Magnus Carlsen vs Fabiano Caruana (2017)

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Magnus Carlsen vs Fabiano Caruana
London Chess Classic (2017), London ENG, rd 1, Dec-01
Queen's Gambit Accepted: Classical Defense. Main Lines (D27) · 1/2-1/2

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Dec-01-17		WannaBe: Hey!! The game went more than 41.5 moves!! Winner! Winner!!!!

Dec-01-17		offramp: click for larger view Looks very drawish. But MC like to Sunday-Drive these positions, who knows where he will end up.

Dec-01-17		offramp: White will play g2-g3 to free his king from protecting the g-pawn. Then he will gang up on the black b-pawn and win it. He will then play, very very slowly, b2-b3-b4-b5-b6-b7. Black wil then play Nxb7 and the game will be drawn.

Dec-01-17		An Englishman: Good Morning: Looking at 44.g4 threatening 45.Ke3 and Black has no check on f5.

Dec-01-17		PhilFeeley: <An Englishman: Good Morning: Looking at 44.g4 threatening 45.Ke3 and Black has no check on f5.> It seems he didn't want to do that. Perhaps he didn't want to put it on a white square where black could perhaps attack it.

Dec-01-17		offramp: If Carlsen manages to win this it will appear in zero anthologies.

Dec-01-17		An Englishman: Good Morning: <PhilFeeley>, you're probably right, but perhaps White wanted to hold g4 in reserve. If he plays 46.Ke4 now, g3-g4 might become an even bigger threat than before.

Dec-01-17		An Englishman: Good Morning: White settles for the outside passed pawn. Let's see what he can make of it. Perhaps the ending will end up in the anthologies after all. Looking at 50.Kc5,Bxg4; 51.Na6,Ng6; 52.Ba4+ and 53.Kd6.

Dec-01-17		offramp: 2X2L calling CQ... 2X2L calling CQ... 2X2L calling CQ.... New York. Isn't there anyone on the air? Isn't there anyone on the air? Isn't there anyone on the air...?

Dec-01-17		WannaBe: Carlsen, up a pawn, there he goes again... Probably will be a drawn game. =))

Dec-01-17		varishnakov: Carlsen blundered his knight and had to settle for a draw.

Dec-01-17		Imran Iskandar: A good fighting game.

Dec-01-17		An Englishman: Good Morning: Gobsmacked. Totally, thoroughly and robustly gobsmacked.

Dec-01-17		Gypsy: <Carlsen blundered his knight and had to settle for a draw.> Just a little jest; one of many ways to finalize the draw. (There was no win anywhere in in sight, for either side.)

Dec-01-17		SirRuthless: Carlsen once again blows a great chance he would have converted three years ago. Interesting game regardless of the result.

Dec-01-17		Mirovsk: Could someone explain why Magnus didn't play 46.Kd2 instead of 46.Ke4?

Dec-01-17		Petrosianic: Could you explain why you think he should have?

Dec-01-17		Marmot PFL: 46 Kd2 looks like it could win, as b3 can't be defended. Black has to find play somewhere else which isn't easy to see.

Dec-01-17		keypusher: <SirRuthless: Carlsen once again blows a great chance he would have converted three years ago. Interesting game regardless of the result.> Do you ever tire of being the laughingstock of CG.com?

Dec-01-17		SirRuthless: You think you can provoke me with personal attacks <keypusher>? You can't hurt me. You can't even seem to ignore me. Much like the ailing and perhaps demented <perfidious>, it seems I occupy a bit too much real-estate in your consciousness and you should be advised to focus your attention on the things that matter to you. Don't waste your time trying to alienate me or insult me. Just ignore my content, post something meaningful or useful, maybe some actual analysis for a change and grow up.

Dec-01-17		perfidious: <keypusher....Do you ever tire of being the laughingstock of CG.com?> I will treat that as a rhetoric and not a question. (laughs)

Dec-02-17		Qindarka: There wasn't ever a clear win in this game, was there?

Dec-02-17		offramp: <Qindarka: There wasn't ever a clear win in this game, was there?> No. White could have played 46. Kd2, instead of 46. Ke4, as mentioned by the great <Mirovsk>. click for larger view The idea is Kc3, of course. But even if White won the ♙b3, would that win? If White reached a position similar to this: click for larger view ...How many moves, how many hours or even days away is a win?

Dec-02-17		Ulhumbrus: After 12 f3 Black's queen's bishop bites on granite. Sooner or later Black will have to find a way to either bring this bishop into play or at least gain compensation for its obstruction. As the move 12 f3 leaves the h5 square undefended this suggests the manoeuvre ...Nf6-h5-f4 and one way to prepare the manoeuvre is by 12...Qc7. Another idea is a black square attack by ...Qc7 and ...Bd6 as 12 f3 has displaced the defender of the black square g3. An alternative to 18...Bc6 is 18...Nh5 heading for f4 if White allows it. The further course of the game suggests that Caruana makes no attempt to take advantage of the move f3 by starting a black square attack either upon h2 or upon f4.

Dec-03-17		keypusher: < SirRuthless: You think you can provoke me with personal attacks <keypusher>? You can't hurt me. You can't even seem to ignore me. Much like the ailing and perhaps demented <perfidious>, it seems I occupy a bit too much real-estate in your consciousness and you should be advised to focus your attention on the things that matter to you. Don't waste your time trying to alienate me or insult me. Just ignore my content, post something meaningful or useful, maybe some actual analysis for a change and grow up.> You are correct, I suppose, in the sense that <any> time spent thinking about you could be better spent some other way; but do you really think you take up much of anyone's time?

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