Nic (J Bruce Feynman Niccolo P. Bentulan)

- Nickname: Nic

- Full name:
J Bruce Feynman Niccolo Pedrosa (Philippine maternal name) Bentulan

- my introduction: wp.me/p1w4Rr-7d
&
mathematiciowned.wordpress.com/about

- As of late 2021:
Mainly uploading clips or compilations re chess960 /chess9LX / fischer random chess / 960 / 9LX / FRC / freestyle (and a little chess).

- As of late 2022:
Am I the 1st and only 9LX channel in youtube history?

- As of late 2023:
Some anime & csgo/cs2.

- As of late 2024:
Some politics.

- Subscribers:
2022Sep14 - 51
Dec24 - 100
2023Feb09 - 110
May19 - 150
Sep23 - 200
2024Jan20 - 240
Feb12 - 250
Feb24 - 260 (from 2024 Freestyle?)
May07 - 300
Sep25 - 340 (from 2024 Olympiad?)
Dec01 - 350 (from 2024 classical WCC?)
Dec14 - 358 (ditto?)
Dec25 - 360
2025Jan12 - 369 (2024 rapid blitz WCC?)
Jan19 - 370
Apr06 - 380 (2025 2nd freestyle?)
May27 - 390
Jul08 - 400
Nov26 - 420 (2025 USCC?)


Nic (J Bruce Feynman Niccolo P. Bentulan)

Why not 4 player chess960? ‪@freestyle_chess‬​​​​ ‪@carissayip9046‬​​​​

10 hours ago | [YT] | 1

Nic (J Bruce Feynman Niccolo P. Bentulan)

Jewish Catholic ex-Protestant Bobby Fischer, uncle of Evangelical ex-Catholic Wesley So : 'Only hope for the world is through Catholicism.'

https://youtu.be/ySkH5B3ncCM

(or well maybe at least Orthodoxy too. Lutheran & Anglican too. Especially since Protestants & Orthodoxen are more pro-Israel & anti-Islam than Catholics are...)

What do you think? I don't think Bobby said anything anti-semitic after that. Lol. Maybe conversion to Catholicism led to less anti-semitism.

As for Wesley So, maybe the conservatism/Evangelicalism of Lotis Key combined w/ the liberalism(/atheism?) of Carissa Yip will lead Wesley So the average w/c is centrism/Catholicism. Lol.

Also, the Philippines is the 2nd least anti-semitic country.

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More info:
- Ha6uVGB-Mtw ( Alireza )
- OYTjE96krMg ( nephew uncle )
- kz2mqLscPNg ( Jewish Catholic Trent Horn on anti-Catholicism )
- IQTE7sl8oow ( Catholics for Israel in 2025May on 'Catholic' anti-semitism. in the comments you can't tell Catholic from Muslim. Sad. )

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More info:
https://youtu.be/Ha6uVGB-Mtw
https://youtu.be/OYTjE96krMg
https://youtu.be/kz2mqLscPNg
https://youtu.be/IQTE7sl8oow

‪@irina_krush‬‪@themagnuscarlsen‬‪@danielrensch‬‪@carissayip9046‬‪@ydkme-reborn‬‪@youdontknowme2508‬

https://youtu.be/ySkH5B3ncCM

1 day ago | [YT] | 1

Nic (J Bruce Feynman Niccolo P. Bentulan)

Magnus is still too chicken to face American Wesley & Jewish Nepo 1v1 in classical 9LX lol.

2 days ago | [YT] | 1

Nic (J Bruce Feynman Niccolo P. Bentulan)

Nice. Just like when Wesley So and Bobby Fischer beat the world chess champions resp Magnus Carlsen & Boris Spassky. So too Hans beat the world diving chess champion.

3 days ago | [YT] | 2

Nic (J Bruce Feynman Niccolo P. Bentulan)

Who do you agree w/?

