Our first masterclass here at the 27 trade wise Gibraltar 2017 trade wise for the chess vessel You're here two years ago It's special in top all of who's been a former well feeder world champion 2005 And one of the absolute top chess players in the world for the last 20 years vessel in if not longer than that Welcome back to Gibraltar your second visit. Yeah, second. Yeah. How are you feeling? How's it feel to be back? I'm really enjoying a good sign. Yeah, great Well, you have prepared something special I think for us today. Oh, yeah I prepared a lecture about the mistakes we we do we make When we take some moves for granted and it usually happens with during the calculations But it could be on move on our first moves of the line we calculate or sometimes it can be much deeper So, okay, I'll start with one very famous position one very famous game that was played in 1984 in the first match between Kasparov and car proof and of course, okay It's not really like a big thing, but for example in this position I don't know how to get to Do I click? Coming soon Yeah, so it's this famous game between A couple of in Kasparov in their first match So it was not a big mistake what Kasparov did, but of course he's a bit worse And he should just wait so it's a question if White is winning or not but of course he should have waited and I think he took for granted that after Hgh, of course couple foot immediately take back and then let's say King goes to f4 but But if it's for example if the knight goes to f4 then Bishop should Should go to f7 and to protect both pawns on d5 and h5 if the knight goes to c5 Then of course the black has to stay on with their bishop to c8 and of course wait But of course what Kasparov didn't expect was the move knight g2 again He took for granted that white would take the pawn, but I don't know if knight g2 is stronger than the move gh, but I think the very shock of not Considering that move it was a big blow for him and eventually he couldn't defend this position so So well as we see it happens to everyone and the next Position I'll want to show is The the the next one So the next position as like around 12 years ago it happened to him as well And I'm showing a game that I don't think it's like the best example But I want to show it because I was present and it was a very important final of the Rapid event in Geneva in 1996 and then did this was the decisive the decisive Bleach game you were playing in this event. I was there Yeah, I was knocked out by Kasparov I think and then the final was Kasparov against Anand and it was very strange that the first game of the 25 minutes Final was one with black game with Kasparov But then the second one he got a very easy position with white until he only needed a draw, but he pushed Like I think he kind of relaxed and then eventually he lost. I think he managed to take and then they reached this decisive Bleach game when Kasparov was completely dominating we had more time and two pawns up. So So we we reached this position when well He's clear advantage, you know, and he could just take with the knight and then he he would immediately He would probably win the final then he can also play a five a very strong move and Well many or just to castle But again, he took and of course he believed that immediately Queen takes is like forced, but the thing is that after Queen g4 he's already lost in one move exactly. Yeah, but of course. Yeah, again, it was a blitz game. So It was a blitz game so Blitz or not, that was a blitz game and it's easy to miss that move and then It just completely turned And he eventually lost that game and also lost the final. So Black Archie has three pieces under attack now It's quite amusing. Yeah, and then of course he had to castle, but okay, he's already a queen queen down and lost position and Think vision never let him Escape. Mm-hmm. So two mistakes from Gary. Yeah So the the next position I want to show is the disposition it's just some theoretical Position that there's been there's been already some games that's for example here This is a theoretical position when obviously what can take on d8 and Black takes on d1 what takes on c7 and black takes on b2 But also there is this this move which is very funny. Oh, this is an amazing famous Yeah, that you're just so and of course it's very very easy to you know to to miss this kind of move I just show it because I really like it, you know, it's one of the moves I I will always remember especially the first time I saw it looked to me amazing So that's how is it possible to find such move without using a computer? Well, that's been played in the year 2000, so I don't think it was really well But I mean Bishop did d8 was played and There's been already several games with the move queen F3 as well But I knew it like more than 10 years ago But okay, of course, it's not the end because again We have the same stuff now that you can take the queen You can take the bishop, but of course the movies the strong the best movies Quincy And of course now what has to take and then I think d5 and some compensation So this is the second position. I I like to show and then of course my I'm starting with my experience Last year I played In St. Louis and the Siegfield Cup and the tournament was going great for me So but in the first five games, I had absolutely similar situations. So if you look here So my opponent took and took on d4 So of course I was considering e5 which is to win a piece and eventually it's stronger than what I did But it was you know, it was a bit of Jetlock it was a bit that the first round I wanted to be solid and I also considered this move was also good enough and in my calculations Here After 94 my original idea was to take and then after night takes b4 then Rook takes e4 and I thought that then queen e2 and it was a very good pressure for white But again if I take Black is not forced to take because he has night of proof. Yes. So already we have this problem And of course, yeah after after ed of course, I'm not forced to take e5 But what happens after e5? I see after e5 white is a bit better, but it's quite complicated I think take and I think knight b3. So white wins a piece and I think objectively whitest has a better position, but Don't remember the real but again it looked to me both moves were okay And simply that the move CD was clearer, you know, it was easier to play for white but again my mistake was that in this position I My region was used to take and I thought it was Forced to take on b4 and then I realized that night if too was strong. So That was in the first round eventually Of course, I knew that I could take and it was even some slow small advantage After Rook c1 and it was probably not much, but I think my opponent he made some Mistake in the calculation and he just blended the piece. So that was the first That was the first round so we already had this situation with when we we have Some moves that we considered forced and then the second round I was playing Fabiano so the way the game went pretty very good for me and I think here I I Fabiano played the move bishop a2 which was a mistake So I and he missed that here. I have this very strong move and and now He found the best the best Way to play because position is better for black. He had to sacrifice his queen. Yeah, and And yeah, but okay, of course he has three pieces and some fortresses and you know It look it's not clear. So of course here I made the natural move Queen d4 but after bishop f3 while it's still better But of course now it's not so easy and finally it was a draw But my mistake was that okay, obviously Queen d4 can't be a bad move That's what I thought and I actually saw the move rookie eight Which was actually much much stronger because now We exchanged the rooks and then somehow black is white is not able to Prevent the the penetration of black Queen like for example if he takes and King f1 then I just go Queen e4 and I didn't treat I saw it was good But I didn't realize that in fact it looks completely meaningful for me So your computer was showing you like almost Almost a bit to point. It's very weak. Yeah, because I'm penetrating. So again natural taking Like it looks like a forced move and it can't it is not a bad move, but of course again, it's not It's not the best move. Do you remember it said did you pay that move very quickly? No, no, no because I I think my Fabiano he was also in a time travel But I said, okay, come on rookie eight It just couldn't believe Queen d4 was a bad move and he indeed is not a bad move But it's simply not it's missing the win because for example if after this move White can go rookie three, but again, I think it's more or less the same somehow same problem somehow I'm penetrating to e4 and then again to b1 and Black is not able to or maybe not maybe maybe in this position Queen e7 is actually stronger and after Knight Queen e7 is stronger Instead of where was the queen? here So I'm So if black if white Goes like this then I have b4 b3 or maybe just go like this and Queen d3. So, okay, of course it's With computer it's easy to realize black is winning, but over the board it. We don't know it. So that's the reason I took so Again, it was not a mistake. It was a very natural move, but it was not the best. So I missed the win So a very human move queen. Yeah, of course, but that's the typical Move that we take without big thing without thinking we take and then Okay, just That's what I couldn't believe it It's it cannot be a bad move. It can it can be a bad move, but it's again. It's missing the The win. Yeah, so my next move my next Game was on the the day after I played against Vacher so I prepared Some line which very forced line. It's very Very popular variation and I thought that white was pressing a bit and So, okay, it's you know this typical line when There are already hundreds of games and so I thought this was A bit disturbed Annoying for black because Vacher he already played Against Geary in the first round and he was worse. So I had some small idea So that was more or less the position where I think Gristuk agreed to draw it. I don't I don't agree and Gristuk They agree to draw but I thought it could be a bit better, especially if White is able to put his pawn on c4 and then I had some Let's say small ideas, but of course So he played queen h3 and now That was not the move that computer liked Because I I can just go to a three, you know with of course white white Wants to take on black wants to take on only four. So of course, I have to I have to protect and after long thing It showed how bad my Form was I played rook d3 after like 10 15 minutes to think and of course I completely missed that losing a piece, but I was lucky that After this the ending is closer to a draw then Then the loss then then winning for black So eventually I could push my pawns on b4 and white has some activity and it was a draw But again, it's very funny that After rook d3 apparently The winning move is not rook c2, but first d5. Wow and after White takes only then rook c2 Just explain explain the difference, please. The difference is that in this position Let's say here Black goes like this Of course, it's very difficult to keeping the pen, of course It's very difficult to to see it, but again the natural move Which I would say I would say 9 out of 10 players maybe 95 out of 100 would take on c2 because just a clear pawn, of course, but it's not the best move Taking and the forced and the natural is not not the best so d and Vashil he actually said he considered move d5, but again, it probably happened to him what happened to me against Carolina that I mean, okay, you just it's difficult to resist winning a pawn a clear pawn you know and Well, it's he took a practical decision, but it was just not the the best As black you would have played rook c2 probably as well again, maybe out of 100 players maybe 95 would take Strong place, of course Of course So my so that was in the third round and next round. I was playing Hikaru All of these players are here Vashilin this year. Yes, Maxime Fabiano Hikaru In fact, did you see the man of the city? We did a little compilation video asking some of you some of our top players like yourself a few questions Tanya I think was asking the questions and one of the questions was who would you most like to play here? And I think it was Fabiano said he'd most like to play you because when you play each other Your games always become very interesting and kind of crazy games. No, I actually What