Taking on the World's Best Chess Players for $50,000 | Agadmator Arena

In this video, I compete in one of the richest online tournaments ever -- the Agadmator CakeDeFi Christmas Arena. The Prize fund featured $58,000 prize fund with first place receiving 1 bitcoin. The event attracted some of the world's best players including Magnus Carlsen, Hikaru Nakamura, and Alireza Firouzja. Thank you to ‪@agadmator‬ for hosting a tournament so amazing, it crashed lichess.org. Hopefully there will be a conclusion to the tournament in the near future...
0:00 Everything is broken
0:24 The Berserk button is broken?
3:18 New tournament begins!
4:57 "The hope is I play a weaker player..."
5:53 Risky Grand Prix Attack
9:18 Catalan leads to imbalanced endgame
10:50 Center pawn diamond London game
12:34 STAFFORD GAMBIT TIME
14:45 Super-theoretical AlphaZero London
17:06 Feel good Four Knights
18:30 Ultra-aggressive London
19:52 Struggling against a 1700
22:53 Can I crush a Grandmaster with the London?
25:06 STAFFORD GAMBIT TIME
25:50 Time to stop berserking (London)
28:45 Just kidding, I'm still berserking (London as Black)
32:10 Must... win... fast...
33:43 Opponent plays irregular opening
36:22 London vs GM Andrey Espipenko
38:34 Hack attack London
40:10 QUEEN SAC CHECKMATE
41:29 Grandmaster destroys my soul
42:37 London vs GM Ray Robson
44:29 Walrus Declined
46:47 I TRICKED HIKARU NAKAMRA
48:33 GM plays London against me
51:52 Lichess broke again

Tournament standings (spoiler)-- https://lichess.org/tournament/qzRBGPLN

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