GM Larry Kaufman?
https://youtu.be/A52UXLpplTw

Alex_wuz_taken?
https://youtu.be/OyXKHeQ7H0c

2022Oct

GBTGBA: chess.com/member/gbtgba ( 2022Oct30 )

Nice Nepo got his revenge against Carlsen who doesn’t think he’s worthy opponent in WC.Haha so funny.

Me: ( Sometime 2022Oct30 – 2022Nov02 )

yeah 4-0 loss to wesley in 2019, 3-1 loss to nepo in 2022 and an indirect 3-1 loss to hikarua via nepo.

looks like magnus is good for openings and not much else LOL www.reddit.com/r/Endgames/comments/xmehid/if_magnu…

Larry Kaufman: chess.com/members/view/hissha ( 2022Nov02 )

Magnus doesn’t generally play such great openings, he strives to get the game out of book as early as possible usually. I think the issue here is that his greatest strength is the endgame, but FRC games are much more likely to be decided in the middlegame as the players are on their own so early. That’s probably why he doesn’t shine as brightly in FRC as in Classical chess.

2022Dec

Alex_wuz_taken: ( 2022Dec11 )

Imagine having to cope so hard with the fact that Magnus is the chess goat that you critique his performance in 960 XD

Me: ( 2022Dec11 )

Haha fair. That’s people said in Gothamchess comments re Levy’s review this year of the 2019 WFRCC like you have to look up Magnus’ loss in a variant 3 years ago.

But yeah ok Magnus is still good at endgames but sucks at middlegames. That’s good enough for me. (sort of.) XD

But to be fair it is odd that someone who strives to get the game out of book early and does better in rapid that classical does less good in 9LX right?

Alex_wuz_taken: ( 2022Dec11 )

To be 100% with you, I also found it odd that Magnus isn’t stronger at 960 given how little he seems to rely on opening prep for the most part.

Far be it from me to disagree with the GM, but I actually have a different theory; I think that Magnus’s middle game knowledge doesn’t translate well to 960. If you ever listen to magnus commentate while he plays, he has ridiculous knowledge of A. Where certain positions have come up in other games, and B. How earlier middle games might morph into other similar middle game type positions (that he is familiar with).

Neither of those skills translate to 960 at all

4 days ago | [YT] | 1

Nic (J Bruce Feynman Niccolo P. Bentulan)

Played Magnus (Bill Gates) vs played Vishy (Nikhil) Vs played Garry (Deep Blue)

Which is worse: when Nikhil prank cheated Vishy in a casual simul that increased money for the charity?

Or when Garry cheated Vishy in 1995 PCA classical WCC?

See:

https://youtu.be/aaTUJFjMfyI

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Nikhil's prank brought more people into chess and increased money for the charity. People say Nikhil is a cheater. They suck. They are hypocrites because they don't condemn Garry Kasparov for cheating Vishy Anand in the 1995 PCA classical WCC.

The 2023 classical world chess championship had a prize fund of 2m USD that is split 60% winner & 40% to runner-up. Idk how much it was back in 1995 but I'll just estimate Garry cheated Vishy 20% of 2m USD which is 400k USD.

Garry stole money from Vishy by cheating, maybe about 400k USD. Nikhil DID THE OPPOSITE. Anyone who criticises Nikhil but not Garry is a hypocrite and in my opinion is a traitor if they're Indian.

Nikhil INCREASED money for the charity. Show me a single poor or formerly poor person who disapproves of what Nikhil did.

It's like in the Israel Vs Hamas war. 19yo Jewish conscripts in the IDF die while hundreds of thousands of Palestinians live from Israel's leaflets. People hate Israel when Israel goes beyond obligations to save lives. Similarly, people hate Nikhil when Nikhil goes beyond obligations to promote chess. Or like Jesus who goes beyond obligations to save humanity but is hated by others.

Matthew 5:11
or
Isaiah 53

Nikhil is like Jesus & Israel.