would you ask me? Who I would like to beat and I said I would like to To beat Hikaru because he's winning against me All the time No, but it doesn't mean I want to play him It means that if I if I play I would like to I would be pleased to win so so in the fourth round against Hikaru we had a very interesting game. I had this queen sacrifice. I think he didn't really Consider it probably because it looked to me very natural because it's a new move That ed was played and then after it's also probably good bishop p6 rookie eight 94 But of course it looked to me very good to take and then of course white has to Take the queen and then um He made some mistakes So, uh, he so he was somehow in trouble already and then uh b4 and bc So I played here 96 So, uh, again I thought that uh, for example, uh, it cannot be a bad move Looks very natural. So and if he takes then my idea was I don't remember Which rook I was planning to take. I think probably this one and then he has to stop he he has a problem to stop Because first he has to play something like g3 and then I thought here and then bishop d5 Bishop d4 95 or and through b8 would be I thought it was Very good advantage for black And again, uh, I I made a natural move considering that he's forced to take Looks like it. But in fact, he was not forced. He played here and then he could somehow Develop he could play g3 and Castle but again what I missed was that in this position, um In this in this very position Taking is not good. No I had a much stronger move bishop d4 and it looks now black has a very very big advantage Hmm. So again taking is was not good, uh, like the I mean here I made two mistakes first. I thought first I didn't find the best move bishop d4 and then of course I conceded the mathematical change Exchange exchange, right, which was also a mistake Was this queen sacrifice vessel and just quickly go back to when you played knight except was this something you prepared at home No, it's not that I prepared but of course, it's very typical. I I played A game against levon and it was very similar that he he also Played with he took with the knight and I could I could have taken the queen But then it would be still very dangerous. So I it already happened, but I was wide then great I get so But after e4 was he kind of expecting knight before what was he expecting? I think that against against Levon what we played was like this Like this here c5 here He played knight c6. I took knight d5 And now of course, it's the same right similar. Well, so I could go uh e4 and take So he was prepared to I already had this But you didn't play you for no, I did I played e3 And then after queen a5 it was more or less a draw We kind of exchanged But so I knew this idea of queen sack But the the very fact that he thought for so long I think Showed that he didn't really like the The idea and he he was not ready for that But again so again, I here the natural taking was a mistake I mean, I I made a double mistake first I I took And then I because I considered he would take on c8 Like Okay, so why is bishop d4 such a strong move because then Um, I think the the the c file is opened So he I mean after the move bc Somehow he's able to win some couple of tempest that played g3 and bishop e2 castle and his knight is very well placed But if I play bishop d4 my next move is Taking on c5 and then I have also bishop b4 check So black is in a big big trouble. White is in a big trouble already So that was in the fourth fourth round and then finally I think I kind of realized my mistake because That you know the moves we take for granted are not forced And in my fifth round game against Um Dinkley rain, I was better after the opening, but of course he defended and then we reached Let's say this kind of Ending after ruby six, which I I didn't know how to consider was it winning or or not But of course, it's not easy to defend. So I think for example here It's difficult to say if it's If it's winning or not, but I think he started to he allowed me to create some mating threats So I could somehow enter and start to To to threaten his in his time trouble His king and finally looks very unpleasant for black. Yeah, but again here the thing is that Uh We repeat it and it was a mistake because In this position What I I think check here check here And what I simply couldn't immediately realize was in this position when I was calculating Of course, I I saw check Here because I okay, it makes no sense to go to f5 because I have check on f8 What I didn't realize was that in this position You know that immediately, uh, well that of course this was I thought it was a draw because Black checks and then here but again It took me quite a lot of time to realize that in this position. I don't have to take So if I go king h2 He he's not able to you know black is not able to to stop the move king g3 with the idea h4 And only when I realized Only when Only when I realized but of course again, uh, it's very hard to see that somehow. Yeah, but it took me it was The second time to control so After move 60, so it's we were both tired, but finally I could realize it and then he also saw it So but because in this position Apparently king f7 was a draw. Really? Yeah, so we both make made this mistake, but I think he also didn't see that that King h2 was winning so He played this move Instead of bishop h2 in this position After after rook f8 instead of this move He played rook b2 and then after and Rook c7 and g3 he he can't stop the mate right I mean knight g2 bishop g2 is simply knight g2 and And rook c5 mate So I finally learned my From my mistakes and as an end I would like to show another position because I I think it's amazing it's I reached somehow to it It's very hard to train oneself for to find this kind of moves. Oh, yeah, because it's I mean, how do you train for that? Well, it's simply you have to always know that especially now With computers, I think computers they They teach us to look at every single move sometimes. It's We don't have to to believe that there are so many that all everything is forced right So so this is the position I wanted to show the thing is that I believe It's one of the very very very positions where humans are better than computers So I gave this position to several strong grandmasters like paco vallejo salgado and and of course they find they find the the Best move much quicker than the computers really so yeah, and finally just before this tournament My laptop it took it around half an hour to find the best move and it's it's It takes around 20 seconds to all of these grandmasters to realize that this is winning Because after knight takes f5 knight d5 and then somehow For example, this is very funny. This line is winning with the simple move c3 So white wants to play d bishop d4. So For example h6 So bishop d4 is queen g5, but of course you stop it And again the idea is bishop d4 So black has to go c5 for example, and of course now bishop f4 is very strong, but also I like this line For example like this check And now h5 And then you collect So again, I I would like everyone to try on his computer, but I believe that It really takes because from exchange up. I'm not sure if black if white plays differently. I'm not sure if It's winning because if the black If black puts his knight on f5 and then play b6 or bishop b7 or d6 bishop d7 It's really really hard to break black has a very strong Blockade, why did this position come from is it from one of your games? Yes, just preparation and in fact the funny thing was that I found it blindfold. I mean blindfold Yeah, and then he and then It's turned out it was true But again, of course If you put most of the grandmaster, they would find it. I believe but computers. It's really takes Even the strongest engines now it take them Around half an hour. They're almost depth 40 maybe so So again, it's like I believe that computers are stronger in 99 percent of the positions or maybe even if in 19 out of thousand positions, maybe in 990 maybe they they they're stronger, but this special position. I think humans are better still. Yeah, so there's still hope No, I mean in this position I think computer likes to take on g6 because it doubles the points but then but then black goes to f5 and then Once the bishop goes to b7 or d7. It's really really hard to break because It has very good white squares for Very good white square for for his pieces So you have to but of course human realize that you know, it's difficult to jump for exchange up to two-pounds down For computer to realize it is stronger to play with two-pounds down rather than with an exchange up How does it feel?  No mistakes. I mean, you know well, of course it's Of course, there are several effects that I think that the respect Especially the chess fans had for the world champions or the big grand masters. It's been it's lost But you mean of the past or Particularly now now because when we spent Half an hour or 10 minutes over a move and eventually the computer shows it in one second, obviously We can't call ourselves geniuses But but then of course and and again the I think the general level Really has improved really really a lot like again if we see today's round We had on the top boards games between players of around 300 points difference and It was not as easy as it was before many draws on that. So well, but it's normal because the first 10 15 moves are Played the same way by 2300 player And the world champion plays more less the same moves than the first 15 moves. You can't really win so easy Have you noticed the difference in your own career from for example, 10 years ago when you played 2500? I would say when I was playing open, especially 20 25 years ago More than 20 years ago here in Spain. It was really easy to to win many games And I would say the difference was much bigger than now, right? Who would like to ask uh, vessel in a question from our audience? On any of the positions that he's been discussing and Making mistakes or something else about his career anyone neil in the back Aslan It's a pleasure talking to you. It's a pleasure meeting you two questions to you one is Some of your recent interviews you had said this statement that Uh, I realized that There are more important things in life than chess and my philosophy towards chess is a little bit changed and so on Maybe i'm not quoting the right words correct exact words Uh, you have always been a very dynamic player one of the most dynamic players in the history of chess With this change in your personal philosophy Is it possible to play the still the same kind of brand of chess that you always played all these years? Well, I guess it's still possible, but just results are not the same No, I don't think i'm going to change my style because I still like to have Interesting games, but obviously once you train less and less the results sooner late Will go down and actually I even when I won in 2015 in stavanger I had showed good result and even then I said that somehow my brain Was not working as as good as before and and Especially sometimes the memories Collapsing I can't really Remember all these lines because the the information becomes more and more so in disrespect The young players obviously they do have a big advantage compared to us Because I don't think Experience can compensate the The calculation I believe that in 80 90 percent of the games are decided by Tactical blows and tactical mistakes. So it's logical that young players who calculate better They will have the better results And one thing about your technique you are known in the history of chess to be one of the most Let's say prolific exchange sacrifice players Any reason for that? No, not I no, not really No, not really it just It just happened. I I don't have an explanation because they have the There's been this famous Position from Petrosian who played rookie seven two is six But I again I don't Have this explanation. It just happened, you know So any particular player who influenced you the most when you were growing up? Well, you know my first coach he was a big fan of fissure. So In the chess club we were Teaching he was teaching us the king's indian and the night off That's was what fissure was playing and still I I mean i'm My life night of player And king senior I was playing when I was younger So fissure Kasparov obviously because during their first match I was eight I was nine in 84. So I Obviously I grew up with the matches between Kasparov and Karpov and at the beginning I was rooting for