Aug-01-08
 | | notyetagm: Black to play: 43 ... ?
click for larger viewHere Carlsen (Black) played the winning <SKEWER> 43 ...  h2-h1+, attacking both the White e1-king and the White d1-rook behind it. Position after 43 ... h2-h1+
click for larger viewCarlsen's tactical point is that after 44  e1-e2 he played 44 ... h1x d1+!, <REMOVING THE GUARD> of the b1-promotion square of his b2-passer by destroying the White d1-rook defender. Position after 44 e1-e2 h1xd1+! <remove the guard> 0-1
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click for larger viewIMHO Carlsen is the strongest player in the world at handling the queen. This fine win over Polgar is just another example. |
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Aug-01-08
| | notyetagm: Two examples of Magnus Carlsen playing ... x! to <REMOVE THE GUARD> of a <PROMOTION SQUARE>. Judit Polgar vs Carlsen, 2008
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click for larger viewOnischuk vs Carlsen, 2007
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Aug-01-08
 | | Ron: 23. Nf5 might be a question mark move; the lines arising after the alternative 23. fxg7 exd4 seem comparatively much better for White. |
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| Aug-01-08 | | Atking: <IMHO Carlsen is the strongest player in the world at handling the queen.> With an obvious sense of humour... |
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| Aug-02-08 | | LKor: <IMHO Carlsen is the strongest player in the world at handling the queen.> Right, Magnus seems to be very confortable with Judit :-) |
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Aug-02-08
| | notyetagm: <LKor: <IMHO Carlsen is the strongest player in the world at handling the queen.> Right, Magnus seems to be very confortable with Judit :-)> That's not what I meant, peverts. :-)
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Aug-02-08
 | | PinnedPiece: Eventual GOTD as "Carlsen Handles the Queen"? |
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| Aug-03-08 | | belgradegambit: OK so Carlsen now plays the Dragon exclusively against e4. He plays it against the worlds strongest players who have enormous resources. His opponents know its coming. In 2008 he has 3 wins, 6 draws and no losses in the Dragon. And yet somehow people still think the Dragon has been refuted as a defense at the top levels! |
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| Aug-03-08 | | Octal: <belgradegambit> You have to have a deep understanding of all the theory to play the dragon at top levels. The opening is practically a theoretical draw, but is very difficult to play OTB, and requires a lot of effort from black. Anyway Judit blundered with 12. g4?. This is the "natural" way of playing 9. Bc4, as black can't play ...h5, but it is just too slow. |
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Aug-05-08
| | PinnedPiece: If you want to see Carlsen out-queened, here he is at age 11, learning the steps to the dance, as it were..... Carlsen vs Rause Olita, 2002
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| Oct-14-08 | | DiscoJew: Does any one realize how deep Magnus had to see to play the final queen sac shot?
Scary Indeed! |
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Nov-12-11
 | | Phony Benoni: Recycling the Good Ol' Puns: Miles vs Yusupov, 1985 |
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Nov-12-11
 | | HeMateMe: Nice attack. I thought I saw the theme of two Rooks for a Queen and Qxp (a2)+ six moves before it happened, pretty common attacking maneuver. Nice pun, I just hope it doesn't mean that Magnus has been making purchases at Victorias Secret. |
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| Nov-12-11 | | belgradegambit: <Phoney Benoni> I was unaware of that previous pun submission but it is an obvious idea. Recently I had submitted "The Old Man and the C" for this game F Caruana vs Korchnoi, 2011 and a variant was used here Zsofia Polgar vs Smyslov, 2000
Anyway being a Dragon player I love games like this one. |
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| Nov-12-11 | | Eric Farley: Maybe Polgar would get better results if she were a d4 player instead of an e4 player. As a rule, d4 players win less but lose less.But of course this is a question of nature; this has been chosen for her. |
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Nov-12-11
 | | kevin86: good pub as pawn promotes at b1.
I guess Magnus was hungry for Hungary. |
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Nov-12-11
 | | playground player: <Eric Farley> Maybe the rise of 1.d4 accounts for the annoyingly high number of draws in modern chess. Or maybe it's just that all the top players are using the same computer software. Eventually someone will discover a new way to smack down the Sicilian Defense, and 1.e4 will come back into its own. |
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| Nov-12-11 | | Karnatakiaditya: Can somebody explain the pun? #clueless |
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| Nov-12-11 | | trnbg: <Karnatakiaditya> b1 = "be one". White gives up because Black will queen on b1. (to explain a pun means to kill it, anyway...) |
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| Nov-12-11 | | lemaire90: The pun is just too good. |
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| Nov-13-11 | | Eric Farley: To playground player :You made a good point (same software being used), but d4 being the cause of so many draws, I'm not so sure. Schlechter, a player of the early 20th century, used to be called the king of draws and he was basically(like almost all his contemporaries) an e4 player. I think the high number of draws has to do with the contemporary players' lack of stamina (with a few noble exceptions). But some tournaments today use the soccer formula (3 points for victory and 1 point for draws) and I think this should be the norm always. |
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| Nov-29-11 | | Penguincw: Great pun? Who thought of it? |
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| Jan-12-12 | | tivrfoa: Maybe the best <pun> I saw at chessgames.com |
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