More info:

qr.ae/psHOp0

qr.ae/pspcYv

https://youtu.be/yirg14TiLt8

https://youtu.be/ARNSi0cPu60

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Good guys vs Bad guys

- Axis of Evil (Good guys?)

wesley so (the lelouch vi britannia or jesus of chess-or-9LX), hans niemann, bobby fischer, sergey karjakin, vlad kramnik, ian nepomniachtchi, alireza firouzja, fabiano caruana, levon aronian, viktor korchnoi, pal benko, mikhail tal, amin tabatabaei, gukesh dommaraju, maxime vachier-lagrave, nodirbek abdusattorov, juan manuel bellón (anna cramling's dad), vidit gujrathi, andrii baryshpolets, vishy anand, jan-krzysztof duda, vladimir fedoseev, lichess, yahweh & jesus & paul, christianity-or-judaism aka abrahamism, walter tevis, max pomeranc, chesscube, Sergey's hypothetical pure 9LX parallel, PCAP, 9LX, christopher yoo, gata kamsky, sam sevian, michael adams, leela, ATLA netflix fire nation & sokka in original, ferdinand marcos sr, ben johnson of perpetual chess podcast(?), elon musk(?), nikhil kamath, bibi netanyahu, both vladimir putin & volodymyr zelenskyy (because of sergey karjakin), ben shapiro(?)/alan dershowitz(?), mustafa barghouti, barack obama, donald trump, tristan & andrew tate

🇺🇦🇮🇱🇹🇼🇮🇳🇺🇲🇬🇧🇦🇺🇯🇵

- Allies of Evil (Bad guys?)

magnus carlsen (the light yagami or mohammed of chess-or-9LX), hikaru nakamura, garry kasparov, daniil dubov, veselin topalov, liren ding, aryan tari, abhimanyu mishra, tigran l petrosian, tigran v petrosian, paul keres, efim geller, parham maghsoodloo, pranav venkatesh, sébastien feller, vincent keymer, paco vallejo, pentala harikrishna, arkady dvorkovich, peter heine nielsen, richárd rapport, alexey sarana, ches***m, allah & isa & mohammed, islam aka satanism, fred & josh waitzkin, PCA, FIDE, NCFP, chess1, andrew tang, alejandro ramirez, sam shankland, nigel short, stockfish, ATLA original fire nation & sokka in netflix, prospero pichay jr, lex fridman(?), mark zuckerberg(?), sumner redstone, ariel sharon, ali khamenei & mahmoud abbas (because of alireza firouzja & randa seder), alan dershowitz(?)/ben shapiro(?), bassem youssef, joe biden, george bush jr & sr, piers morgan

🇷🇺🇵🇸🇨🇳🇵🇰🇳🇴🇮🇷🇮🇶🇰🇵

- axis of evil (female) (good girls?)

tingjie lei (or paikidze), janelle frayna, anna cramling, dina belenkaya, rahma zein, randa seder, lotis key, carissa yip (or sara khadem), irina krush, heather walker, robbi jade lew

- allies of evil (female) (bad girls?)

wenjun ju, bella khotenashvili, alexandra & andrea botez, abby martin (so much for https://youtu.be/XMCr-bQk_DM ft mike prysner), turnabouttess, leny so, atousa pourkashiyan - nakamura, jennifer yu, dani chambers, nemo zhou

- maybe slightly axis:

agadmator but idk antonio radić kinda likes magnus. also roderick nava who replied to me.

- maybe slightly allies:

gothamchess but idk levy rozman kinda likes wesley. also deniel causo who didn't reply to me.

Note: They correspond.
Eg
Wesley Vs Magnus
Bobby Vs Garry
Hans Vs Hikaru
Christopher Yoo Vs Andrew Tang
Dina Vs Andrea
etc

More info:
https://youtu.be/FlNsFKeq-iE

Nepo, NOT MAGNUS, is the true top 2 classical WFRCC player behind Wesley So.
https://youtu.be/TxJuu8-ncTw

Magnus beat Wesley & Nepo in 2024 & 2025 freestyle the same way Garry beat Alexei Shirov in 2000 PCA classical WCC . Congrats Magnus & Garry! 👏🎉👏🎉 👏🎉👏🎉👏🎉👏🎉👏🎉 🥳 🥂🥳🥂🥳🥂🥳🥂🥳
https://youtu.be/DaLFis3poBg

https://youtu.be/1dCHH_Ar-R4

5 days ago | [YT] | 1

Nic (J Bruce Feynman Niccolo P. Bentulan)

Which is worse: when Nikhil prank cheated Vishy in a casual simul that increased money for the charity?