Karpov for some reason I don't understand because my style is completely It's much more similar to Kasparov style, but For some reason, I just liked his name I thought Karpov and not Kasparov. I don't know why and But again, it's when you're young when I was nine You you do things you don't really understand why so Tell us a bit Veselin. I'm for some other questions as well about um, Sylvia now Sylvia Daniloff is of course your manager great friend he's been your coach and Companion on your journey since you were young very young boy. I think Fairly young. Don't just a little bit about that. Tell us Sylvia was going to be here. He was going to play I see this here, but he's had to pull out unfortunately. So we'd not be singing this I think we are working since I was 16 or no, I was 16 okay, Sylvia Daniloff. So how is that? No at the beginning he was also coach, you know, and now he's mainly almost just giving general advisors and managing but We started It was very funny because At the end of 1991 Because I was not born in in Sofia in the capital of Bulgaria and Accidentally I saw him and I said I heard that he had some connections to organizing in spain and I told him, okay Why don't you kind of marry manage some? Tournaments for me and then I left and I forgot, you know just I didn't think that was serious and then he just called and we had several tournaments and It's very very lucky that the first one I I took second place and then Something happened in a very strong tournament in Gran Canaria in 1991 Someone dropped and then I took his place and then Kortschnoi was there and I could make this immediately the second Grandmaster norm So I shared the first place with Kortschnoi and I think Franco So I was very lucky that To to immediately have this success and then to be a grandmaster at 17 was a very good age now, of course, I think if you're 15 it's already late, but But 17 was a good day good age for to be a grandmaster then and yeah, and since then of course we had spain was a great Country for chess. There are many many opens and that's what I needed I I and I won many opens and then I also started to get the invitations for closed tournaments. So in one year I could improve my rating and from I would say at the beginning of At the beginning of 1993. I was already in top 20 somehow But it was you know Good good times More questions anyone back Andrew been talking about computers Do you think the world order the ranking order of players would be any different if there wasn't any computers? because some people perhaps rely on preparation perhaps more than others Definitely, I don't think it affects I would probably say that Magnus would still be number one because he Especially if you look at his games, he just doesn't like this long forced opening lines and I would say computers they help the weaker players You know to to start a game in a normal position Of course, then you can still lose, but it will not be a complete disaster at the very beginning so but top 10 I I don't really know It's it's an interesting question. Maybe you should we should just look at the rapid rating rating list and then we realize Maybe who who would have the better results without computers Do you have a favorite game of your investment if you were writing a book of your best games? Have you done that? Is there a book of your best games? I do have No, not really planning yet Just lazy because the thing is If I if I may write a book It will take several months and Just For the moment, I don't plan I I think I have three evergreen games I think in 1995 1996 And also like maybe four obviously the the one with camnik in In In corals when I took this night of seven I think it was because Everybody in the pot for nick moran. Yes, because everybody is saying that kasparov that that game of kasparov against me Yes, which was also great. I can say but compared compared to that game Okay, the game he beat me. It was really amazing game But it didn't have a very big theoretical value, but that game Night of seven. Okay, obviously it's one It's a it's a try for one or two games But it it has a theoretical value Whereas when kasparov beat me it was some pitch and I was completely fine And then the the the next game I would say was really One of my best it was I think they they were all Voted best of the year Against vichy in soffia, I think either 2005 again, I had this night of seven it was I think in soffia until masters 2005 of the queens indian And then against levon In vike in 2006. I think I had this double exchange sacrifice Which and both sacrifices were made on the same square on e4. I think And all these three games. I think they were voted the best game Of the year and also against vallejo in 2014 during the olympiad. I think First round for me. I don't know if it was the first round of the olympiad or my first game in the olympiad also, I think I Sucked queen Like so these are my four favorite games Question yes I'll ask one sure. Well vestlin as a purets player myself the game in 99 did hurt me a lot So it had some theoretical value to me, but that's not my question The continued rise of open events. Do you see this as being a trend or do you see The number of open events the strong open events just saying where they aren't the four or five that exists today I I'm not sure it will Change actually I think that In fact, I right now I actually prefer to play the kind of this kind of events because Our problem is we always play the same guys and at some point it becomes a bit boring and And it becomes becomes too much predictable the the routine you already know more or less The opening because sometimes when we were playing several tournaments in a row just Even sometimes white and black Strong players play the same openings And here you see new faces. So I really prefer Right now. I really prefer the this kind of Opens and a strong opens but with new faces Not more always says that he played so many opens growing up and that helps him today In open tournaments and it sounds like you did the same in spain Do you feel like the open tournaments you played when you were on your rise or helping you in open tournaments today? I I believe everyone played almost everyone played opens Well, it's different of course because in opens you need to win And in close tournaments with plus one or plus two you're already good So Maybe that's the reason we both have this aggressive style somehow and take risks What's your opinion of Wesley's serve you I mean it looks like he's going to win tartar. I mean I mean, okay, I just you know Two years ago when they asked me How how much time I give to magnus as a world champion. I said around 10 years But and in st. Louis 2015 I think Wesley shared last place and he couldn't win a single game and then next Next year he was clear first and now he's he has all these fantastic results But I'm I'm quite happy for him because From one understand also he had a very tough childhood and It looks like Not only he's a talented player, but he's also a fighter, you know, he's he could somehow grow up and So it really But it you know it It's changed so much in two years or even in one year that Who knows what will happen in next year? Maybe this new chinese Boy will also have these fantastic results or someone else But it again when I It didn't look of course, you see very strong players But sometimes even when I was playing at the beginning against magnus Of course, you feel that he He will he's very strong, but it just went to very quick he was Suddenly He starts with everything, you know, I didn't believe Both for magnus and for Wesley that they will Have these results so quickly I thought it that would take them Maybe a couple more years In the most recent After that you said something to the effect of you're not going to be kind of playing in the For the world championship cycle anymore. That's how I heard it the last round. Whatever you said something to the effect of that No, I mean the only the only idea for me to qualify For the candidates was to have chances to win. I mean, it's not like you go and Say, okay 50 percent would be a good result It's not a close tournament It's a close tournament But there's a too big difference between the first and the second place and the first and the rest of the places I would say so I I did badly in The last two candidates and again, maybe I somehow realized that Even if I qualify if I could qualify again, it's That It's Not a big big deal. I mean I was seriously considering not to go to Moscow actually so I my follow-up and that was like Madness has also been saying something something to the effect of the current cycle the way it is I don't know. He was not happy. He wanted a it felt like a Kind of a more rapid like or a more frequent like a yearly World championship type thing Whereas you are I think one of your best ever results was in a tournament format where you kind of wiped everybody clean So there are multiple formats available It will um a different format entices you back into the world championship cycle Uh, but I mean I've thought about the these cycles and it's a Never-ending story. I I don't think the perfect cycle exists because I would say A tournament is more spectacular than the match because you have more games but But the problem of the tournament is this once you start badly like it happened to me then you and you go for For the first place and but once you realize You don't have chances for the first place then you just lose motivation And for example, what I like about knockout is that as long as you play you can be the winner of this knockout as looking I mean if you Old everyone who is still playing in the knockout events has the chance Has the chance to win it And in a tournament, it's not the same and again match. It's okay But with one game, I don't think it sometimes it's not so spectacular You know, sometimes the games are boring and it's too technical, you know, they play especially now two two openings, uh, everyone is very solid with black with um as in Carlson karakin, they were both perfectly prepared with white with black.  I I don't have a problem with that Do you still love ches vs lind you still does it still Excite you and you still get passionate about tournaments or Games and and you know that fire you still got that fire for chess honestly not so much because I think the what is happening is that If we were considering that chess was art science and sport Now the art is kind of disappearing. So we only have the science and and sports left But and especially with seven hours I I believe it has to be reduced the time control. I I believe honestly it has to be reduced because the problem of the Preparation of the seven hours imagine a situation where you find a good very interesting novelty Or some very interesting idea in the opening, but that is a bit dubious The problem is that in a in a rapid game You would probably play it because even if your opponent reacts correctly Then he would probably spend too much time and then it's already a time travel and it's not over But in a seven time seven hour time control you don't risk So it's like the same effect as the golden goal in in football instead of Asking you to to try to to score actually this the Classical time control makes you more conservative That's what I don't like and that is the reason I I would say that it has to be reduced even maybe for world championship matches Can you give us a number what? I would say Like our hour and a half Each For the rest of the game for the whole game Something like that and what about people that would say but then you can't play end games properly You don't have enough time left when you get to an ending to yeah, that is true, but The thing about the quality is that quality just very very very little Number of people realize what the quality is So people like time travel so and And sometimes also the quality is boring like If you look at the match again Carson against character half of the games They were made they were Correct games and the the reason they were correct games They were correct was that more or less it was all prepared So okay, and again, it's correct, but I don't think people liked it And that's and I believe that if it goes like this So if we have now the first 15 20 moves Already prepared in five ten years It will be the first 30 moves and then we go on and on and so and what about Fisher random? Are you a fan of that? Not really the reason well I understand obviously that it has