I Played Vincent Keymer

I'm here. Yes, you can be there. I have lost so many games with black, but now I take the white pieces. Okay, hello. Hi. It's very nice to meet you. It's the first time, I think, that we meet. Like, at least that we talk. Yes. Yeah, I've seen you in tournaments, obviously. But yeah, and I have really wanted to play a game of chess against you. Because for some reason, I enjoy getting crushed by strong players. But I wanted to see if maybe we could do some odds. How much time do I get? How much time do you want? How much time do you think you need to beat me? How much time do you get? I'll get five minutes. Yeah, I would like one and a half or two. Okay, we can do two for you. Two versus five? Sure. Okay. All right, let's do that. Are you excited for freestyle chess? Yes, certainly. Have you been preparing a lot for this event? Or has it been hard to prepare? Because it's difficult to prepare. Yeah, it's very hard to prepare. Also, I was in Weik until like two days ago or something. Yeah. So yeah, not really much time to prepare. No, and then obviously you were just focusing on Weik and C. And then you immediately came here. But you're from Germany, right? So where in Germany are you from? And you're Frankfurt, so it's still quite far for me to get here. But yeah, it's right from the south. Yeah. Okay. That's nice that you get to be at home. Or at home, like in your country for this. Okay. Sorry. Oh my God. I'm putting the wrong topic. Give me a second. Are you good with chalks? I don't know which ones those are, but it should work. Should be number 26. Are you good with chalks? I can try. I guess we'll get five here. Thank you very much. I like the yellow blazer. It's nice. It's really cool to see everyone rocking their different color blazer. Oh, you fixed it. Amazing. Thank you very much. I'm sorry. I could have fixed it myself. Okay. Good luck. Amazing. I just played a game of freestyle chess versus Magnus. Now seeing the pieces in the correct squares feels weird. Yeah, it's quite different. Do you have any preference? Do you prefer normal chess? Do you prefer freestyle chess? Or do you just like both? Yeah, I just like both, actually. It's important to have everything ready for me. It's like they're in different ways, I feel like. Oh, okay. Let's see. Can I? I guess I'll go back. It's actually kind of terrifying to play and you're just instantly always making me. Well, I don't have that much time, so I kind of have to. I need to like not get psyched out by it. Okay, I'm tired of defending. Time to go up. Is there anyone you're specifically excited to play here? Not really, no. I've played pretty much all of them already in quite many tournaments. Does it feel like at some point when you've played against the same people so many times that you almost kind of know them somehow from just playing so much? Kind of, yeah. I think it truly is different to play someone the first time or if you have played them, I don't know, 10 times already. It sure changes the way you know each other and how you perceive the game. Yeah, yeah. Because it almost feels like you get to know a little bit your opponent when you're playing. And also, what is this? You're just guessing. Okay. Yeah, it would be unpleasant to get into some attack if I don't have any time to consider my defense. Yeah, it makes sense. It's just one of those times where I kind of forgot that you can just guess. Yeah, it happens in freestyle quite a lot that sometimes the king can go up the whole board in like one move. I bet that happens. Okay, you know what? This is annoying. I'm almost catching up on your time. Can we just like eliminate your queen? I hope it's not tripped. No, it absolutely is not. Ah, kills. Do this. Yeah, I don't like it when I end up losing that pawn, which is very fair enough, but I'm now seeing the consequences of it. Yeah, I also have a nice square on D5. Very nice square on D5. Oh, man. Yeah, I don't even really know what to do. I hope I can. Correct. Don't trade everything. Okay, this is kind of dangerous, actually. Shouldn't have allowed that. I mean, you need to give me some counter play. It can't just be... Okay, not yet. Oh, we're gonna get long time. Yeah, I really shouldn't have allowed all that. Okay, I don't see a threat. I'm gonna pretend like there is none. Yeah, there may not. Do we have a second queen? Soon, soon you'll get her. Oh no, I got really excited. No, there's nothing here. Yeah. Ah, I thought I had something, but I don't. Okay, I'm resigning. I'm resigning. Oh, I don't know. Did I maybe check that I put F5? Yeah, I didn't see, but I certainly shouldn't have allowed that much counter play. Like, my position should have been completely winning. But okay, suddenly this queen a4 move came out of nowhere after trading two rooks. That was kind of bad. Yeah, no, I had to try something because I felt like I was just being crushed. Yeah, yeah. No, I just thought there was nothing anyway. Like, the combination of having played F6 plus getting the queen into the light squares was unpleasant for sure. Yeah, no, it was, yeah. Okay, but it was, it's really fun to play against really strong players. So thank you so much for the game. And before I go, I don't know if you know it already, but do you want to guess my rating? Do you know it? Roughly. So I think like around 2100, something like that. Okay, okay. I wanted to see if after this game you could guess it. Would you have guessed the same after this game or did I play worse? It's very hard to. It's hard from one game. Yeah. Okay, that's fair enough. Well, thank you very much for the game. It was a lot of fun and good luck also in the tournament. Thank you. It's gonna be fun to follow.