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24-Hour Chess Challenge Insights

this is my brand new chess.com account with zero games played on it and for the next 24 hours I'm going to be playing on it to see how much progress someone can make if they started from zero and played 24 hours nonstop I'm going to try to get the hardest achievements on chess.com like killer king and Castle Victory I'm going to try to get my rating as high as humanly possible and attempt to stay awake for the entire 24 hours but before this I have to play five games to get my official chess.com rating okay nice we win woohoo we won the first game and while I finished these games this was by far the hardest challenge that I've ever done and by the end of the 24 hours I was barely even conscious so you're going to want to watch the entire video okay my rating is 96 let's go guys all right we got our rating now the next thing we should probably do is get a bunch of these Checkmate Awards I made it my goal to get a checkmate with every single piece in the game luckily I had already gotten the Killer Queen achievement so I just need to get a checkmate with five other pieces it only took me a few games to get the Rook Checkmate oh wait we maybe I'll get a rook uh I'm going to do it all right a rook Checkmate and this made me think that the other checkmate would be just as easy okay Pawn Checkmate is the goal in mind I'm thinking we just push these pawns um okay that's not exactly what we wanted to see uh and this is the beginning of my slow descent into Insanity 2 hours into the challenge I still hadn't gotten a checkmate with any other pieces besides the queen and the Rook but my rating had been steadily increasing we started at 400 and we're now well over 1,400 okay Bing Bong if we can just go to this squ we get a bishop checkmate guaranteed his only move is here no and then here's Checkmate oh yes oh my God I'm so good at the game guys oh my goodness gracious oh yeah killer bishop and just like that I got the bishop checkmate 20 minutes later I was playing a game not even paying attention when this happened oh yeah I'm streaming for ver um did I just did I just actually get accidentally get a night Checkmate wait what my goodness gracious the Stars aligned and somehow I got one of the most difficult checkmates completely by accident 3 hours in I was just peaceful trying to get a pawn Checkmate when a view randomly door dashed me a croissant croissant reveal oh yeah wao so beautiful besides that though hour three passed pretty quickly 4 hours in we hit 16,000 subscribers 16,0 and4 guys so thank you guys 20,000 soon maybe hour 5 passed pretty uneventfully what's your o okay but in hour 6 I was finally able to get a checkmate with a pawn this might be the game hold on is that a Checkmate oh my goodness wait a sec okay I moved a pawn for the last move but is that a pawn Checkmate yes oh my gosh yes we got the pawn Checkmate all that was left now was a king Checkmate and I had done this before so I knew the strategy that I had to use and after just a few games I found the perfect opponent who did not resign and please don't resign he's not resigning he has to go nice here and then we move our King back here then please don't resign oh yeah oh yeah all right oh yeah oh yeah I'm on my lifelong goal has been accomplished 7 hours in the chat wanted me to play the new chess bots on chess.com when do they add all these Bots oh my goodness I completely destroyed the first bot the Checkmate oh yeah the second bot was an easy win there we go very nice the Checkmate is unstoppable my friend and uh we beat the next poot next after that win though I lost to all the other remaining chest Bots even the Martin one whose rating literally just says uh-oh okie dokie here is Martin um what is that rating exactly oh nice got checkmated since I was trying to get every Checkmate achievement earlier my rating was now very low so I decided to try and push it as high as possible I played a bunch of Blitz and bullet games and we got some pretty juicy rating points here's where we started and here's where we were after 8 hours I hadn't played any rapid games but I decided to do that later for right now I wanted to get my bullet rating as high as possible and in just the first match we had a very exciting game I have literally 1 second I cannot be thinking about [Music] just look at that 2 seconds 0.2 seconds I played a bunch more games and then you guys wanted me to play some longer games so we played our first 15-minute game of the challenge 1510 we can take a lot of time here as I was saying these rapid games are kind of boring to be honest Among Us I started off hour 9 with a puzzle battle where you have to solve chest tactics quicker than another random person usually I win these but my opponent channeled his inner Carl Magnuson and absolutely wrecked me is this not free is that just not free okay very nice I kept grinding bullet games and we reached 12200 yay we're 1,200 wo since we got this Milestone and bullet I thought we should get to at least 15 or, 1600 in Rapid unfortunately things wouldn't turn out so well all righty we are definitely losing this 100% there's no hope of winning I just couldn't focus on these longer games and I lost the first two rapid games I played guys I think I'm losing miserably please provide emotional support all right we're going to resign guys I'm telling you rapid is not the way to go things started to improve at the 10 hour mark all this guy ran out of time wow guys I think I just made a cool a cool moment oh yes but these rapid Games took so long I was only able to play a few of them over the course of the next 2 hours I managed to get my