Some idea but what I don't like is that somehow chess Is also kind of a culture and it has history So especially for I believe that professionals Chess players they would adapt to a fisher random, but The ones that will suffer were the chess fans because a chess fan he he likes. I imagine I don't know Go to to work and then after that he He goes to the chess club and he wants to play the french Because he has a book and he studied the french, but now it's not going to to happen simply So and of course, I think that all this history about The the Improvements of some lines and the chevening and the Sicilian it's part of the culture of the Of the game of chess. So if you change to fish around them, that will disappear Anyone who hasn't asked the question or any final questions maybe Before we wrap up. Yeah Before we pass the way marked our rescue spoke of a very intense and successful training session he had with you Can you share some memories of him? Yeah, it was Actually, it was very funny. I spent with around two two weeks with him in Moscow and I thought I was already my rating was 26 70 maybe I don't remember Not 2700 but then with the inflation I was close to top 10. So I thought it was I was quite strong already, but especially the first days. He showed me some positions. I couldn't really Find any of the solutions So but then I improved No, I would say he he exactly, you know, uh he's He actually considered that the most important thing was to play well I mean and opening was not that important and he's he in a way. He's uh, He's correct that again, as I said 90 maybe around 90 or 80 90 percent of the games are decided by tactical mistakes I mean, even if you're in a worse position and you start to defend and play well You's probably still hold it. I mean, but If you make a statistics look, I I'm certain be sure that That 80 90 percent because of tactical mistakes So if you if you don't blunder Then you just probably don't lose and maybe westerly He's a good example of that because he's young and he calculates. Well, he doesn't always find the best move He doesn't blunder big things and that's the reason he has all these results now And do you blunder sometimes? Last year was, you know, like Two two full boards with all the pieces Last year for sure, yeah Any final question before we um What can I just ask you one question? How's your relationship with cram like these days? And is it would you difficult or doesn't uh, well, it's not no, it's not difficult. Simply. We don't speak Okay, no, uh, same as same as it was before, right? So no change no change Any final question for um, best thing before Meristrip overrated Okay, well, maybe we should end now. Um, yeah best and thank you very much for showing those fascinating positions and talk about blunders


Hi, my name is Demian, and I work at Google as a partner engineer. This is the first video of a two-part series on the topic of progressive web apps on sites that consist of multiple origins. In this talk, we will review the challenges for achieving a unified PWA experience in multi-origin sites. In the second video of the series, we will take a look at the opposite case, developers that want to build multiple PWAs, taking advantage of the same domain name. Take into account that all the use cases, APIs, and techniques that we will cover belong to the open web, so they are not tied to a specific platform, and they affect PWAs in any form factor, like mobile and desktop devices. Now, let's get started with this topic. You might have seen many sites where the user starts the journey in the main origin, for example, the home page, and as they navigate, they end up visiting different subdomains during a single session. Architectural decisions like this one often have important long-term implications on a PWA project. There are different reasons why many sites are built in this way. We can consider some of them as acceptable practices while others are not recommended. Let's start with the good uses of multiple origins. The first one is localization. For example, using a country code top-level domain to separate versions of your PWA to be served in different countries. You can also use subdomains to divide sites targeted to different locations, for example, specific cities. As we will see with these types of configuration, since users don't move frequently across origins, it's not a big problem. The second one is independent web apps. That means using different subdomains to build PWAs, whose proposed differs considerably from each other and from the site on the main origin. Here again, the user starts their journey in one origin or app and usually stays there for the whole session. So we don't consider this one as a bad practice. We will explore this use case in depth in the second video of this series. Finally, some developers separate common sections in subdomains. Well, this is not always a good practice. We can think of it as acceptable for some use cases. For example, if a company has multiple web apps and all of them use the same login flow, it is not unusual to move this section to their own origin to centralize the traffic instead of replicating this functionality in every web app. As discussed, these examples can be considered good or acceptable practices. But if you are not doing any of these things, it's likely that using a multi-origin site architecture will be a disadvantage when building progressive web apps. Let's take a look now at some examples of non-recommended use cases for multiple origins. The common one is arbitrarily separating site sections of the web app in multiple origins that should be part of a unified experience. For example, a new site with each subsection, like sports, politics, and culture, belongs to a subdomain or an e-commerce site that has the homepage at example.com where the listings, product, and shopping cart pages are in different subdomains. In this example, the user will likely move across multiple origins during a single session. And as we will see, this can be disruptive for a PWA experience. Sites sometimes have multiple origins due to legacy reasons, mostly outside of the developer's control. For example, before most of the web migrated to HTTPS, some sites had only certain sections in SSL, like login and checkout, and use subdomains to separate these more secure sections from others. After they migrated the rest of the site to HTTPS, they never moved these sections back to the main origin. As you can imagine, these types of legacy decisions do not currently provide any advantages, but they can bring negative consequences. Finally, we have also heard about organizational needs. For example, companies use subdomains to isolate the work of different teams or use that separation to simplify the reporting of analytics data across different parts of the site. These decisions don't respond to technical needs or constraints, but to external factors. So, as expected, might not end up being good from a technical standpoint. So far, we have reviewed some good and bad uses of multiple origins. Let's now take a step back. What is exactly an origin? And why having multiple origins across your site can make it hard to achieve a unified PWA experience? An origin is a combination of three things. The first one is a scheme, also known as the protocol. For example, HTTP or HTTPS. The second one is the host name. And the third one is the board, as long as it's specified. If any of these three parts is different, then the origins are entirely different. Let's suppose you're the owner of example.com and you create a subdomain at subdomain.example.com. Using a subdomain means that the host names are different. For that reason, these are completely different origins, even when they have the same domain name. So, if you were expecting that using subdomains across your PWA could not prevent you from achieving a unified experience, you might find that in reality, the level of isolation between them is actually more strict than you thought. This is because of the same origin policy. This policy imposes restrictions for sharing things like service workers, storage and permissions across origins. This might not be a huge problem in a site like this, when the user spends most of the time navigating pages in example.com and only visits the login page once in a while. But what happens in a site like this one, where the user frequently moves across different origins during a single session. First, achieving a consistent offline experience across the site can be more difficult. This is because service workers are tied to a single origin. So if you want to provide an offline experience in every part of the site, you will need to implement at least one service worker per origin. This is not only difficult to maintain, but also registering and having multiple service workers running consumes additional resources like memory and CPU. Achieving a great performance across your PWA can also be more difficult.  That also makes it hard to share local data across different parts of your PWA. Permissions are also scoped to origins. This means that if a user granted a given permission to example.com, it won't carry over to other origins like subdomains. Imagine having to ask for example for the geolocation permission multiple times during a single session, or for a video calling PWA asking for the audio and camera permissions in different parts of the PWA. Finally, another related issue is that when you navigate across origins in a full screen PWA, you will see an out of scope bar indicating that you are moving outside of the main PWA experience. Having seen all these limitations, if you are going to have one take away from this talk, remember this one. If the goal is to build a single PWA experience, avoid dividing the site into subdomains. If the site is already built in that way, migrating to a single origin is always the best approach. And what happens if you already have a site built on multiple origins and you can't migrate to a single one? Here are some workarounds that you can explore. If you have a site like this one where the user spends most of their time at example.com and moves to different subdomains rather infrequently, you can keep all your service worker and cache in logic in the most frequently visited origin. Most of the time, when the users lose connection, they will be navigating these pages. In cases like these where there are many subdomains, you can check what are the ones that are most frequently visited and are your caching and service worker logic only there. Keep in mind that if you decide to add more than one service worker, this can drain more resources from your user's devices. But if you end up choosing that route, our advice is to keep service worker installation lightweight to avoid making users pay a big installation cost every time a new service worker is installed. In other words, only pre-cached resources that are absolutely necessary. From the point of view of installability, nothing prevents you from prompting your users to install your PWA so they can have a quick access icon and enjoy navigating in full-screen mode. Just make sure that you are showing the prompt only on the main PWA origin to avoid making the user install multiple PWAs. You can check out the most up-to-date install criteria for PWAs in this link. Finally, to mitigate the problem of showing an out-of-the-scope bar when navigating to other origins in full-screen mode, there is a new API that you can explore. It is called the Scope Extensions API. Scope extensions allow sites that control multiple subdomains and top-level domains to be presented as a single web app. To implement it, add a Scope Extensions App Manifest member to the main origin's manifest, indicating the list of origin to extend the scope too. Each of the listing origins has to confirm the association with the web app using a well-known web app origin association configuration file and pointing back to the main origin. The Scope Extensions API just moved to the origin trial phase. Check out this link to know more about it. And this is pretty much all we have for this talk. If you want to know more about this topic, check out the companion article to this talk about multi-origin PWAs. And don't forget to watch the second video of the series, where we will analyze the case where having multiple subdomains can play to your advantage if you want to build multiple PWAs using the same domain name. I hope you have enjoyed this talk. Thanks for watching.


