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00:00Ladies and gentlemen, I'm recording this video in the first quarter of 2025, and unless you've

00:10been living under a rock or in a place so remote it's disconnected from the rest of

00:16the world, AI has taken over, chatbots, LLMs, etc.

00:24But in chess, AI has been better than humans for 30 years, roughly.

00:30But now we have a serious problem.

00:33AI in chess now has a sense of humor.

00:39AI knows how to troll.

00:43Chess engines now have personalities.

00:45That's what I'm going to be sharing with you in this video.

00:48Absolutely horrifying, but good news for us, absolutely hilarious.

00:53Now let's get into this.

00:56This is a game played on chess.com between Torch and Lelichess Zero.

01:03Lelichess is a very powerful neural network.

01:05Torch is the computer currently being designed by a team of engineers, I think some included

01:12on chess.com, and this was a speed game played between these two computers who have a speed

01:17rating of 3,885.

01:20If you're watching this, you may have a rating 3,600 points lower than that, maybe even more.

01:26Absolutely terrifying stuff.

01:27But what I'm going to show you here is one of the most disrespectful games ever played

01:31by two AIs ever.

01:33So here we go.

01:34White opened with the move pawn to e4, all good.

01:38Lelichess responded with g6.

01:40This is called the modern defense.

01:42And the point is you control the center with a bishop from a distance.

01:46g4, bishop g7, knight c3, and knight f3.

01:50If you're watching this, whether you're a beginner, intermediate, or advanced player,

01:53this is one of the best ways to start.

01:56I mean, two pawns, two knights.

01:58If you can put two pawns in the center and two knights, it's probably the best way to play.

02:03Sometimes you can even put three pawns in the center, or even four pawns, okay?

02:07Black plays c6.

02:08This may be a little bit obscure to some of you.

02:10Black is not putting their pieces on the traditional squares.

02:13Black wants to play b5.

02:15Black actually has a long-term plan here that white might castle the king that way.

02:19So we start a preemptive attack.

02:20All of this is actually normal.

02:21It may look strange, but don't worry about it.

02:23White plays h3.

02:25That's simply preventing the bishop from ever going here.

02:27And since that bishop also cannot go to this square, black will struggle in the long run

02:31to develop the light-squared bishop.

02:33So black plays knight f6.

02:35White develops.

02:36Black castles.

02:37White castles.

02:38So far, I'm not sure that you can call this anything except a completely normal game of

02:44chess.

02:45By the way, white's light-squared bishop is camping inside the territory.

02:49Some of you, again, who have played chess for some time are probably used to seeing

02:52the bishop on that square, particularly in the fried liver, the Italian game.

02:56You generally don't want to put your bishop on the square if it will be a target for the

03:01enemy pawns.

03:02Or, frankly, in this case, either of them.

03:04That's why the bishop is standing on d3.

03:06Anyway, both sides castle.

03:08Lila expands with this move, b5.

03:10And after torch plays rook e1, Lila continues expanding.

03:15So we have torch with the white pieces, Lila with the black pieces, and this bar on the

03:19left side of your screen is actually controlled by stockfish.

03:22So stockfish is watching its children play a chess game, basically.

03:25That's the way this works.

03:28So white is very well set up.

03:30Everything is pointed.

03:31You can develop a bishop.

03:32You can go here.

03:33White advances with this move, e5.

03:36Basically, you would like to trade pawns, and after trading the pawn, white can take

03:40with the pawn, which is the best move.

03:42But taking with the knight is also not bad.

03:43Taking with the rook looks a little...

03:46Actually, knight takes would lose a pawn, actually.

03:48I just realized.

03:49So maybe rook takes is okay.

03:50The best move, however, is to take with the pawn, not just because you are attacking the

03:54knight, although that is a nice reason.

03:56You gain space.

03:57You open up some squares for your pieces, and your pieces, you know, have a very natural

04:00progression of their next few moves.

04:02This is how good players play chess.

04:04Like what are the next three to four moves of my position?

04:07Which is why Lila actually goes back.

04:10Lila does not take.

04:11Lila prefers to be taken, at which point it will probably take back with the knight

04:14or the queen, although taking with the pawn is also not terrible.

