xQc Unlocks Full Potential Against Negreanu!
@xQcOW takes on Daniel Negreanu in #PogChamps3 and unlocks levels of power we didn't even know possible.
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More like Xqc unlocks value of IQ higher than 3
This is just so awesome for chess, for the development of the participants, for the audience and the future chess players who see their favorite streamer playing. I cannot imagine how positive the effect will be for the future - thousands of excited watchers seeing these star personalities develop a joy for the game. It's bloody contagious. What's more, to see the improvement of these players just brings a smile to my face. Chess, aside from being a beautiful game, can be intimidating to the journeyman. Watching these famous players venture bravely into the game, make mistakes, make great moves, learn, improve, and pursue excellence is precisely what the game is about. It's a life lesson in a way, and something in which everyone should find beauty. I cannot believe there is a part of the chess elite that insults these people. It's just reprehensible. Pogchamps is a great reflection of how the layman plays chess - and this lets the everyman embody themselves in the game, and find interest in its beauty. Keep at it. This is awesome.
Cum bă să folosești "buyakasha" in 2021? Cum?
As someone who doesn't like chess much, i like pogchamps. People play moves that i can understand, and you never know the outcome of a game in advance, even if someone has a good lead over his opponent. And the fact that players are known streamers, and/or minor celebrities, is entertaining in itself.
I like how she is an IM and not a WGM
"Let's listen into Daniel's stream, see if he's spotted it..." "Fuck! FUCK!" "... I think he's spotted it..."
Suspicious 🤔
3:25 moist critikal?
I think that xqc's intuitive/unorthodox playstyle will throw off all the theoretical/logical players.
grand master does have a good ring to xQc
15:30 how dare you say that she can win against the Gm Cow?
These people don't lose to skill as much as they do to tension.
Forget about the chess skill, that man’s energy is unmatched lmao
Chess Wars: The Rise of the El Goblino
Ah yes. The infamous wooden sheild by gm xQc
amazing thumbnail
it was sweet seeing anna talking about xqc and his improvements (:
Honestly I think that Negreanu wasn't focusing enough. He doesn't draw arrows to show what he's doing. So it's hard to tell what he's doing half the time and it also makes it hard that we don't know what hes looking at. I bet that if he drew arrows, and also looked at his developed pieces more, he would. win that match against xqc.
Never resign against XQC.
Not even final form i bet.
I just kept thinking, how does the poker player consistently tilt worse than any other player in the tournament? He loses one piece and his face is like twitching and he goes full kamikaze. How does that work for him at his day job!? 😂
BTW total respect to DNegs as a god-tier poker player, just kind of confusing to see this aspect of his chess game. It would be reasonable to expect him to be an ice-cold player, win or lose.
6 moves to 6-0 FeelsStrongMan
LET EM KNOW 💥 LET EM KNOW 💥 LET EM KNOW 💥
The nifty thing tellingly mug because bra randomly shave versus a mushy jute. abashed, wooden yogurt
wat
I would have been interested to try black the position after Qxb5+ Bc6 against an opponent of my strength. Two bishops and rook for the queen super good; good king safety after castling, just a bit scared of the queenside pawns
Ali G
I will miss xQc being so bad at chess :(
For me xQc is a favourite!
I hope he beats Charlie if he ever gets a rematch.
Negative Talent BTW
Negreanu's needs to re-evaluate his mic setup
This is what training tactics does. Then in games when you're lucky to stumble into one and notice it too you collect.
"Moist Critikal" 3:25
I know its not true chess and none of these players are masters. That said pogchamps is some of the greatest chess ive ever seen. Overhyping the unhypable to such a degree. Playing not the best but the worst and showing pure determination and skill without even having the skills masters have is one of the greatest things i love about chess. Every game is a sandbox for a new game.
xQc improved so much, i always thought hikaru was just beeing nice when talking about xQcs good instincts but mb he has a point. I still think pokemane might be the most naturally talented player in the tournament tho
yeah she s very smart with very good memory its astonish me how fast she learned, then i discovered that she s an engeneer student maybe that help.
Longtime viewers will remember daniel negreanu from pretty good poker
The winner’s bracket players played out of their minds the final is going to be crazy
Daniel sucks 😂
Negraneu looks like walter white in the thumbnail
LET EM KNOW EZ
fr anime redemption arc
I've never seen such a cocky 1000 rated noob
Ironically this comment reeks of arrogance.
Charlie?
What's your rating?
My streamer xqcL
Can you Tell me how 0:54 the pawn dissapears ??? What happened was it a bug or ??
Dont know well from this cuts but proably dnegpoker made a premove and took a pawn
Aaah thank you 😃
En passant 🇫🇷🥐
En Passant
Sorry more like 0:52
bing bung bing bang bang
xQc: The journey of a man from pepega to 5head
If xqc survives the opening against sardoche, he wins the whole thing.
@DonFreeq "6"-th? Was that on purpose
He is 6-th strongest player in my book so no idea why would he. Sardoche is 4-th despite his highest rating.