Seagate downgraded by Barclays? Yeah, look, I mean, it marches a week, marches a week. We're on Western Digital for Action Alerts because it's a very specific situation. I believe that they're going to get the Toshiba Flash business, who is their partner because they bought Sandisk. If that's the case, stock goes to 100. So we're not going to sell Western Digital off of Seagate's weakness. That would be a big mistake. Don't forget, Seagate is disk drive. And Western Digital is disk drive plus flash. And it's flash that's tight, not disk drive.


Bismillah Alhamdulillah Alhamdulillah Alameen Wassalamu alaikum wa barak ala Sayyidina Muhammadin wa ala Alihi wa sahbihi wa salim As-salamu alaikum wa rahmatullah wa barakatuhu Alhamdulillah Hope everybody's doing well So we are going to continue this series now inshallah on Deceptive Desires We've been talking about a different desire every week And today inshallah we are going to be talking We're going to do a quick review and then we'll be diving into a specific desire Which is the focus on the desire that the human being asked to always be right and to argue And also how that stems in relation to the desire for anger So a couple of things What we've been talking about so far is basically this idea That the human being can either go in a good direction or a bad direction The human being who follows their lower desires Their lower appetites, their shahawat They will end up generally going in a bad direction So these include the desires that we've been talking about That following the desire for food in the wrong direction The desire for sex in the wrong direction The desire for money in the wrong direction The desire for fame and power and argumentation and to be right and all these other things That you and I can follow those desires and we can go in the wrong direction If we follow those desires and we don't channel them correctly At the same time there's a reason why we even have desires And if we follow and channel the desires in the correct way Inshallah we are going to use what Allah created for us in a positive way And to hopefully ascend closer and closer to Him So the one who restrains themselves from doing what's haram We all have this understanding and know this They are going to benefit And the one who gives in to these desires They are going to be harmed And Allah says in the Qur'an That destroyed or sorry successful is the one who purifies themselves And destroyed is the one who doesn't So our job is to try to purify ourselves And what better purification than to try and purify our nafs So what is the nafs? We've been talking about the nafs a little bit The nafs is known as the lower self This is the lower part of us that inclines towards following and doing haram things Until it's refined So the nafs goes through training The more spiritually trained somebody is The more the nafs is going to improve And eventually the nafs can get to high stages Known as for example as mentioned in Surah al-Fajr Nafs al-Mutsma'idna The tranquil soul Where the soul will actually be in a state of accepting Allah's decree And assisting you and I in accepting Allah's decree And being in a state of contentment However in the early stages What is known as nafs al-Amarah Mentioned in Surah al-Yusuf And the other early stages This is the evil commanding soul And the nafs will follow its base desires And take you in the wrong direction So you and I have to work on ourselves Now here is a very very important thing Just because somebody is starting to practice religion Or has become religious Or has signs of religiosity Does not mean that they are refining their nafs The two are not always linked If they are following the right path If they are following the right types of knowledge If they are doing the right types of spiritual practices In line with the sunnah of the Prophet ﷺ Attempting to be aligned with the akhlaa And the character of the Prophet ﷺ Okay, that's a very very good thing However, if they are following a very very outward focused harsh way of religion That everything has to be their way or the highway And yes they might be worshiping a lot But is the worship really benefiting them Then you have open questions about If their acts are actually benefiting them Because as you become more purified Your character should improve And what is the evidence of this? The evidence is a hadith of the Prophet ﷺ Where the sahaba came to him And they were impressed with a woman A woman who used to fast a lot Extra fasts And she would pray a lot of extra prayers Specifically the hadjid prayer The prayer known as the prayer at the last part of the night Very very virtuous things for somebody to do And so they were impressed by her However, sahaba mentioned that She was also rude to her neighbor And had this kind of rudeness And the Prophet ﷺ said That she is in the fire He said that she is in the fire Because even though she might have done this worship The akhlaa, the character wasn't there And it comes in the hadith that the wadiest deed On the Day of Judgment is one's good character One's character will be the wadiest deed On the Day of Judgment And the Quran magnifies good character as well So let's examine that It's not just about how much worship you do You can do the basic amounts of worship And a little bit more But work on yourself Work on having good character Try to work on mitigating your desires And you can be in a very good place And you can do a lot of worship And all these things But if you're not doing it in the right way And you're getting puffed up Thinking you're all that Thinking you're better than everybody Is it really even helping you? Is it really benefiting you? So this is something to keep in mind So we're trying to talk about just briefly today Is this desire to be right? This is a desire that in the world of social media In the world of the way things happen now on Twitter And on Facebook And on Instagram And on TikTok And even in the comments And these different threads Everybody wants to be right And this was the case This has been the case throughout history But now everybody has to prove themselves I want to be right It's my way or the highway It's about me Anytime you hear somebody really magnifying themselves Me, me, me Know that they are really At a subtle level worshiping themselves They're worshiping their nuts They're worshiping their opinion A person though who's humble enough To accept that okay A lot of the course is the only one in control And there could be a different way to do things They at the end of the day Are following the kind of correct Approach that we should be taking in our religion So what is this desire to be right all the time? This is a sickness This is a sickness deep inside the human being And remember from different desires Stem different sins So the sins are kind of like stems And the desires are like roots So the sexual desire when uncontrolled Can result in the sin of adultery Can result in the sin of Xena Can result in the sin of looking at pornography And so on and so forth The desire when it is uncontrolled The desire for the desire of anger And the desire to be right It results in the sin of arguing It results in the sin of yelling at people It results in the sin of trying To always prove yourself And maybe you're even backbiting people Because you're saying Oh did you hear what they said? She or she totally wrong And you're just talking bad about them all the time This is what the desire to be right leads to And it's very present in the world that we live in So there are different categories of this desire You have those who have this desire Who argue about it Who argue about worldly matters So I have to be right about Okay I'm talking about politics My opinion is right My party is right We saw this manifest in the last election And we see this manifest throughout the United States right now That there is very very little cooperation Between different parties Simply because they believe that their way Has to be the way There is no such thing as compromise for them Because it's about their way And that links to other desires Not only the desire to be right But the desire to win The desire to be in charge And so on and so forth So we can see how much these desires Really end up ruining us At the same time At the same time There are different ways That you and I can manifest this desire In a worldly sense So it might manifest in politics It could manifest at work It could be in our own homes We might Oh I have to be right With regards to like you might be just You know young and arguing with your parents Or vice versa And even though you might have a sense That the other side is kind of On the verge of the truth You because you are sticking to your point It's like no it's about me I see this happen from time to time right People who like have this arrogance to them That it is difficult for them to admit That they are wrong about something And it's very much a cultural practice And generally speaking Many of us men We have this a lot I would say that right There is a kind of general sense that You know I'm the boss I'm in charge I'm right And the prophet's son taught us humility He taught us that being wrong is okay And Imam Malik said that saying I don't know is half of knowledge So you know there is no concept In our religion of having to prove yourself Always in to be right So that can happen in so many different areas It can happen at work It can happen in of course You know at work and in job It can happen in the political arena It can happen with family It can happen broadly with extended family So many ways it can happen Then there are people who It's about arguing for religious matters This is far more dangerous Far more dangerous I have to be right when it comes to my view On the religion When it comes to my specific approach Or even if you follow Madhav It's only my Madhav that's correct It's all this argumentation Argumentation does not have any place In this religion And we have to work on ourselves To get this desire to be right If we want to really purify ourselves Remember Allah says that successful Is the one who purifies themselves And destroyed is the one who doesn't So we have to try to purify ourselves We have to try to work on ourselves In order for us to actually grow And succeed in this religion So when it comes to arguing About religious matters What does this mean? You do have many, many examples Of things that have become controversial Unfortunately because