04:17So the knight goes back to e8, and Torch just plays Qe2.

04:20Look, so far, so good, right?

04:22So far, nobody is doing anything too insane.

04:25So far, everything here is pretty understandable.

04:28Now black takes.

04:29Excuse me.

04:30White takes back.

04:32By the way, very quickly, that actually could have also happened like this.

04:36Right?

04:37Anyway, Qe2, takes, takes, and the knight goes to c7.

04:40Okay.

04:41This is not a riddle.

04:45How do you actually play chess?

04:47Have you ever just sat there and asked yourself that question?

04:52How do you actually play?

04:54Like what is chess?

04:56You look at this position in front of you, and you're like, okay, now what?

05:02Well, obviously, we have more space.

05:06We have not developed the bishop and the rook.

05:08You ask me what we're doing here?

05:09I would like to play Bf4 or Bg5 and put my rook in the center, targeting the queen.

05:13That's pretty easy.

05:14Then you start asking yourself, what does black want?

05:17Black probably wants something like this, but then I just move my knight.

05:20Well, Torch, which is rated 3,885 in speed chess, plays a4.

05:25So it's targeting the pawns that black has presented to white, and it's a difficult situation

05:32because either black is going to advance, lose control of the light squares, meaning

05:35the bishop is going to be able to go there, or black will take, or black will leave the

05:39pawn there and get taken.

05:41B4 is the move played.

05:43Now we have Ne4.

05:44This inclusion is a benefit to white because you made the pawns come forward.

05:49Now your bishop will be able to very happily live on the c4 square.

05:53So nice utilization.

05:54An idea here by black, trading the light squared bishop on a6.

06:01Nd7, Ng5.

06:04There's another idea that white is showing.

06:07When the opponent has a limited number of defenders near the king, in this case, one,

06:12there's just one major piece, that's not a major piece, it's a minor piece, but it's

06:16the only piece defending the king.

06:19You can begin moving stuff over there, you know?

06:22You can begin, like, well, what if I had a queen over here?

06:26In general, the way you attack in chess is you think about it like, hey, what if I had

06:37a few moves in a row?

06:40And what would I be able to go here, and here, and here?

06:48That's the way you have to think of attacking in chess, okay?

06:52And that's why the move Ng5 was played in this position.

06:57Now we have Nc5.

06:58So black is targeting the pawn on a4, and the bishop on the d3 square.

07:06Now what?

07:07Now we go here.

07:09We've already talked about all of this.

07:11We've already talked about all of this.

07:14That's exactly what white wanted to do.

07:16That's why the bishop is now on the c4 square, but before that white played the move a4.

07:22So white has accomplished basically everything that they wanted, you know?

07:30Everything's good.

07:31Okay.

07:32Nt5.

07:33Lila is playing defense with its horses.

07:35Bishop e3, targeting the knight, and offering this to be taken.

07:40Why?

07:41Because after this, this is the only active piece in the black position, and then white

07:44will play Rd1 and have a very nice game.

07:47Bishop e3, Nd6.

07:48Rd1.

07:49Look at this.

07:50Look at this beauty.

07:52Everything has been accomplished.

07:53Every white piece is participating in the game.

07:56Black has five pieces on the back rank.

07:58If you're a beginner, that's not how you should play.

08:00Your pieces should be out and about.

08:02They should be doing stuff.

08:03They should be active, participating in the game, etc.

08:06Queen goes to c7.

08:07Now we begin the demolition process.

08:10Alright?

08:11First we're going to back out of the position, and now we're going to start, you know, threatening

08:14stuff.

08:15We're threatening to take the knight.

08:16We're threatening to take that knight.

08:17We're threatening to put the knight on g5 and keep going for an attack.

08:19We're threatening the queen to come here, and the queen to go to the h4 square.

08:22By the way, we have backup.

08:23The rooks can also be used.

08:24The h-pawn can be used.

08:26Black plays knight back to c5, disallowing queen to e4.

08:29That was the entire idea.

08:30That is why the bishop departed, to allow the queen to go over and there.

08:34Bishop a2.

08:36And now, the only move in the position to prove an advantage here.

08:40Your knight is under attack, folks.

08:41What do you do?