If I had become a chess meme and a subject of derision thanks to the msot viewed chess clip of 2020 by losing in 6 moves, I'd have quit chess. Instead XqC just kept going and now he's actually a decent player, undefeated 6-0 in Pogchamps 3. That's an anime redemption arc if I ever saw one.
I'm pretty sure there's a clip called 'chess king sacrifice' which has more views but I get your point
Xqc will probably play against benjyfishy
5:21 LMAO what??
the bing bang boom strat is op!
ez
Daniel seems like a nice guy with his blue glasses
His late game is absolutely insane.
I really hope the xqc will win until he and Charlie meet again, it will be epic revenge of grandmaster xqcL
Redemption Arc of Mr. Cow FeelsStrongMan Clap
I love this man
Now I wanna see him rematch Charlie. He'll give the throbber a good fight this time
Daniel was in a downward spiral. That's the reason he resigned early, he believed that the position was lost and that he can't do anything about it. Anyone who has been in a chess tournament knows this feeling, you can see it in his queen blunder when he took the bishop on e5. You can see it in his face, after the check 8:31. He believed he was lost that's why he didn't see the bishop block on c6 after the queen check.
Add this to his first lost using the danish gambit that xQc handled well, he is in a must win but he blundered. His morale plummeted to the ground.
Imagine if X started playing chess when he was 5 or 6 years old and stuck with it. He has the sharp wit of a chess player with his board vision and calculations I wouldn't have been surprised if he was an IM in a different timeline where he never gave up on chess when he was young.
@Y M ye, and then he would be banned from participating in chess tournaments for spamming Tryhard 7, came to twitch and became variety pepega, playing ow just for fun
We probably wouldn't even know him then
But then he would never have become an Overwatch pro and chess is very time consuming, travelling to international tournaments etc.
So... Mr. Cow?
Why would Daniel resign with double his time 😫
@Mike Hunt can xQc mate in 1 minute though?
position was lost
It is hilarious that XQC goes full ultra instinct mode in the middle to end-game as if he is raising his elo rating each move building to the juicer climax. It is mostly his insane intuition gut feelings because he will always find the best moves but his drawback is second guessing and doubting that it will work. He needs to make snap decisions and not burn the clock. YEP.
Epic DBZ clickbait tho
from 6 moves to 6-0, proud of you Felix. This is truly the redemption arc xqcL LinusFace
I'll be disappointed if we don't see Charlie vs xQc in pogchamps 3
In chess the slightest bit of inattention can ruin your game.
Everybody Gangsta till they get "BING BANG BOOM"
Everybody"s ganster untill xqc gets to middle game.
@Ondrej Tomasek Ah cool to see that people are finding Hikaru through xQc and also vice versa. You're always welcome to become a juicer xqcL (just ignore the PepePains and haHAA edgy kids and his community isnt that bad...)
@xnlg Not really a xqc fan. But I got to know him through chess and Hikaru.
@Ondrej Tomasek radiohead and xqc fan? PogU xqcL
Yeah if he manges to get over the first ten moves 1 move checkmate threats, then he's pretty good :D
9000? More like-.......😂
At 2:55 xqc plays qe5 and sees b2 (lol) but not h2? Hmmmmmmm......
6 move to 6-0
Redemption arc for xqc is coming along well. 6-0 Everyone waiting for the rematch moist vs xqc
@yezylol *semifinals.
@yezylol best timeline
It sadly won't happen unless they both make it to the grand finals
Holy shit i just realized hes 6-0. Damn x pipes is getting stronger and better
Yeahhh lest go xqc vs moist
I cant wait for xqc and sardoche's postgame French banter
Today was a good day for the Pogchamps.
XQC unlocks the sharingan
God I love this thumbnail! It has gone even further what were already great thumbnails!
Bing bang boom Chicka Wow Wow
Anna really called him "grandmaster xqc" 😂
@Pedro Briggs using alts on youtube to advertise sketchy shit. Weirdchamp Delete your channel and never make one again.
Sweet site! doesn't look very pretty, but it really worked :)
@Eliseo Apollo don't need yo girlfriends insta, I got yo mom's number
Not sure if anyone gives a damn but last night I hacked my girl friends Instagram password by using Instaportal. You can find it by Googling ;)
technically a gm in OW lol
Bang. Bing. Bang. Yes. Yes. Bing. Bang. Boom. Think about it.
Ah yes
The thumbnail explains everything
This thumbnail though OMEGALUL
man whoever is incharge of making the youtube videos is amazing these thumbnails and editing are based
@I’m a random monkey so this becomes a template now?
Boomers let millennials run this channel so in turn zoomers gets interested in chess, makes sense
The most impressive about xQc performance is that he overcame Daniel opening preparation over the board . The funniest part was when he was asked about the Danish gambit which Daniel played against him he did not know what it was . Sardoche awaits . If xQc overcomes Sardoche he will become the frontrunner for winning the whole event .
@Emag Dont forget Sardoche TIED to Neeko. His rating is not accurate.
