Alexander Motylev vs Magnus Carlsen (2007)

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Alexander Motylev vs Magnus Carlsen
Biel Chess Festival (2007), Biel SUI, rd 4, Jul-27
Spanish Game: Morphy Defense. Breyer Defense Zaitsev Hybrid (C95) · 0-1

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Jul-27-07		Honza Cervenka: 35.Bd6?? is hot candidate for blunder of the century.:-(

Jul-27-07		mandar: This was really bad.... I was sure on my insincts (sneaky knows it)

Jul-27-07		square dance: sometimes its better to be lucky than norwegian. in this case carlsen was both! :-D

Jul-27-07		ahmadov: I promise not to regret after losing in a winning position at our tea house after seeing this game...

Jul-27-07		alexmagnus: <Honza> Kramnik's 34..Qe3?? against Fritz beats it easily.

Jul-27-07		Ybrevo: I´d love to meet Motylev over the board one day, if this is the way he plays in time-trouble. They should give him a minus 1000 ELO penalty for this blunder. But then again, I feel sorry for the guy, because he played a very good game until the final.

Jul-27-07		keypusher: <Troller> Yes, that must be it.

Jul-27-07		Karpova: <acirce: I take back what I said earlier.> Motylev being underrated/underestimated?

Jul-27-07		Eyal: As it happened, 32...e4 may have been the move that won the game for Carlsen in practical terms - it's objectively losing, but it created a lot of tactical complications which Motylev couldn't cope with in time trouble.

Jul-27-07		ahmadov: <square dance: sometimes its better to be lucky than norwegian. in this case carlsen was both! :-D> LOL Well said... After winning this game, Carlsen is leading the field...

Jul-27-07		iron maiden: And Motylev actually thought for several minutes on that one, too! Rough.

Jul-27-07		Honza Cervenka: <square dance: sometimes its better to be lucky than norwegian. in this case carlsen was both! :-D> LOL! I would say that today Magnus has suffered win.

Jul-27-07		Karpova: Motylev was Short away from winning this one

Jul-27-07		boz: <Wannabe> you was swindled.

Jul-27-07		acirce: <<acirce: I take back what I said earlier.> Motylev being underrated/underestimated?> Yes, but I was joking. I think he is quite underestimated. <it created a lot of tactical complications which Motylev couldn't cope with in time trouble.> There weren't any particular "tactical complications" worth mentioning. Motylev blundered a piece out of nowhere. He could have done that in any position. <35.Bd6?? is hot candidate for blunder of the century.:-(> That is what happens when you work too much with Kramnik.

Jul-27-07		Honza Cervenka: <As it happened, 32...e4 may have been the move that won the game for Carlsen in practical terms - it's objectively losing, but it created a lot of tactical complications which Motylev couldn't cope with in time trouble.> Maybe but 35.Bd6?? was product of some strange Motylev's halucination than tactical complexity of the position.

Jul-27-07		realbrob: This isn't going to become a game of the day, I think. I also suppose that when you're in time trouble you shouldn't plan difficult sacrifices but play a good, solid, intuitive move. Which in our case was 35.Qg6 maybe.

Jul-27-07		Sneaky: I can explain what happened here. Motylev was looking at deep and rich lines which contained the Bd6! manuveur in positions where it actually made sense. Then he pulled the classic brain-freeze, and he played the move out of order. Oh well, we are only humans. Chess sometimes ends this way.

Jul-27-07		norami: Motylev is drunk.

Jul-27-07		zanshin: Too bad for Motylev. 35.Qg6 or 35.Rf1 is winning.

Jul-27-07		chancho: Motylev: Have Bishop will blunder.

Jul-27-07		Gegga: Time is an important factor! Did Motylev have a winning advantage? I don't think he did?

Jul-27-07		realbrob: <32..e4> I'm so bad I don't even have a rating, but 32..e4 just said "take the pawn, I can't defend it!". 33.Rxe4 wasn't a difficult move to find.

Jul-27-07		djmercury: Carlsen was really lucky to have escaped a loss here, even when he had the chance to get back on track with 34. ... Rd8 he missed it. However at the end Qe5 turned out to be even better, as white replied with the istant loosing move Bd6.

Jul-27-07		Eyal: <There weren't any particular "tactical complications" worth mentioning. Motylev blundered a piece out of nowhere. He could have done that in any position.> There were a lot of complications in the previous moves, and these things tend to have a cumulative effect, especially in time trouble; and the position where he made the blunder wasn't simple as well, though of course such a gross blunder is quite amazing in itself. Anyway, my main point was that had Carlsen played an objectively better move like 32...Ra8/d8, he might actually have made Motylev's life easier.

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