Or when Garry cheated Vishy in 1995 PCA classical WCC?

See:

https://youtu.be/aaTUJFjMfyI

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Nikhil's prank brought more people into chess and increased money for the charity. People say Nikhil is a cheater. They suck. They are hypocrites because they don't condemn Garry Kasparov for cheating Vishy Anand in the 1995 PCA classical WCC.

The 2023 classical world chess championship had a prize fund of 2m USD that is split 60% winner & 40% to runner-up. Idk how much it was back in 1995 but I'll just estimate Garry cheated Vishy 20% of 2m USD which is 400k USD.

Garry stole money from Vishy by cheating, maybe about 400k USD. Nikhil DID THE OPPOSITE. Anyone who criticises Nikhil but not Garry is a hypocrite and in my opinion is a traitor if they're Indian.

Nikhil INCREASED money for the charity. Show me a single poor or formerly poor person who disapproves of what Nikhil did.

It's like in the Israel Vs Hamas war. 19yo Jewish conscripts in the IDF die while hundreds of thousands of Palestinians live from Israel's leaflets. People hate Israel when Israel goes beyond obligations to save lives. Similarly, people hate Nikhil when Nikhil goes beyond obligations to promote chess. Or like Jesus who goes beyond obligations to save humanity but is hated by others.

Matthew 5:11
or
Isaiah 53

Nikhil is like Jesus & Israel.

More info:

qr.ae/psHOp0

qr.ae/pspcYv

https://youtu.be/yirg14TiLt8

https://youtu.be/ARNSi0cPu60

6 days ago | [YT] | 1

Nic (J Bruce Feynman Niccolo P. Bentulan)

Magnus cheated Danya twice

1 week ago | [YT] | 2

Nic (J Bruce Feynman Niccolo P. Bentulan)

Which is worse: when Nikhil prank cheated Vishy in a casual simul that increased money for the charity?

Or when Garry cheated Vishy in 1995 PCA classical WCC?

See:

https://youtu.be/aaTUJFjMfyI

---

Nikhil's prank brought more people into chess and increased money for the charity. People say Nikhil is a cheater. They suck. They are hypocrites because they don't condemn Garry Kasparov for cheating Vishy Anand in the 1995 PCA classical WCC.

The 2023 classical world chess championship had a prize fund of 2m USD that is split 60% winner & 40% to runner-up. Idk how much it was back in 1995 but I'll just estimate Garry cheated Vishy 20% of 2m USD which is 400k USD.

Garry stole money from Vishy by cheating, maybe about 400k USD. Nikhil DID THE OPPOSITE. Anyone who criticises Nikhil but not Garry is a hypocrite and in my opinion is a traitor if they're Indian.

Nikhil INCREASED money for the charity. Show me a single poor or formerly poor person who disapproves of what Nikhil did.

It's like in the Israel Vs Hamas war. 19yo Jewish conscripts in the IDF die while hundreds of thousands of Palestinians live from Israel's leaflets. People hate Israel when Israel goes beyond obligations to save lives. Similarly, people hate Nikhil when Nikhil goes beyond obligations to promote chess. Or like Jesus who goes beyond obligations to save humanity but is hated by others.

Matthew 5:11
or
Isaiah 53

Nikhil is like Jesus & Israel.

More info:

qr.ae/psHOp0

qr.ae/pspcYv

https://youtu.be/yirg14TiLt8

https://youtu.be/ARNSi0cPu60

1 week ago | [YT] | 1