Realistically, he should lose to Sardoche. But Sardoche is really stressed out on pogchamps for some reason. Losing out to Benjy might have hit his confidence a little bit. If he finds himself in a somewhat nasty position against xqc, he might start to doubt himself and blunder, so who knows.
@Angelo Gene Unlike other streamers, he has the ability to grind games for 12 hours straight all day. He's been laddering hard on chess and his puzzle rating is 1500. He's like the local bar brawler and Hikaru is the boxing coach from Ashita no Joe trying to get him to learn the Jab.
Even if xqc loses to sardoche, xqc has shown good chess
@what is this channel even? Yeah, and back then. He lost in 6 moves despite Hikaru's teachings. I'm honestly not sure if he had any secret coaches for Pogchamps 3, but he has been grinding out games. He's seeing a lot of ideas. I don't think XQC has his own signature opening yet. Yes, I know about his Scotch game but he doesn't seem to play it as much
I like the part when they said bing bang boom
Yeah, I too liked the entire video
Think about it! XD
"She's going against me, so no, she can't". Damn, this doesn't sound like the guy that lost a match in six moves. He's gotten a lot better, I want to see a rematch between him and Charlie.
@codegeass7162 xqc doesnt know how to do a good opening
Redemption story arc
FeelsStrongMan from 6 moves to 6 wins
@Y M I don't know man. Last time he lost exactly because Naroditsky trained Charlie by analyzing xqc's games. I fear that if he doesn't get help to beat Charlie, Charlie's prep will put in a bad spot from the get go. I think xqc might be better at spotting tactics but in the words of Fischer "tactics flow from good positions""
I think he will beat Charlie as he's a lot more intuitive and natural whereas Charlie, because he's being coached by a strong GM, he plays in a very theoretical and formulaic way which I think will backfire against XQC who has a somewhat unorthodox style
This is the greatest redemption arc of all time.
Shame that Daniel resigned or we might have had a different outcome in either of those games... Who is coaching him? They need to tell him not to resign when he is up so much time
A different outcome? Doubt it. In the first game Daniel had only a pawn left and in the secon x would just farm time and then slowly promote a pawn. But it's true he should play till the end
It's actually very nice of him he resigned. Good sportmanship especially considering it was against xqc who made some terrible stalemates last pogchamps. It's sort of awe to xqc improvement. But I fully agree that his coach who is Hikaru himself fucked up big time. Telling Daniel to play Danish is just silly.
Exactly, I have doubts that XQC would have converted those positions cleanly with such low time, very strange decision by Daniel
That’s why he said let’s do the “respectful thing.” If your opponent played better than you, you’re a gentleman and resign.
He said "lets do the respecful thing:resign" Besides , xqc can check mate him anytime. The stalemate was veeery hard to get
People still exist in this world thinking that Xqc hasnt improved. Let that sink in.
Did you steal my profile picture?
Yeah, this guy "LazyItachi" who lurks in Twitch channels' chat sections always underestimates xQc, saying that he is the worst contestant and everything like that, saying that xQc will definitely lose against Charlie, and so on. Charlie almost never does puzzles, therefore I know he has even less of a chance winning against Benjy, Sardoche, or Rainn. Charlie even managed to blunder his queen to a newbie (MrBeast). And I say this as a Charlie fanboy and subscriber on Twitch.
If xQc gets real opens then he will be op.
Early middle games and time management is his weakest part I think. In some positons it's not easy to come up with a gameplay so it's perfectly understandable. You can tell he gets a little confused when a lot of pieces are still on the board and he isn't sure how he can make progress. For that reason he tends to burn a lot of time and overthink his candidate moves. On the other hand, he is super solid in the endgames. He plays well, calculates flawlessly and is always aware of the other player's threat. Openings/early middlegame he is still at 950-1100 level but some of his endgames are close to 1500+.
@William Wallace he was like 1340 one time
@William Wallace Actually, before the tournament started, he grinded chess offline and got to 1250 or something, all by his own with no coaching. He got in a nasty lose streak when he played a bunch of games on stream, and that's why he is sitting at 1050 right now. So he really is quite decent to be honest. And obviously, decent in the context of this tournament. Nobody is saying he is master level or anything.
@William Wallace ok we get it youre high rated and putting down a low rated player because they are relatively low rated compared to you, now how would you like it if i started comparing you to the all time greats. Doesnt make sense right? So yeah stop shitting on speculations of xqc's improvement, because improvement is improvement and is commendable regardless of what rating the respective player will be at the end of that improvement when speaking of any level of skill group.
@William Wallace I just mean god like lol.
These thumbnails are going out of hand
@I’m a random monkey has been the best thing to happen to chess since it's more popular than fortnite and csgo atm. Let the zoomers cater to the zoomers. Ez clap
yes
Boomers let millennials run this channel so in turn zoomers gets interested in chess, makes sense
xqc has definately become a decent player since the 6 move loss. Really clean play in most of his endgames so far in pogchamps.
Boom Yes Yes Bing Boom Boom BING BANG BANG
Bing bang bang is the play that made him win.
I agree your Elo goes up when you hit the BING BANG BANG.
big brain