Boris Gelfand vs Magnus Carlsen (2011)

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Boris Gelfand vs Magnus Carlsen
20th Amber Tournament (Rapid) (2011) (rapid), Monaco MNC, rd 11, Mar-24
Benko Gambit: Accepted. Fully Accepted Variation (A58) · 0-1

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Given 22 times; par: 85 [what's this?]

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Mar-24-11		beenthere240: Nice job of trapping the knight.

Mar-24-11		Marmot PFL: It's hard accepting the Benko, especially in fast chess.

Mar-24-11		Penguincw: Poor knight. :(

Mar-25-11		DiscoJew: Awesome domination "cherry-on-top" finish by Magnus!

Mar-25-11		ajile: If 47.Ng2 then 47..Rh1 is mate. lol

Mar-25-11		kingfu: There have have many criticisms of Carlsen. This tournament proves them wrong. He is so far ahead that he had some fun with The Benko Gambit. The only thing better than playing and winning is playing and losing.

Mar-25-11		Ulhumbrus: Carlsen uncorks successfully a less frequently used strategy in the Benko gambit, that of attacking White's centre by the pawn advance ...f5, a resource which Pal Benko mentions in his book on the Benko gambit. The result suggests the following interesting question: Which attempts on White's part to answer Black's Queen side attack make the advance ...f5 more favourable for Black?

Mar-25-11		haydn20: 16 b3 seems to invite ...f5. Maybe stirring things up on the K-side with e.g. 16 Ng5 is better? It seems to me that in this tournament Carlsen punished every minor positional mistake severely: "Tactics flow from a superior position."

Mar-26-11		Ulhumbrus: <haydn20: 16 b3 seems to invite ...f5. Maybe stirring things up on the K-side with e.g. 16 Ng5 is better? It seems to me that in this tournament Carlsen punished every minor positional mistake severely: "Tactics flow from a superior position."> This suggests the question: Why does 16 b3 invite ...f5? One answer is that 16 b3 removes an obstruction to Black's King's Bishop on the long diagonal and so gets pinned the N on c3 which defends the e4 pawn which gets attacked by ...f5. There is also another thing. If White can't respond to ...f5 with e5, that makes the e4 pawn immobile, and according to Lasker, that which is immobile suffers violence. At the risk of repeating what you have said, all this suggests that White pays a price for trying to defend better against Black's Queen side attack. The move 16 b3 which hinders the moves ...Nc4 and ...c4 also exposes White to the advance ...f5.

Feb-08-12		MORPHYEUS: Carlsen scored 100% identical moves vs Houdini at end of 18-ply depth in this game. A perfect game.

Feb-08-12		MORPHYEUS: And this is a rapids game. That's why i'm making a campaign to make rapids the new chess standard time control. There was no loss of game quality at all (at least for Carlsen). I'll probably write to FIDE.

Feb-08-12		drukenknight: should white connect rooks with 21 Re1?

Jul-03-12		fgh: <MORPHYEUS: And this is a rapids game. That's why i'm making a campaign to make rapids the new chess standard time control. There was no loss of game quality at all (at least for Carlsen). I'll probably write to FIDE.> Crappiest reasoning I have seen in the whole year. Bravo.

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