08:45Most of you look at this position, you go, my knight is hanging, knight e4, then you

08:50lose your advantage.

08:54So queen c4, wow.

08:58Target my knight, I target your knight.

09:01Danger levels, right?

09:02I always like to say, you don't have to acknowledge a threat if you can make an equal or exceeding

09:06one in nature.

09:07Now black plays b3.

09:08That is a really weird move.

09:10You basically are offering the opponent a free pawn, which torch gladly accepts.

09:16And the point is that now this bishop is blocked.

09:18And Lila's arguing, well the bishop is terrible now, that's what you get.

09:22But after queen b6 in this simple trade, white is a pawn up.

09:26White just has an extra pawn.

09:27Yeah, the bishop is garbage, but maybe the bishop will come here in the future, right?

09:30So maybe white is going to be actually okay.

09:32Lila, meanwhile, activates all of its pieces and just has a fantastic looking position.

09:36I mean, Lila's a pawn down, but got a beautiful knight.

09:39Bishop strong, bishop is strong.

09:41This bishop can't even go to b1 because it's going to get taken.

09:43So what are you going to do in this position?

09:44You're going to go bishop b1 because it can get taken.

09:48Bishop takes b1, you have this move, and now we enter, right?

09:52The rook was attacking.

09:53And we're going to enter an endgame that looks like this, where white is still a pawn up.

09:57But you're about to witness something absolutely vile.

10:01Something absolutely disgusting.

10:03What torch is about to do to Lila needs to be insensitivity training videos for future

10:09games between computers against one another.

10:12Black plays rook b8, targeting the pawn.

10:14White goes bishop d4, defending the pawn.

10:15Black goes knight f4, attacking the rook.

10:16White moves the rook out of danger.

10:17How is white going to win this game?

10:19Well, in the long run, white is going to have seven pawns versus six.

10:24That's winning.

10:25But to get there, you're going to have to correctly trade pieces, and you're going to

10:28have to not lose any pawns.

10:31Knight e6.

10:34Solid.

10:36Attacks the pawn.

10:37Defends the pawn.

10:39Black just sort of sitting around because white is defending all their weaknesses.

10:44White attacks the pawn.

10:45Black defends the pawn.

10:46Chess is a very logical game.

10:48Now white makes an improvement.

10:51White's got to make some sort of progress in the position.

10:54Black goes h5.

10:55Doesn't really let white make any progress.

10:56Now we start bringing the king.

10:58Innocent, effortless improvement without making too many big commitments.

11:02Black also does nothing.

11:03White also does nothing.

11:05Both sides are just sort of moving their pieces around, preparing for the next phase

11:09of battle.

11:12White made some progress.

11:15That pawn couldn't have been taken.

11:17It looks good because rook takes pawn would have been check.

11:20Now black just defends.

11:21So how is white going to make any progress here?

11:22Look at this.

11:23The position's been totally locked.

11:26White can't go b4, and white can't go f4 without losing something.

11:29So how is white going to do anything?

11:31Black has done a very nice job.

11:33This here would probably blunder something catastrophic.

11:36Well, watch this.

11:38Check.

11:39King g7.

11:40There it is.

11:43Beautiful repositioning.

11:44So the rook goes to f6.

11:46The bishop goes to e1.

11:48The pawn comes up, and black's pawns are going to totally fall.

11:50Wait a minute, the rook is trapped.

11:54So torch deliberately puts the rook into black's territory and sends it off to die.

12:00It's just like, you will be sacrificed, but I will break through the position.

12:04Look, it takes on g5, it takes on check, and it takes on h4.

12:08So you got a bishop, and you got both these pawns, and you had an extra pawn from before.

12:12So bishop and three pawns for a rook.

12:16Three plus one plus one plus one is six, in case you didn't know that.

12:23But how are we going to break?

12:24We still can't do anything.

12:25Look at this.

12:26Rook h8.

12:27Knight back.

12:28And black is going to...

12:34Black threatened a fork, and torch gave up both its rooks.

12:39Torch gives up both of its rooks, throws in a check, and goes here.

12:44This is crazy.

12:46What even is this?

12:48So it realized that black's position is so dominated that the bishop and the knight and

12:56the multiple extra pawns are enough to win the game.

