I Played My GM Dad in an Official Chess Tournament!!!!!

I played a super strong chess tournament with lots of grandmasters and international masters and really strong players, but I wasn't expecting to face my dad. In one of the later rounds, I got paired against my grandmaster dad, and even though we've played in a lot of tournaments before, I mean, I've only faced him once in my entire life in an actual official setting. So this was my second time ever playing against my father. Now, today is his birthday, so please wish him happy birthday in the comments. But anyways, let me show you what happened. So I was sitting by the table and I was kind of smiling. I couldn't really believe that this was actually going on. And after a little while of us waiting for the game to actually start, we shook hands and started the clock. And it always feels weird to do that with your family because, yeah, like I know him so well and there we are facing each other in a proper setting. So anyways, I waited a little bit, then I started the clock, and then I played d4. So he played knight f6, I went c4, and he decided to play one of his really weird lines. And my father is known for playing really strange openings, like my dad just loves playing a lot of random stuff. I was kind of smiling here and there because I just was laughing at the situation. My dad is also super fast, as you can see, like he kept responding super fast to every single move. So anyways, he played b5, and this is a pawn sacrifice, but my dad loves sacrificing his pawns on the side of the board because that will leave it to him having more play, and he loves that. So my dad, he was known to be the Spanish Tal, which Miquel Tal was one of the greatest tacticians of all time, and my father at his prime was also, I mean, one of the most amazing tacticians. He's always been such a good tactical chess player. So here we're taking a bunch of different stuff. He took my pawn on b2, I took the pawn back, and then he went for this check. And of course, I only had one move to do. We traded queens, and here I was honestly pretty happy. I thought that this was quite a good position for me, but I also knew that, I mean, anything could happen obviously. The game was 3 plus 2, which meant that there was very little time, and my dad is way faster than me. Like, people think that older people are not faster. Trust me, my dad is so incredibly fast in chess. Like, he's an amazing blitz player. So I spent a little bit of time thinking here because I was looking at what happens if I push my d-pawn one step and try to sacrifice it, but I ended up playing rook d1 to prepare for that move instead. Now, he spent a little bit of time thinking as well and played bishop g7. The idea now is that I can't take on f6 anymore, so I pushed my d-pawn, but I'll be honest, I think honestly that just made my pawn a little bit weak, but I was trying to invoke fear in my father. I wanted him to be afraid. I wanted him to worry about my pawn being there, but I realized that I maybe kind of tricked myself. So anyways, I went f4. I really wanted to play f5. He played knight c6. I went knight f3. I wanted to get my pieces out. He castled, and here I started thinking about how can I attack this pawn on c5, and so I ended up threatening it now, but I think I should maybe have done a few moves before because in this moment, he was able to put his knight in front of my bishop, blocking me from taking that pawn, and now his knight is so good, and I felt like my king was in the center. I felt like my pawn was weak. I felt like so many of my pieces were really weak right now, and I didn't like it. So I spent a little bit of time just contemplating my bad position, and I realized that my father was just outplaying me right now. So I decided to bring my bishop out, thinking that if he takes it, at least I'll be able to take his pawn, but of course, my dad wasn't really thinking about taking it. Instead, he just got his bishop out. Now he's kind of threatening to maybe take my knight and get these pawns to be doubled. So I spent a lot of time thinking here, and I ended up playing rook f1. I wanted to defend my knight with my rook. At this point, I completely forgot I was playing against my father. I was just thinking about the position. I was just so into the game that I was completely forgetting about who my opponent was, but every time I kind of looked up, I was like, ah, this is my dad. Anyway, so he played rook c8. He wanted to defend his pawn as well, and I really just started to hate my position more and more. I didn't really know what to do. I decided to keep my bishop by going with my bishop back, but I realized that he could really easily at any point play something like rook c6 and threaten my pawn, and I wouldn't really know how to defend it. So I was really worried that he was going to do something like that, because if I lost my d-pawn, I mean, I felt my position would just collapse because he'd be able to take everything on the queen side, or everything in the center, but my dad didn't really care about that. Instead, he just pushed his a-pawn. I tried to get a little bit of counterplay, a little bit of activity, so I pushed my f-pawn one step, and now he checked my king. I'd completely forgotten that my king could get checked. I decided to bring my king up because I realized that if I brought my king down, then maybe his bishop could come in at some point, his light squared bishop, and be really annoying towards me, so I brought my king up. I really wish that I could see what my time was here, but the clock was on the wrong side of the camera, and I didn't want to ask all my opponents to put the clock on the other side because it was an official chess tournament, but I guess I could have with my dad. So here my dad was really considering how to take advantage of his great position. You can see that his bishop pair is so strong. My bishop sucks. My pawns are weak. He decided to push his e-pawn to maybe threaten at some point to attack my knight and just get a little bit more of center, but now he was finally able to attack my d-pawn. He put his rook on a6, a very safe move, threatening my pawn. I decided to go completely crazy on the king side because I thought there's nothing else I can do. He moved this bishop to be completely safe, and I didn't really know what to do. I looked at my time. I saw my time ticking, but I thought this time for me to try to get a comeback. So I pushed my g-pawn, trying to open up the file in front of his king, trying to come in with my rooks. He decided to not care. He took my pawn. I took his. Was he gonna care or was he not going to care? Now the people on board next to me started looking at our game. Everybody knew that this was the game of the cramlings, even though my dad's name is Beyon, but my name is also Beyon, so I guess this was the game of the Beyons. And he spent time contemplating here because he really wanted to understand if I had anything bad I could do to his king. So he really spent time here looking at this position, and he ended up playing rook e8, ignoring it. I checked him, and I was now happy because I really felt like I was able to maybe get some counterplay, especially when I got my knight up to g5. I thought finally my pieces are starting to become good. So I was threatening now to checkmate him on f7. He took my pawn, which made me a bit sad. I brought my bishop back because I wanted to trade off his bishop. I didn't really want him to have that bishop over there, especially because my bishop was so bad. He took my bishop. I took it back, and now he played the move d5. He really wanted to open up the position in front of my king. I attacked his knight. He checked me. I brought my king back. He wanted to start rolling with those central pawns, but I wanted to make life difficult for him here, so I played bishop e4. Okay, this sounded so weird. It's my dad. I don't want to make his life difficult, but on the chessboard I do. So anyways, he took back. I brought my rook in. He got his knight into d6 as well. I decided to defend my pawn. He started taking my pawn. I attacked his knight, and now I only had a couple seconds left, and he blundered his knight. But when I took it back, I realized that my time was gone, and I had lost on time. I was so shocked by him blundering his knight that I didn't realize that I was losing on time, and there we went. So my dad played a fantastic game, but he did blunder his knight like the very last move he did, but I did lose on time, and so I ended up losing to my father. He ended up having a fantastic tournament, but I also had a great tournament, and there's some games from this tournament that I'm really excited to show you, so let me know if you want to see any of the other games that I played here. This was played in Svartahesten, which is a chess bar in Stockholm, and yeah, this was my game against my father. Still can't believe I got matched against him. Anyways, I hope you enjoyed this video, and once again, wish him happy birthday. He's turning 75 years old today, so wish him a very happy birthday. It's a very special day, and yeah, I'll see you all in my next video. Thank you so much for watching. Bye-bye!