so many people Have tried to fit their framework in Here's something to keep in mind Or sorry the religion into their framework You have two types of people You have somebody who They want to know the truth And they will fit their religious practice Into whatever the truth ends up being Okay And then you have somebody Who has a very specific framework in mind And who will fit the religion Into their framework And who will exclude this And include this In order to fit it into their framework Now the danger of this Later methodology And why it's so problematic Is because there are groups of people Unfortunately today Who have major prominence In the Muslim community In the Muslim world Who literally had a very specific View of religion in mind And they took out everything It is that they didn't like And they just made stuff up Oh this is weak This is fabricated Because I don't like it Not because of anything else Maybe the great Imams of the past Had accepted a certain Hadid that had accepted certain statement No I don't like it It isn't aligned with my view It has to be my view Right And their arrogance And their following their desires Got them down a path Where they became Very very harsh with everything And it still manifests today Where if your practice Doesn't fit their very narrow view And their desire to be right Has become so magnified That you are excluded There are even movements And the leaders of these movements That would say Everybody who does not follow My way is a kathar Even though there are So many different Differences of opinion That you could follow About how should you do A certain religious act And what not But again The desire to be right Took them over And they were They killed people They straight up Muslims killed Muslims In the In the The kind of disguise Of I'm right And I'm on the religious truth This is a very dangerous desire And it ruins people It ruins people And it's very related to The Hadid that the prophet Someri said That I fear more More than the Dajal Than Antichrist I fear for you Evil scholars Ulema Asu That these scholars who Literally They will fit the religion Into their framework It's about themselves It's about their nuts It's about their ego It's about their fame It's about hypocrites Like the hypocritical acts That's very dangerous And it's become A disease in the Umma today Such that you and I Will see very Just someone's Just trying to worship I'll give you an example Tonight Tonight is known as Layla to the Isra al-Miraj Mashallah The MCC will have A beautiful program With Dr. Ali Atayya And acclaimed scholar He teaches at Zaytuna College And he lectures In many other places as well Including MCC On the Just reflections on Isra al-Miraj What took place on this night This is the night Of the 27th of Rajab We are in the Blessed month of Rajab We have just Alhamdulillah Entered this blessed night And it's good to talk About the events That took place on this night It's good to Remind the Muslims Allah says Fadaqir Inna dhikra Tanfa'a al-Mu'minid Reminding benefits the believers Right? But you have a group You have groups of Muslims Who? It's about their way So because they don't They don't know Oh, this is how You should do certain things Okay, they're going to You start to have people Who say no You shouldn't practice Anything on this night There's no need to Single out any Specific nights of worship There's no proof For this So on and so forth And just continue The argument Same thing Same groups of people Do it for Nis Shaban They do it for The danger of this It's one thing If you're really sincere And you're really just like Okay I really, really firmly believe At the bottom of my heart That every single thing That I do has to be Like in line with the Very, very, very narrow methodology Of how I do things Okay, you're welcome to do that But then at the same time That group of people Like you should You should definitely Stop watching television You should get off Of all social media You should probably Stop driving cars You should probably Stop using watches To tell the time To tell the prayer time Because all of these things Will not fit the narrow methodology Or the kind of innovation Methodology that somebody Is kind of fit their view in But that's not going to happen Because it's only when it comes to My desire to be right Right? I have to prove myself And then religious argumentation Begins This happens all the time In the community This is a big problem And the way we respond to this is We should not engage in argumentation We should not I see it all the time In YouTube threads And all these different threads People just arguing back and forth Back and forth as though you forgot That we're brothers and sisters That we are Muslims That we are supposed to be united That we have enough people Outside of our umma Who are going to hate on us That we don't need to hate From within That if you disagree You are entitled to disagree And you can have your opinion But disagree respectfully And just leave it Right? Just let people do their own thing That we're living in a time When people are just Barely trying to hold on to faith So stop trying to fit everybody Into the narrow technical view That you want to follow Right? Like let's be a little bit It's called magnanimity Let's be a little bit magnanimous With regards to our approach To other people And try to be generous And try to be open to harm Rather than trying to shove everybody How it doesn't fit our narrow approach This is what happens With the desire to be right And these people They push people away From the religion They push people away And it comes in narration That a people never went astray After they were upon guidance Except when they took to arguing Right? And even one of the scholars The great scholars Imam al-Ozai He said if Allah willed evil for people He would give them argumentation And prevent them from action So you'll have many people A very very special time Comes in the religion All they spend this All that time They spend arguing about it Instead of just worshiping Just go make dua Go pray Go do something useful Or just at least not arguing It'll be better Just remain silent Right? As it comes in narration Speak good or remain silent Right? There's no need to always be talking And arguing about Just trying to get your opinion across But this happens So we have to control this desire We have to work on this desire We have to work on ourselves So the way that we need to approach this Right? It's first and foremost to realize That when it comes to matters of dunya When it comes to you know Politics and work and sports And all these things We should engage in discussions If we want But these are like I mean come on These are petty things Let's not let disagreements Get in great risks between us Let's try and be reasonable With our conversations And let's just be okay With being wrong Or be open to hearing different perspectives That's the kind of background But when it comes to And so that's there with dunya However when it comes to religion We have to know There is no room for argumentation If we are not scholars And we are not scholars And so we really shouldn't be arguing We should know That we need to have Assume that methodology and everything So if you want to be right Let's say you have this desire to be right And you want to prove your point The way in which you go about proving If you believe your point Is the correct religious way Which means it's the way The Prophet Salaam practice The way in which you go about Proving your point Must be aligned with The dunya as well So the methodology has to be correct And the fact that you're Presenting has to be correct You cannot go and prove your point And then be arrogant Yella people Get angry Get mad Use slurs Call people names And say my point though is my point I mean I'm on the truth I'm following the sunnah How are you following the sunnah If your methodology is not in line With the sunnah Show me one time Where the Prophet Salaam argued Show me one time Where his Just I have to be right Got in the way No, he didn't even have that This was one of the famous nights On this Ramiraj Where we know his blessed heart Salaam was actually washed All of these things were washed away From him Salaam A perfect human being So what does that mean? It means that we need to work on ourselves We need to work on our hearts We need to work on our no-foods We need to work on our egos We need to stop thinking That it's my way or the highway We need to humble ourselves We cannot be so puffed up All the time Walking around Just looking for people to make mistakes So we can call them out This has to go away I know so many people Who have been pushed away from Salaam By those of us Who might act in this way And we ask Allah for forgiveness If we've ever pushed somebody away Because of this methodology But we have to work on this So a couple of things to keep in mind Ways to attain this desire to be right Number one Really recognize the danger For you to always be praised Or for you to always be at the forefront Or for you to always be right That's not a good thing It's not a good thing In Western society it's a good thing Because everybody The people don't operate with the afterlife in mind But it's not a good thing for us In our context In the Islamic context To always have to be right Because we know it's a desire Knowledge is the first step So once you know that this is a desire Don't follow it down the wrong direction Where does the desire to be right come in When it comes to be on the haq You want to be on the truth That's a good thing Alhamdulillah If you want to follow the truth You want to really learn How does this religion really work I want to learn the religion in the best way possible Alhamdulillah That's a good place The desire to be on the right path is good But the desire to say Now now I'm following the Deen Now everything I do is the right way Everything somebody else does is the wrong way We can't do that We cannot do that Your kids might do things differently than you As long as it's within the permissible The permissible boundaries that the scholars have created And including the differences In the opinion that the scholars have created Say Alhamdulillah that they are still believing And that they are doing that They are not going to follow every little thing They might get disappointed at certain things That's okay But know that it is a test for you and I Allah says that He will test us with all these