12:59That's bananas.

13:02Black has counterplay on three lines.

13:03Black has counterplay against this pawn, black has counterplay against this pawn, and black

13:07has counterplay down the open file.

13:09But if you put the king on c2, black no longer has counterplay down the b and the d lines,

13:14and black definitely is not going to get counterplay down the g line, because white is going to

13:17go here and push black backwards.

13:22So the position doesn't look particularly appealing.

13:25Knight g8.

13:26Check.

13:27Here.

13:28And now knight g5.

13:29That's basically mate.

13:31That's basically checkmate.

13:32You're going to lose this, and lose everything.

13:34So you have to do this.

13:35Now this looks like a huge win.

13:38Here's the problem.

13:41This move looks very good, right?

13:44Because you're going to win this pawn, and you're going to win the rest of the...

13:46Yeah, but how are you going to defend against that?

13:49And I got news for you.

13:51This looks good.

13:52Looks like the rook is a problem.

13:53He's not.

13:54He's not a problem.

13:55He just checks.

13:56That doesn't matter.

13:57And if you go attack that pawn, I go here, you take, and then I am three squares away

14:01from queening, and you simply don't have time to stop my pawns, because I have more pawns.

14:05And then I can also bring my king and eat pawns, and my pawns are defended by my bishop,

14:09which are stopping your pawns from going up the board.

14:11So black is totally lost.

14:13But this is the most unbelievable part of this game.

14:16Black goes c5, white goes here, black goes here, and black just begins playing defense.

14:21Okay?

14:22Now we are on move 62.

14:24I told you at the beginning of this video, computers now troll.

14:28This game, from this point forward, took 109 moves to finish.

14:35109 more moves, just for one side.

14:42The sides together made 218 more moves.

14:47Isn't that crazy?

14:48But you know what the craziest part is?

14:54There's only one winning idea.

14:57It's virtually impossible to find.

15:00Why?

15:01This is protected by this.

15:03This is protected by this.

15:07The king can't enter, and if you play b4, of course a horrible move, because after this,

15:15nothing has changed.

15:16You just gave black an advantage.

15:17So where's the win?

15:20I mean the king can't enter, the bishop can't take any pawn, g6 doesn't make any

15:24sense, because pawn takes, pawn takes, king takes, and the king cannot go help with the

15:29g-pawn advance.

15:30Like, even if you go here, the white king can't help.

15:33So what do you do?

15:35Well, torch, because torch is rated 3885, knows what to do.

15:42It knows what to do.

15:44It just refuses to do it.

15:48I'm going to keep clicking the right arrow.

15:54In case it's not clear, I've already briefed you on what's going to happen in this game.

15:58Okay, we've made 20 moves.

16:01Nothing has happened.

16:02In chess, there are two rules that would make this game end in a draw.

16:06One, three-time repetition.

16:08Okay?

16:09So if the sides did this, like you saw that?

16:11If the sides go boop boop, boop boop, boop boop, boop, boop, boop, boop, if they repeat

16:17three times, it's a draw.

16:19If they repeat a position three times, not in a row, but at any given moment, it's also

16:23a draw.

16:25But the difference is that torch keeps moving its king.

16:28Look at this.

16:30It keeps moving its king.

16:32It's moving its bishop, and then it moves its king.

16:35So it keeps threatening Leela with a draw.

16:38It keeps doing three-move repetition, and then it moves the king to a different square,

16:42and then it moves the bishop to a different square, and then it moves its bishop back,

16:45and then it moves its king to a different square, and then it moves its bishop to a

16:48new square, and then it moves its bishop back, and then it moves the bishop, and then it

16:50moves the pawn.

16:51So now, the position has reset.

16:54We can now no longer have the 50-move rule.

16:56We are 101 moves into this game.

16:59Rook goes back.

17:00Okay, now let's just do this a little bit more.

17:02Ring around the rosy.

17:03Maybe he'll hang up.

17:04Why is the king going there?

17:05Why is the king going to b2?

17:08Yo.

17:09The bot has a sense of humor.

17:11I mean, of course the king is completely useless here.

17:14But it's also useless on those squares, right?

17:16Bishop f2.

17:17It's like, ah!

