Chess is literally brutal and stressful
One move and it's gone
Being focused is so difficult and specially when you are top player and you have only chess

Magnus' apartment looks like that of a serial killer.

The strees it takes to play a chess game and become brilliant at it, is enough reason for the players to be paid well

Reminds me of the same argument women's basketball makes for poor payment. Unfortunately, the money has to come from somewhere. The reason tennis players make a lot is because a lot more people watch their games and so they take in much greater sponsor revenue which they can give to players. Who is supposed to pay chess players money? Is it me? Is it you? Who then?

6:41 listen closely to how the artificial voice over drastically changes tone

The lesson is:
- Your self-esteem - your entire sense of self-worth - needs to come from yourself.
- It is not something that you can outsource to others.

So forget the fans. Forget the accolades.
Try asking yourself "Am I happy about who I am being?"  
ONLY you can answer that question.

Speaking of strong kids, it’s not about the engines but about the opportunity to play a lot online. Also, sub14 GMs were a thing even a while ago. Karjakin got his at the age of 12; for Magnus it was 13. They come in greater numbers now, but mostly as a result of bigger talent pool in general (eg the impact of Anand on chess in India).

what a video bro! keep it up. A year and you will be big in the chess community

Chess players deserve better.

Some factors that can be improved. ("The good moves are all there, waiting to be thought of." -Tarrasch.)
Players can comb their hair, stand up straight, and show up on time. The Uzbek players do this right. I think it helps their morale and results.
The Internet age has seen a decline in sportsmanship, manners, gentlemanly discourse, and maturity in general. Gifted players can make it into their 20s or 30s without rising above juvenile snarky trash-talking. The better way is shown by Caruana and Giri who are grown-ups.

Or as Bobby Fischer eventually said:"I hate chess!" the machines became just more and more central. However, there is still CHESS, with or without grandmasters. Commercialized it becomes toxic, Kramnik is a symptom of the madness of chess being popularized. Before it was a tool of Soviet ideology and struggle for world domination. Good video. I feel with Ding and Gukesh... Many of the players are good people who want to play chess and win, but eventually had to deal with the circus, too... and always the engine. Markus broke somewhat free of it. [And chess(classical).]

Great channel

Kramnik should have been banned for life for being such a revolting psychopath.

Gukesh is unambiguously the official FIDE World Champion: he won the 2024 World Championship match against Ding Liren.

Magnus’s relationship to the title is unusual, though. He didn’t lose the championship match—he declined to defend the title, and FIDE announced in 2022 that he would not participate in the next championship cycle.

The rating situation makes the distinction even more interesting. On the September 2026 FIDE list, Carlsen is still #1 at 2823, while Gukesh is #26 at 2717—a gap of 106 Elo.

So there are really two different claims being conflated:

“Gukesh is the undisputed World Champion.”
True. FIDE recognizes him as the 18th World Champion, and there is no competing classical world championship title from another organization.

“Gukesh is the undisputed best chess player in the world.”
That does not follow from his world-champion status. The current rating list has Carlsen substantially higher.

So the precise formulation is:

Gukesh is the undisputed official World Champion, but he is not the undisputed highest-rated or strongest player in the world.

can't be worse than making clickbait for a living

amazing video bro

Bro this video is great, I appreciate your work. Don't listen to the primitive haters. Probably, you can just mix the videos with AI and with yourself in the camera

Eh? Number 10 is earning $349,955 - six figures. But you also say, IN THE NEXT SENTENCE, that by number 26 you're down to 6 figures. This doesn't make sense - did you mean down to 5 figures? You may have good points to make here, but give us a chance to understand them.

i love chess, one day its gonna be me

Undisputed, you say!