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A rook-and-bishop defense draws the week's biggest new audience, alongside tournament broadcasts and GothamChess fan encounters.
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Magnus Carlsen TEACHES You An Endgame 👀
Chess.com gave its viewers a deceptively difficult assignment: save a position that chess theory says should be drawable. In "Magnus Carlsen TEACHES You An Endgame 👀", Carlsen explains how a lone rook can hold out against a rook and bishop.
"Rook and bishop versus rook is generally a theoretical draw, but it's not super easy to hold," he says. The practical lesson starts with pinning the bishop to its king. Then come waiting moves and a useful instruction: whichever way White tries to escape the pin, move the defending king the other way.
The clip reached roughly 260,000 views, the largest audience for a new upload in the channel's ten-video week. Viewers picked up on the gap between knowing a position is drawn and actually defending it. Several joked that they could find a way to lose with either side; others focused on the rook placement and pin.
The rest of the lineup moved between instruction and company: Hikaru Nakamura explained two knights against a pawn, GothamChess played fans, and the Chess Club Showdown paired Maxime Vachier-Lagrave and Vitality with Faustino Oro and 9z. Titled Tuesday supplied the weekly blitz broadcast.
The channel added subscribers over the week, while daily views are running comfortably above their usual level. Its strongest immediate momentum belongs to newer clips: Oro solving a puzzle, chess in an unexpected location, and Nakamura's endgame explanation. Carlsen's lesson brought the biggest new audience, but the next positions are already on the board.
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What viewers say
For me it's not a draw. I'd lose with the rook and bishop
@rayquaza1245See it on YouTubeThat rook placement was very good for a free pin
@IonGasnasSee it on YouTubeI've already lost.
@gert-janbonnemaSee it on YouTube
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so many times in chess a theoretically drawn position is lost bc the lesser player always has to make the best moves and usually he doesn’t ?
@johnballard6725See it on YouTubeIf me on black side sure lose,
But if in white side
Aslo lose😂@ALLRounder-ip5blSee it on YouTube
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- 2,960,000 ▲ 10,000 this week
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- 5,206,163
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- October 24, 2026
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- 261,339
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Carlsen is a Norwegian grandmaster and former world chess champion.