rapid rating to a comfortable 1300 and here's my stats after 11 straight hours of playing chess we have played 120 games a lot of Blitz a lot of bullets a few rapid games I still needed to play all these other variants and I had done zero puzzles so I just did the three puzzles that I was able to all right I can only do three very nice 12 entire USD hours we were halfway through the challenge and I decided to play some chess variants I started off with King of the Hill where the only goal is to get your king to any of the four Central squares I lost the first match but I came back stronger for the second one yes very delightful oh he sacrifices his Queen nice and easy win very nice very nice very nice oh yeah I moved on to crazy house where I got completely violated in every way possible oh yes this guy even started emoting on me I continued playing random variants until 12 a.m. at midnight where I decided it was time to attempt the hardest achievement to get on chess.com oh there's an award that we have missed that I know will take many hours and many painful moments and that is the castling Checkmate okay since I gotten this before I knew the strategy though all you have to do is go to open challenges and accept a low rated challenge I got close my first two games nice he doesn't resign this is a great sign oh my gosh but on just the third game of me trying to get this award this happened nice now we tra him in the in the file he can go here no it's the wrong file we trapped him in the wrong file right no no no is this the right file is that Checkmate yes oh my God my yes I was so stressed out only 30 minutes after starting I had gotten the most difficult award on chess.com at hour 14 is where my energy levels started to drop just a little bit I was playing a bunch of Blitz and bullet games but I was talking a lot less to keep me awake though I just played a bunch of bullet games until it reached 2 a.m. 2 a.m. guys this is where things got painful my eyes which were fined before were now very tired of staring at a computer screen for 15 hours straight and I honestly didn't know if I could do this all night now do you notice anything weird here besides the fact that I look like I just woke up from a 30-year coma well did you see that red thing on the bottom of my hand that's a part of my hand that rests on the table when I use my mouse and had been sliding around rubbing the table for close to 16 hours now I was so tired I didn't even notice this at the time but a few days later right now as I'm editing this video it still feels pretty bad 3:00 a.m. barely more than halfway through I was already struggling to stay awake my energy was at an all-time low and I was beginning to regret all my life choices to add to this I could literally not get to 1300 Blitz rating this game is lost all I want to get to do is get to let's get to 1300 and and Blitz guys bro on 1 HP I played a countless number of games but my rating stayed stuck at around 1240 and refused to go higher oh I lost a bishop Nice Nice One D I was beyond depressed at this point so I went back to Bullet where I knew I would find happiness as I guess these quick games gave me hope that I could finish this Challenge and I gained just under 100 rating points in only an hour 1,400 200 games that's a lot of games 1400 5:00 let's go it was officially the next morning I could hear birds outside my window and here I was still playing chess I thought that a new morning meant a new me so I went back to trying to get a 1300 rating in Blitz wow I made zero progression in my attempts to increase my rating I don't know why I'm so bad at Blitz but I did get to, 1500 in bullet nice nice nice nice nice 19 hours in I was definitely not awake I wasn't sleeping but I was somewhere in the middle I definitely lost Consciousness a few times in the longer games when I was waiting for my opponent to move but I continued playing I got my bullet rating to, 1600 nice 1,600 but my Blitz rating stayed the exact same as it was 5 hours ago all I'm not winning that game this was the final stretch of 3 hours and these next few hours will be the longest 3 hours in my entire career as a human I was REM motivated to get to 1300 Blitz though I really want to get my Blitz rating to 1300 that is going to be a goal in the last 3 hours I just couldn't live with myself if I stayed at 1200 for the entire challenge unfortunately my body was just shutting down and my rating was not changing I chose a different theme for the board to trying to wake me up but this definitely was not working two more hours guys that's it just two just 2 hours 2 hours left it didn't seem that long but every time I looked at the clock it seemed like the time was barely moving and I was quite literally falling asleep in the middle of my games I took a break to get some food and this woke me up a little bit I kept playing bullet getting very close to 1600 until this was it the final hour my goal was to reach 1,600 in bullet and it was pretty close but I only had an hour to finish this unfortunately my brain just couldn't think properly and I tilting I kept trying though until this game happened I'm so bad at the game and I completely just gave up on the 1600 goal I was barely managing to stay awake and drifting off to sleep in a lot of my games finally though I just had one last game to complete this 24-hour Challenge and I was determined to win I said zero words the entire game and even up an entire Queen I could barely remember how to Checkmate this guy uh we 11:00 finally oh my goodness gracious that was a pain painful experience here's what my account looked like before and this is after I'm literally never doing this again I am depressed [Music]