced my parents were divorced I didn't have uh two ho..."

"yeah Mom so step siblings yeah there and there new people there and there extended family there and there and also at Grandma's where I would come anytime I had a conflict and when I was 12 and 13 and..."

"that was the way I lived for some of the most important developmental years of my life and who knows if I had too much of what we're describing one sprinkle of this too much one sprinkle of this too m..."

"state I don't even remember some of like those moments but it's almost like a different person yeah that's exactly how it feels but I I remember I had a big video game addiction just like most teenage..."

"somehow got older and started getting more independent and stopped playing video games and to be honest with you I I would love to sit here and say I have some sort of logical explanation of why I am ..."

"was I was gonna fight this kid because I was 14. you know he stole my basketball of course I'm gonna fight this kid this kid was like 12 he had a pierced tongue yeah like this wasn't a joke yeah this ..."

"many points you have he played nine grand Masters which is crazy that means he was performing so well so consistently that was where he got his first I am Norm it's like oh here it is here comes that ..."

"American guy who shit talks every time he's on camera and he beats everybody he plays but then you start hearing sprinkles here and there maybe in some stream I think he he doesn't he doesn't get to p..."

"explicit that the accusation and I think it's proven but they're still being shady about it to the degree is done is that he cheated on chess.com when he was 12. 12 and 16. that's what he says but he ..."

"think with my evil cap now what would happen if I'd rather you have the evil cup than Hikaru because I feel like he would really you know the power absolutely if the two of you ruled the world it'd be..."

"line when he was 12 and 16. yes but for timeline's sake let's just let's just do it this way he has a lot of over-the-board success but nobody really talks about the online cheating stuff it's sort of..."

"argue you can argue it's cringe you can argue I thought it was cool and then the guy then keeps asking a question of his arm extended because he's so shocked he doesn't know what to do like he didn't ..."

"yeah so it's it's not it wasn't it wouldn't even be a worthy question no I'm not you you don't know maybe Magnus already kind of knew a lot of the top players it seems are coming out now and saying we..."

"don't know why he couldn't come but he couldn't come okay something happens he can't make it Hans Neiman is the replacement yeah at the time we didn't know this but now weeks later we knew Magnus want..."

"some inaccuracies here and there and he ended up winning in a complex game because game three happens versus uh versus Magnus and not only does he beat Magnus with the black pieces he dominates him fr..."

"have beaten other players then he goes and gives this interview which where he claims that he had looked at those first 15 20 moves right before the game basically he got lucky didn't he say he looked..."

"but it also doesn't for me again a very outside spectator it doesn't raise any red flags that's just his personality he seems to really like to talk this way and plus this could be crazy uh but do you..."

"stupid because Magnus knows like five people not in not in his life but his team is fine that's very close in that group right but to The Outsider that sounds like a very legitimate Theory how could h..."

"that like so you still you you lose that game counts right you lose the rating all these online events unfortunately don't count for any sort of rating uh but on the tournament yeah you play one move ..."

"well well over the I see so not just over the board with the top level people like Magnus but over the board in general uh yes before he got a chance to play in these super tournaments against the bes..."

"mean similar to Bobby Fischer is also a tortured Soul also flawed also just chaotic all over the place you could see Bobby Fischer being somebody that might cheat when he was 12. right on the online c..."

"I don't even know to who ultimately I guess it would be the feed a cheating anti-sheating commission or whatever it might be to you essentially I mean to people with the platform it could be to presen..."

"start being like yeah it looks you know so but at the same time you deeply care about Chess and the chess community and there's some sense where was it you as a Magnus that said that cheating poses an..."

"was expecting when I did this I haven't seen this before oh this this is I don't have one off the top of my head but it's just that Kanye Kim Kardashian breaking up that would use that streamers music..."

"Magnus because good bad I I don't we've never interacted I very openly I don't want to say use him for views because that is a very crude way of saying it yeah but if you wanted to insult my YouTube c..."

"click on it the best yeah but I don't know what the chicken or the egg is but the reason it loves it the reason people click on it is because he is an exciting personality he's an exciting chess playe..."

"when I was smaller as a YouTuber in a twitch streamer I'm sure I used to make jokes or some tweets at Magnus like when Magnus would tweet something I would try to respond so I could be the top reply b..."

"humility and self-critical nature but one of the um the realities with people like him is he does he wouldn't hold a grudge or not treat you seriously um I'm pretty sure he's a he's a fan and he's a b..."

"person and on this particular aspect have been very objective effective I understand that I'm nowhere near perfect I don't I'm not a different person on camera off camera I will say it like it is mayb..."

"preemptively say something like you might think I'm some idiot you might not be totally wrong yes but like I think this would be a good conversation and give it a shot and I've been surprised that I'v..."

"chess players and Legion of fans that were long-time chess fans and I mentioned them very briefly in a YouTube video and that little clip went into their next Community event and the founder of the ch..."

"been very surprised in all walks of life like um you know this this really gets me this makes me happy honestly because um like people ask me like how I get guests and so on and it just seems honestly..."

"that's like factual I don't know if some influencer has some podcasts but you guys interview folks that I listen to more more often than anybody else and when Magnus came on I was like oh this is that..."

"YouTube is beautiful I don't know anything about twitch um maybe it's similar to know anything about it but YouTube has ruined you there is an intimacy like especially if it's live I don't know what t..."

"anal bees this whole time that's how he got it yes yes uh I love that so much okay but anyway uh there's a I will I quickly realized that there is I I have to admit that I know not much about sex toys..."

