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| Jan-16-15 | | Marmot PFL: Carslen was confident today, and even recorded his victory interview before the game (then skipped out to a soccer match). |
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| Jan-16-15 | | coolconundrum: Sweet game. However I'm puzzled by Blacks 35th move C5, which was also the engines recommendation on the live stream. I don't see the point of it, except perhaps to say "I don't need this pawn, and I don't care if you centralize your knight. I'm gonna win anyway." |
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| Jan-16-15 | | luzhin: Fab clearly missed that rather than grab the offered exchange with Bxa1, Carlsen's Bishop would move to h6 to set up sudden mating threats. A real humiliation for Caruana and a huge boost for the world champion. |
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| Jan-16-15 | | KoNUlla: If knight takes pawn then it doesent protect a2 so Carlsen can put his own rook on e2 |
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Jan-16-15
 | | keypusher: <coolconundrum: Sweet game. However I'm puzzled by Blacks 35th move C5, which was also the engines recommendation on the live stream. I don't see the point of it, except perhaps to say "I don't need this pawn, and I don't care if you centralize your knight. I'm gonna win anyway."> Yeah, that was one of several moves that just baffled me. <whiteshark> posted a nice video annotation of Carlsen-Aronian by Jan Gustafsson, hopefully he'll do this game as well. |
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| Jan-16-15 | | KoNUlla: Playing over it now it looks easy for Carlsen,impressive. Brave playing by Caruana on queenside, he must been taken by total suprise by Carlsens sudden attack on the kingside, fun game. |
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| Jan-16-15 | | SirRuthless: Snap back to reality! |
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Jan-16-15
| | keypusher: <KoNUlla: If knight takes pawn then it doesent protect a2 so Carlsen can put his own rook on e2> You mean 36.Nxc5 Re2 and now Rb2 is unplayable? Nice. I thought White could just play 37.Nb3 but then ...Rde8 looks strong. |
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| Jan-16-15 | | KoNUlla: Yes Keypusher, thats what I mean. sorry, I can't the "chesscodes" yet, but will try to learn if I get any active on this site. Caruana was down on like 3 minuts on the clock, so I guess it was a suprise move to add even more pressure |
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| Jan-16-15 | | Appaz: Just when everyone agrees that Carlsen has a bad endgame ahead, he trade queens. Then, with a bad pawn structure, the bad bishop and no control over the open file, he is simply better in the endgame. |
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| Jan-16-15 | | Marmot PFL: Evidently the commentators expected 29. Kh2 Bf6 30. Bh6 Bg7 31. Bg5 Bf6 and repeats and were surprised by 29. Bxf4 |
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| Jan-16-15 | | haydn20: <Appaz: Just when everyone agrees that Carlsen has a bad endgame ahead, he trade queens. Then, with a bad pawn structure, the bad bishop and no control over the open file, he is simply better in the endgame.> It never really got to an endgame, as MC kept up a blistering middlegame attack. It is amazing how Black's 3 iso's kept the White Qside at bay, and how the threat of Bxa1 stronger than its execution--right to the point where Bh6 destroyed White. |
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| Jan-16-15 | | Appaz: <haydn20> Agree, middle game tactics to the end. |
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Jan-16-15
 | | chancho: In the first two rounds it looked like Magnus had some rust after not playing serious chess since the match with Anand. He's beginning to assert himself in this tournament, and it would not be very surprising if Hou and Jobava dropped like flies in the next two rounds. |
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| Jan-16-15 | | Captain Hindsight: Better would have been <29.Kh2!=> as viable option. |
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| Jan-16-15 | | ajile: Wow nobody is questioning 8..e5? It must be nice to be so feared you can get away with anything in the opening. lol
click for larger viewAnalysis by Rybka 3 32-bit : 20 ply
1. ± (0.80): 9.Nxe5 Nxe4 10.Qf3 f5 11.Bf4 Qe7 12.dxe4 Bxe5 13.0-0-0 Bxf4+ 14.Qxf4 0-0 15.Rhe1 Qf7 16.a3 Ba6 17.Rd6 fxe4 18.Qxf7+ Rxf7 19.Nxe4 Kf8 20.f3 Re8 21.Kd2 2. = (0.20): 9.a4 Qe7 10.Qd2 0-0 11.0-0 a5 12.Bg5 Qd6 13.Rfe1 Be6 14.Be3 Nh5 Note: This is conservative Rybka analysis not Stockfish. +(0.80) is a very good White advantage. |
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| Jan-16-15 | | bennyvsfischer: why on move 9 caruana dint take the pawn e5? |
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| Jan-16-15 | | bennyvsfischer: o i just see ajile whit rybka theorie tx... |
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Jan-16-15
 | | tamar: Daniel King analyzes this game, pointing out that the mysterious 35...c5 36 Nxc5 Re2 would have deprived White of the defense 37...Rb2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGE... |
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| Jan-16-15 | | whiteshark: The World Champion Magnus Carlsen faces his closest rival, World No. 2 Fabiano Caruana. Grandmaster Jan Gustafsson analyses... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4djt... |
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Jan-16-15
 | | FSR: Car Crash. |
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Jan-16-15
 | | Penguincw: When the World #1 and #2 faceoff, I expect the game to be closely fought and end in a draw. Clearly, this is not the case, as out of 12 games between these 2 (including when Caruana was not #2) since 2014, 10 of them ended decisively. |
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Jan-16-15
| | FSR: <ajile> Houdini 3 likewise agrees that 9.Nxe5! is strong, giving as best play thereafter 9...Nxe4 10.Qf3! f5 11.Bf4! Qe7 12. dxe4! Bxe5 13. O-O-O! O-O 14.Bxe5 Qxe5 15.exf5 Bxf5 16.Qxc6 Rae8 17.Qd5+ Qxd5 18.Rxd5 Be4 19.Nxe4 Rxe4 20.Rd2 +.67. Hard to know what to make of 8...e5, which is very rarely seen - only once before in CG.com's database. Opening Explorer Either Carlsen blundered or he's done some very deep analysis. |
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| Jan-16-15 | | suenteus po 147: I hope Caruana is not shaping up to be Korchnoi to Carlsen's Karpov. |
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| Jan-16-15 | | kappertjes: This game feels a bit like a Rossolimo Sicilian transformed into a KID. |
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