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Magnus Carlsen vs Vladimir Kramnik
20th Amber Tournament (Blindfold) (2011) (blindfold), Monaco MNC, rd 7, Mar-19
Russian Game: Classical Attack. Staunton Variation (C42)  ·  1-0

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Mar-20-11  lost in space: Tja, Kramnik and Carlsen. Seems that Carlsen is ahead. But he seems to be behind Aronjan and Vishy.
Mar-20-11
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  Penguincw: Carlsen worked very hard to knock the point out of Kramnik.
Mar-20-11  polarmis: It's a shame the broadcast went down as this ended up being a really great game with lots of nice tactical tricks from both players.

The key moment seems to have been when Carlsen played 44. Re4. If Kramnik exchanged rooks he'd have good winning chances and at the very least shouldn't have lost.

He said after the game, though, that he thought his rook was on d7 and only discovered it was on e7 when he tried to play 44...Ne7. The thing is, though, if he'd stayed calm he should have then spotted the obvious 44...Rxe4. Instead, as the report at the official site puts it: "Next in a panicky reaction he tried to play the rook as quickly as possible and put it on b7."

Mar-25-11  Ulhumbrus: After 17 Bd2 it may seem obvious that Black's N is placed well on d5. What is less obvious is that if it ties the pawn on c6 to its defence, and so keeps this pawn from advancing, this immobilizes Black's Queen side pawn majority. In that case the N on d5 is placed in fact very badly and this suggests moving the N from d5 as quickly as possible in some way which will not clash with the advance ...c5 eg 17...Nc7.
Nov-02-13  Xeroxx: <Carlsen worked very hard to knock the point out of Kramnik.>It's a hard knock life.

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