aspects He will test us with our wealth And our children And within ourselves And with other people We will be tested So we have to ask Allah for patience And we cannot let this desire to be right And to be to win all the time Get in the way The second thing to do Is to work on our anger Usually the negative aspects of this They result in angry argumentation Angry arguing And it's a problem So we have to work on our anger How do we do that? The Prophet ﷺ told us that If when you get angry He tells you to say Alhamdulillah And he said if you are standing Sit down If you are sitting Lie down That anger is a fire Like from the fire of shaitan And it makes you rise Get up See people ever get angry And they say They want to fight They say What did you say to me And they start to get up And you can see They are getting puffed So calm down And then he said If you do that And also If it doesn't work We will do with cold water Because cold water will extinguish the fire No When you are about to get into an argument And when your desire to be right Is manifesting To leave the situation Forgetting the exact verse That when the ignorant approaches you Alu Salama Say peace When the ignorant person just wants to argue Like tell me about this Tell me about your proofs for this Tell me about this Every single thing is about arguing You know they are not coming With a very humble approach There is one thing when someone comes into you And you know You said this name Or you know I am learning something And I just was wondering How do I think about this Like I heard one thing from one person What are the different proofs For this type of approach Mashallah That person is really trying to learn And somebody coming And just being like You this way is wrong Everything you are saying is wrong Your approach is wrong This is an innovation This is a bidah Now my approach is the correct way And show me why you get this wrong It's a disease Just ignore people like that Just ignore them Just say Allah Say Allah and leave them to their idol talk Just leave them to that Because that won't benefit you I will tell you that much It will not benefit you enough If the scholars want to discuss it The differences of opinion Mashallah They do that already So let's let them do that For us it's not worth it Don't let the desires to be right And religious matters get in the way So taming the anger Is very important here Third is analyze the issue And think about Is it worth reading Me really like having to be right Right And is it really worth my time And is it worth me getting into sin Because when you start arguing And anger comes in the way You are getting into sin You are creating animosity You are disrupting things You are disrupting things Between yourself and You are disrupting a societal harmony You've ever been in like Where does this happen a lot And maybe we've got We've all been in quarantine For a while So we haven't gone Maybe at the airport Or like sometimes I've seen this on the subway Back when we used to Be able to ride the subway That something small will happen Everybody's quiet And doing their own thing Two people like Disagree on something And boom Arguments start And everybody's impacted The entire harmony Of the situation has been messed up This happens sometimes At airports But any time When people are kind of In intense mood This happens Sometimes it happens Unfortunately even in our own Communities and our own Massage So what does that mean Don't disrupt Other people's harmony If you have inner harmony I will tell you this You will not be the person Who's disrupting The outward harmony Because your inner harmony Will be a light That brings harmony To everybody else But if you don't have Inner harmony You're just going to go out And look to pick fights You're going to try to pick Everybody apart Argue here Argue here Argue here My way of the highway Every single situation That is a disease I highly recommend to Yourself To you To myself First and foremost And to all of us We have to work on ourselves To get rid of that disease It will destroy us It will destroy us It will mess us up As an umma It will create problems It will create animosity It will create tension And it is a desire That just like these Other desires That control Like the sexual desire And the food desire All these other ones We will start doing Many haram things And we do not want to be In that book We don't And people will This one is to a degree Very problematic Also because people will Just hate us too So like You know We're going to be in Major trouble with other People as well And we will create A dissension amongst people So if anybody has Any questions Feel free to post them To this chat We're about to end InshaAllah If anybody has any questions Or anything I can get to those InshaAllah So those are really The ways that we should Approach this And lastly All of these desires Can be controlled With us doing The following things With us Doing an abundant amount Of thicker With us Fasting Often with the right Intention And with us Appealing to Allah And really turning to Him And ideally In the later parts Of the night And begging the friend To help us That ya Allah Get rid of this Those are the general Over-the-counter tours That the scholars prescribe Right That try to And in this case So the fourth one Actually that's also Prescribed is to Limit the amount That you talk So that doesn't mean We don't talk ever But when you're about To get into an argument Just zip it I know my Desire to be right Is going to manifest Right So let's work on ourselves Let's try to do these things And when that comes up When a topic comes up Just say You know what I'm just going to leave this I'm not going to Like I'm not going to engage I'm going to leave it Because Allah Will appreciate if I leave it We know that famous story And we'll Insha'Allah end with this And we can't mention briefly Mr. Amiraj We know this famous story Of Sayyed Nambu Bakar Sadiq That one time He was in the masjid And Somebody was Insulting him And He was The Prophet S.A.W. was with him And someone insulted him The Prophet S.A.W. stood by And he was The Prophet S.A.W. Was actually standing by And I believe the narration Said he was smiling And this person The Prophet S.A.W. Didn't say anything He kept doing it He didn't say anything He kept doing it And Finally The Prophet S.A.W. Still listening and smiling And finally The person insults him again And Sayyed Nambu Bakar Sadiq That he Responds to defend himself And at that moment The Prophet S.A.W. Went And he left The Nambu Bakar Catches up And the Prophet S.A.W. Said This person was saying You were there And then why did you leave He said Because when you were silent Right There were angels there Responding on your behalf But when you decided to Right Say something And engage Shaitan came And Shaitan and the Prophet Cannot be in the same room Right So And I'm paraphrasing This is the hadith here But That's more of an indication Right Look at What the Prophet S.A.W. Is teaching us here Just don't engage I'm not talking about In categories where You have to respond Or somebody's like Getting you or your family Into a difficult situation Or into trouble Or any situations of abuse Or talk Or anything I'm talking about just when people Just want to argue Improve themselves Right Just don't respond It's a desire Don't You shouldn't follow it I shouldn't follow it And don't let someone else Follow it Insha'Allah We ask that Allah help us We ask that Allah assist us We ask that Allah facilitate Goodness and care for us And allow us to control our Nuffs And allow us to Work on ourselves And that he All of our intentions That are good Us from following Or any evil intentions Or evil thoughts that we have As-Salaamu Alaykum Wa-Salaamu Alaykum Wa-Salaamu Alaykum Wa-Salaamu Alaykum Wa-Salaamu Alaykum Just briefly If anybody has questions Please post them on the chat We'll take them now And one thing to mention So tonight is a Blessed night Isra'ul Meraj M.C.C. will have a program Just in about 30 minutes Also streamed on YouTube Live And I think Facebook Live Check it out Insha'Allah Just briefly about this night It's a very, very special night It's a night That the Prophet S.A.W. Ascended to the Heavens from Mecca to Jerusalem to the heavens. And this is the night in which he was gifted the prayer and he was gifted the prayer directly. It didn't come in the same form of revelation through the same methods that the Quran came. No, the Prophet's name was gifted the prayer. And I'm sure the Dr. Ali Akhira will get into this, but there was this whole conversation the Prophet's name came with 50 prayers. He went and said the Musa alaih salam told him, Yeruma cannot do 50. And he went back in increments of five or 10. There was like this kind of back and forth until Allah eventually legislated five. And so the Musa alaih salam said, Yeruma cannot do five. And the Prophet's name said, I'm too shy to go back. And he accepted five prayers. Allah said it is five with a reward of 50. So use this night to connect to Allah. There is not any specific Ibadat that I'm aware of that we're supposed to do on this night, but it is a good night just like all the nights are, all the nights of Rajab especially. Good nights to just pray, good night to make Abad Nintuha, good night to learn about the events that took place. And it's a good night to make Dua for yourself and for the Ummah of the Prophet's Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam. And just to overall remember how much he Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam did for us. That one of the most amazing aspects of this night was that when he was in this conversation with Allah the Prophet's Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam, according to most of the opinions of this Ulema, he met Allah on this night. And Allah says, when we say in our prayer, Atayatulillahi, that whole up to the end that he's Allah says, That we repeat that, we follow that.  