"yeah but I was thinking about doing it I was thinking about doing it at first I said no it's just kind of feels dirty but then the the aforementioned uh friend said no you should definitely do it I'm ..."

"like I don't have you followed how big the traction got on this anal beads thing no it was covered by every major News Network late night talk show Trevor Noah Stephen Colbert no international news in..."

"can show that it is possible to theoretically vibrate via Bluetooth chess moves and if someone shoves it up their ass what that was another joke okay they offered you to play naked they're gonna make ..."

"are around before the chess boom so the chest is the chest subreddit sorry yeah yeah so a lot of them have been around for five years seven years ten years even more and I think the average age on Red..."

"to change and you add something like cryptocurrency sponsorship which people on Reddit just in general are relatively negative on the subject is going to start you know snowballing more and more so if..."

"and then if I make two videos that underperform the rest of the videos don't get pushed out as much your earnings can go down 40 day to day which doesn't happen in other careers and if I ever want to ..."

"people to click on it by any means necessary but once they're there have quality stuff they can learn and yeah yeah man I wish so I I have zero those pressures but I also really really uh like I turn ..."

"chess box against Eric Rosen this is a question from Reddit chessbox you uh you said your your hands are all messed up yeah yeah you're training for something or a regular like so I also just remember..."

"right isn't this a thing in in Russia it's a big thing in the UK UK yeah UK I don't I don't know why and there's a lot of YouTuber events just for boxing so YouTubers just learn to box and then they j..."

"so what you're saying is you're gonna fuck up your car it's UTC training I'm not I'm not fighting so I talked to Eric about it and the truth is we're both concerned about head trauma I haven't actuall..."

"one I think Magnus is in better physical shape he's also a little bit bigger I think than Hikaru a lot of reach I think he carves a dog though I think I think he'll I don't think he's gonna he's gonna..."

"yeah just swing like crazy honestly I just love to see that which is like the effect of physical exertion on the on the game I think it's I'm sure they're strong enough to yes but I think we definitel..."

"imagine head this must be no I mean it gets I mean it's a different thing I mean of course your skin gets tougher everything gets tougher so it gets used to it the head the head is a weird one because..."

"play a lot of people prefer playing Bots because they have anxiety playing other humans it's a very legitimate thing interesting a lot of beginners they don't like live chess they get nervous yellow a..."

"and this problem extends further because Advanced Bots will play an opening completely reasonably and let's just hang a rook which okay maybe happens but that's not exactly how you get to 1800 at 1800..."

"the craziest thing is I did that a couple of my of my devs were helping me with the build like uh I'm scaling my courses into a better chess learning platform essentially we've done a lot of different..."

"full tank of servers and I think stockfish wasn't which I think is what one of the things people point out they weren't playing since then they were able to demonstrate much less yeah uh but also Alph..."

"incredible and obviously that inspired the modern stockfish yeah now to do the same all the same kind of self-play methods uh somebody on Reddit asked a pretty interesting question I don't know if you..."

"like that but because it's an engine move but because Magnus is playing so they they mixed kind of two things but there's interesting levels of humor and uh insight there on both of those yeah the dif..."

"that initial thing but the second thing about computer moves is they they look counter-intuitive so that's a if you might be in a position where it looks like the demands of the position are ABC and t..."

"that doesn't involve violence yeah it's a serious thing and it's a thing that inspires millions of people and it's a testing ground for intelligent systems that eventually uh take over human civilizat..."

"play against each other in either bad openings or like some of the most popular gambits looking looking at something like that um and the way I'm going to do this is basically say which chess gambits ..."

"and now you have to decide what you're gonna do with your center point you can push take or defend it and uh push take or defend right yeah uh what would you suggest take is the the worst take is just..."

"yes that's the best move but not at 99 of the rating ladder which is funny interesting um but you like to play this I play this against GMS I play both I move my Bishop I push it and you know what are..."

"0.05 percent of the time which is crazy thousands of games and it's supposed to be not good meaning it allows black to equalize because that's what black is going for it's not winning the game but equ..."

"[Laughter] sure but like bang is just hilarious I mean when he talks about his rating he's like that's pretty good when he talks about how good he's this Pokemon I suck but you know I think that self-..."

"like and that transfers to AI systems in general like Like A system that plays weak just to to fool you for people who uh are trying to get better at chess beginners or um at any stage of their develo..."

"about getting better Except watch did you of course watch my videos check out chastity.com that's where we're going to scale the courses too uh but no on a serious note you have to be prepared to lose..."

"get better I show up to the boxing gym one day I move my hips better yeah and my I would do Shadow Boxing uh Sensei goes you're moving your feed better today you got better I'm like I didn't practice ..."

"and probably add to that is just put a lot of hours in of having fun but then then I I on that Perpetual chess podcast I listened to somebody that say like it doesn't like Puzzles none of that what ma..."

"house I wasn't going to run away I still had a roof over my head so I'm not not saying I had a better or worse than others I just had a different uh and actually recently this is much more on my memor..."

"yeah in New York for for safety and we're away from things and we have our own nice little Nook and somewhere some months into it I started hearing noises from above our neighbors and it started in th..."

"exist like it's not that I it wasn't suicide but you know the feeling of just you want to just observe yourself from a distance yeah and I couldn't sleep I thought my wife was gonna leave me like this..."

"brain just goes in circles basically about things that you've done or haven't done it's funny because noise can do that also so no the noise was real but it was building in your head yeah so I I try t..."

"and honest when I'm tired I'm tired it's what makes my recaps of my tournaments I think so real yeah man you're an incredible person I've been a fan for a long time it's kind of funny that we connecte..."