17:18King a2.

17:19Ah!

17:20Ah!

17:21Ah!

17:22Ah!

17:23Ah!

17:24Where's the king move?

17:25Where's the king?

17:26There it is!

17:27It's not making the draw.

17:28It's messing with Leela.

17:29Look at this.

17:30Bishop, ah!

17:31Ah!

17:32Ah!

17:33Ah!

17:34Ah!

17:35Ah!

17:36Ah!

17:37It's just messing around.

17:38This is insane.

17:39And now, it moves the king again.

17:40Bishop f2.

17:41Bishop b1.

17:42Remember, the game, I think, would have auto-finished with the repetition.

17:48So now, the king is going to walk to the middle.

17:55We are 144 moves into this game.

17:58It's trolling.

17:59I mean, it's an engine.

18:00It knows what the winning plan is.

18:02May I present to you the winning plan.

18:05On to g6.

18:06You have to have the king and the bishop active.

18:10You have to have them pointed at the opponent's pawn.

18:13The bishop cannot, for example, be on that square.

18:14It would be, ah, maybe it's still winning, actually.

18:17No, it's a draw.

18:19So everything has to be perfectly positioned for this move to happen.

18:24But here's the point.

18:26This is why this is winning 146 moves into the game.

18:29It's not because I take on g6.

18:32It's because I play this.

18:34This is why this position is winning.

18:37Why?

18:38Because if you take on h5, I take the pawn on c5, protect the promotion square, and you

18:44cannot take me.

18:45So you have to go here.

18:46When you do that, I take on g6.

18:48So now my pawns defend each other, and the idea is quite simple.

18:51The idea is to go promote.

18:53You can't take on g6, because then I would take on c...

19:00Still winning.

19:01It's still winning.

19:02Why is it still winning?

19:03Because the king is active.

19:05Because now you go here, attacking the pawn on a5, and then when I try to protect it,

19:11you can bring in the king.

19:13So your king has to be in the center.

19:15If the king was here, this is a draw.

19:17So Torch set everything up perfectly to time this break at the exact right moment of the

19:23positioning of the king and the bishop, and did this, and brought the king over.

19:28And now it looks like the final piece of the puzzle is there, but you take on a5.

19:33That is the point.

19:35And if the black rook runs over here to create checks, again, this is the winning idea.

19:40Now you block.

19:41The pawns advance.

19:42Black cannot stop three connected pawns.

19:43It's just not going to happen.

19:46So king c4, the rook goes to g8, the pawn has been won.

19:49Let the pawns go to work.

19:51Bishop back, a5, b4, a6, and there it is.

19:55You're going to block.

19:56You're going to check.

19:57If you take, I push, but it doesn't matter.

19:59You give up the other pawn, and now the last winning move, 163 moves into the game.

20:07The pawn is queening.

20:08This is the only way to try to defend yourself.

20:11It's not going to work.

20:12You will run out of squares.

20:15And this game ends with a checkmate, 172 moves, 172 moves.

20:26But the craziest part about this game is the fact that torch knew from this position

20:33that it was winning.

20:34It knew that sacrificing the two rooks in a totally dominant position, by the way, this

20:38is very instructive, shows you that rooks are endgame pieces, but when they are controlled

20:42by a pawn majority, and bishop and knight, they actually coordinate very, very well together.

20:47And as long as rooks don't have easy access on their open files or semi-open files with

20:52targets, they're completely useless.

20:54They are stuck on the other side, and they can very easily be outplayed by a bishop and

20:58a knight, particularly a bishop.

21:00So very, very nice job here, and it's, I mean, dude, I can't believe it trolled Lila for

21:06that long.

21:07Just absolutely ridiculous game, 172 moves, never made a three-time repetition, threatened

21:12to draw so many times, just funny stuff, just funny stuff.

21:16Torch wins a very nice game, very instructive game.

21:19Hopefully you learned a couple of things.

21:21Hopefully you smiled at the ridiculousness of this, and I can't wait until the Chess.com

21:26algorithm grants these computers a rating of 4,000, because that is just absolutely

21:30bananas.

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21:39You can get your tickets, there is a link in the description, live against the elo,

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21:58Get out of here.

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