And the Prophet said, Peace be upon us, And all of the righteous servants. So when he was in this amazing, intimate meeting with Allah, he Sallallahu Alaihi Wasallam didn't just think about himself. He thought about the whole Ummah. He said, Peace be upon us, right? That's us. Hopefully we can fall into that category. Even if we're not righteous, and you know, I'm definitely not there, but hopefully I can just fall into that Asalaamu Alaihina and may Allah eventually make us from the righteous, right? But look at that. He remembered all of us. So the least we can do is remember his Ummah and our Dua regularly and not argue. Don't waste time arguing about anything tonight or in any of the nights. Rajab is here. Shaaban is coming up. There will be a group of people who try to argue about Shaaban and its merits and this Shaaban. Just don't engage. Ramadan is then coming up. Alhamdulillah, our Ummah is united about Ramadan at least I think. And don't argue about moon sighting. Don't argue about any of that stuff. Just worship Allah. Follow whatever it is you're down to it. Ask Allah for guidance. Worship him. Remember all of us in your Dua's may Allah make this time easy for you. Full of life, full of care, full of abundant, abundant, abundant openings for you and your family and cure any of you and any of us who are going through any difficulty or move any anxieties and depressions and problems and sicknesses and issues that we might have and allow us to have abundant secrets and blessings poured upon us on this night and all the other nights. Allahumma barakah ala fi Rajab wa Shaaban. Wa bi-lifna Ramadan. Wa sallallahu alayhi wa sallam wa barakah ala Sayfum Muhammadin wa ala alayhi wa sallam Alhamdulillahi rabbil alameen. Jazakum ala khair. Do not see any questions. People say salamu alaykum. As-salamu alaykum salam. Alhamdulillahi. Thank you for the comments. Alhamdulillah. So if there's no question we'll just wait another 30 seconds. And inshallah we'll end. We are passionate of the truth. We know which is only a fear of Allah but we have to control our emotions in doing that one, not to fall into argumentation. Exactly to the person who mentioned that. Part of that one is not arguing. That's actually, otherwise it's not that one. Because Allah says, that call to the way of your Lord with hikmah, with wisdom, right? And he tells Musa alayhi salam when he's going to do that one to his own. He says to his own.  He says to his own to be gentle with him. So it's not da'wah if it's with argument. That's something else. It's not from the da'wah of the Prophet's Islam. It's something else entirely. So let's just keep that in mind but totally agree that we have to control our emotions. We can't be passionate. We can be passionate but we cannot be intense and argumentative. We have to be merciful and we have to not be harsh. We cannot push people away from Islam. We need to bring people in and we will bring people in from our akhlaq. Not from our intellectual rhetoric. It will come from our akhlaq, inshallah, our character. I'm going to say this salam alaykum, alaykum salam, alaykum salam. Alhamdulillah, okay? I don't think there's any more questions, inshallah.  Alhamdulillah, alaykum salam. What do we do when people say on TikTok, LGBTQ Muslims are going to a bad place? Do we argue? No, so good question. The topic of homosexuality and that entire topic is a very, very broad topic but just briefly, only Allah knows where someone is going, number one. Number two, there are many lists of harams. It is not about having a desire. It's about acting on the desire. So somebody who has a desire before they get married for any sex, the opposite sex or the same sex and they act on that desire, right? Let's say that somebody is not married and they are like a man and they sleep with a woman. Well, and that's not their wife. They, that's haram. Same thing if they sleep with a man. That's haram, right? And so that's one thing to keep in mind. Second thing is there are many lists of haram sins or sorry, major sins among which are homosexuality, arzina. It is adultery is another sin. Disobeying your parents is considered one of the biggest sins in our religion. There are so many sins. Taking interest loans is a huge sin. So when people get into very specific topics, many times that is stemming from a disease of the heart that they just want to single out groups and they don't want to look at everything in its macro context. There are many big major sins. It's not worth narrowing in on very, very specific groups getting very, very homophobic, getting angry with specific groups because of that, right? The other thing is if somebody has that inclination, it's about again controlling the desire. The inclination of it in and of itself is not the problem we're talking about. The desire and acting on it is the problem.  This person's going to heaven.  This whole group is in heaven. It's like, oh, really? It didn't know that you, that you, that you are God next to God? Are you, is that what you are? Don't engage with people who try to legislate where people are going. Leave that to Allah. Allah knows what's in someone's heart and Allah knows where someone is going to end up. They might, people might make toba. People will change, inshallah. And there might be righteous Muslims who in their hadith that indicate this, who at the end of their life they will change and may Allah protect us from this that they will have a bad ending. And there could be Muslims who are really doing lots of haram and at the end Allah will change their life and they will have a good ending. And it is about the way that Allah seals our life, inshallah. But definitely don't argue. Don't argue about any controversial topic. Just don't waste your time. It's a desire. Don't waste your time by arguing about LGBT. Don't, it's not your, it's not my business, not your business. Let the scholars discuss it and be merciful to people who are in that struggle. Be merciful to them. Be nice, right? Don't argue about controversial things Muslims argue about.  You will see the light that enters the heart when you spend time learning and worshiping Allah. That is way better than the tension and trepidation that enters the heart that is associated with arguing and all the other worries. I face this issue all the time that people just want to argue about stuff. And I'm just like, I have that inclination as well and I have to hold myself back. Like, how do I stop this? Because this is not healthy for me, even mentally, let alone spiritually. Good question. Thank you for asking, sister. All right. And if there are any other questions, inshallah, please post them. Otherwise, please keep everybody you can go ask tonight. Inshallah, please check out this program that Dr. Ali Atay will be doing at 8 p.m. Easterns in about 22 minutes. Check it out until I think it's on YouTube or Isra'a Miraj. Hopefully it'll be recorded as well so we can watch it later. Inshallah. What if you bring logical arguments just for someone to reason and come to the truth? So argument, the construct of an argument, the Quran is full of arguments, meaning Allah is presenting to us in a very, very logical way. This is why you should believe, right? So that's not a problem. When I say arguing, I don't mean the classical definition of argument. What I mean is that like this kind of intense angry debate that people engage in to prove themselves right. So if you bring logical arguments, let's say that, what's an example here? Let's say that somebody wants to know, let's say that somebody wants to know interest. Let's talk about interest, okay? Someone's like, oh, I don't really understand interest. Like is it haram? Is it not? What is it about? Is it just like when the interest rate is really high? So you say, well, according to the scholars, the first thing you started, what are the consensus of the scholars? Consensus of the scholars is that interest-based instruments are problematic. Then if they really need to look at the proofs, again, it's really not actually for you and me to look into all the proofs because there's hundreds of thousands of proofs. So we're not gonna know them, most of them, right? Just like a doctor, when they're treating you, they're not gonna tell you the different chemical formulas that came up in that treatment that result. When you take the coronavirus vaccine, you're not diagnosing all of the different ingredients in the vaccine. No, you were just taking the vaccine and you're hoping it's gonna help and hoping it's gonna work. Same thing with you go to the scholar and you say, what is the situation here? And they will tell you. So let's say with interest, if you really wanna look, go in the Quran. Allah has many verses worth of Bukhara and other ayahs that talk about interest. He says he wages war on the one who take him and a lot of messenger wage war on the one who takes interest. Then you can look up different hadith. There are various hadith that indicate the problematic place that somebody who is giving interest or bearing witness to interest or taking interest will be. So you can present those to somebody and say, you know what? You should check these out. I think it's very dangerous. I think we should get out of interest. I think we should stop taking car loans and stop taking student loans. And ideally convert any other loans into any Islamic loans that are possible. You can do that. But if it's like an intense argument and usually the argument comes with like on very controversial topics. Logical proofs are fine, but just be careful not to let it get into a bad place. Just be very careful because what happens is just like the, let's say somebody's gonna engage in Zina and Haram and like sexual acts with somebody that they're not married to. It's not necessarily Haram to like just, you know, say hello or something like that, but it starts with the hello. Then it goes into text conversation. Then it goes into a little bit more and a little bit more. And next thing you know, the Haram act has happened. So you have to know yourself is the logical argument you were bringing going to lead to the Haram argumentation that's gonna happen? If so, don't do it. But if it's just to, and the person is receptive, MashaAllah, Bismillah and you are able to control yourself, then we can engage in that. So with our intention that people come to the truth. Yeah. Good question. If there's anything else, inshAllah, we will go ahead and answer it. Ya Allah, Allah. Or we'll go try, inshAllah. Alhamdulillah, may Allah forgive us. Hope everybody's doing well. Hope everybody's preparation. InshAllah for Ramadan, it's going to be again soon. InshAllah, it's something we need to start preparing for. Alhamdulillah. Okay, I don't see anything else. Jazakum Allah Khair. Wassalamu Alaykum. Wa-Alaykum Wa-Alaykum. Wa-Alaykum Wa-Alaykum. Wa-Alaykum Wa-Alaykum Wa-Alaykum. Alhamdulillah, we'll be waiting for you. Alhamdulillah, may Allah forgive us. Assalamu alaykum wa-alaykum wa-alameen.