Magnus Carlsen vs Nigel Short (2010) French Toast

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Magnus Carlsen vs Nigel Short
"French Toast" (game of the day Dec-16-2010)
London Chess Classic (2010), London ENG, rd 7, Dec-15
French Defense: Rubinstein Variation. Blackburne Defense (C10) · 1-0

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Dec-15-10		tschwartz: first

Dec-15-10		Wyatt Gwyon: Poor Nigel.

Dec-15-10		dcarlisle: this kid is pretty good. Can he drink beer yet?

Dec-15-10		jmboutiere: Magnus stabilised the center, changed active black pieces and won "quietly" on the queen side. Congrat for the game and probably for winning the tournament.

Dec-15-10		jmboutiere: My mistake. the tournament is over, no more rounds. Congrat Carlsen, not probabily, for sure, for winning the tournament

Dec-15-10		Eyal: One of those games that make chess look easy. Apparently Short already gets into trouble with 9...c5 and the initiated exchange of queens that follows - after 12.Be2! (rerouting the bishop to f3) it's clear that Black has serious difficulties to develop his Q-side. According to the live commentators in London, when Anand had a look at the position he opined that even at this early stage it's already nearly (strategically) lost for Black. 22...e5 seems like desperate attempt at gaining activity, but after winning the pawn Carlsen mercilessly snuffs out any possibility of counterplay for Black - 25.Bd3 (preventing ...Rd2); 26.e4 (preventing ...e4); 27.Rb5 (preventing...Rb4). 34.Ke2! threatens c3 to trap the rook on d4, and after 34...Bg4+ 35.Ke1 we've reached a position where if Black plays the bishop back to c8, in order to defend b7, White wins by 36.a6! bxa6 (36...b6 37.a7) 37.Rb8 winning one of the bishops - there are no checks now.

Dec-15-10		Ulhumbrus: Anand said that he did not like the move 10...Qd1, and suggested that it might be the losing mistake. He said that 10...Bxc5 with the Black Queen on e7 was the normal procedure.

Dec-15-10		Marmot PFL: 10...Bxc5 11 Qe2 Nd5 12 Rd1 Qc7 doesn't look so bad.

Dec-15-10		Maatalkko: I've played the exchange French and gotten crushed in blitz after trading queens. Your queenside just gets massively weak. 15. a4 is very good as it stops ...b6 and 15...Bd7 16. Ne5 does not look good.

Dec-15-10		Eyal: <10...Bxc5 11 Qe2 Nd5 12 Rd1 Qc7 doesn't look so bad.> Yeah, it's pretty much a normal Rubinstein. So Short's problem here wasn't that he played an especially dubious opening - he just played the opening badly.

Dec-15-10		jmboutiere: 10...Bc5 + 0,30, 10...Qd1 + 0.49, Rybka 3, agreeing with Anand 14...b6 better than 14...h6 26...g6 better than 26...Rd4 35...Bc8 better than 35...f5

Dec-15-10		jmboutiere: dcarlisle: this kid is pretty good. Can he drink beer yet? No , he is only 20 years old.

Dec-15-10		ChessYouGood: According to the online "Official travel Guide to Norway", the age limit for purchasing beer and wine in Norway is 18 years and for spirits it is 20 years. http://www.visitnorway.com/en/Artic... I think Magnus could drink a few beers and still beat anyone he likes - come to think of it he could probably drink a whole magnum of wine and be unimpressed by the French.

Dec-15-10		SuperPatzer77: < jmboutiere: dcarlisle: this kid is pretty good. Can he drink beer yet? No , he is only 20 years old. > <jmboutiere> That's absolutely right. On his next birthday, he'll get his first beer at age of 21 - Tuborg beer (the product of Denmark). I don't know any Norwegian beer in Norway. Hee Hee. In Scandinavian countries, they have very strict law for drunk driving. It is BAC limit - .04 in the Scandinavian countries. Here in the USA it is .08. SuperPatzer77

Dec-15-10		ChessYouGood: Nøgne Ø, Ægir Bryggeri and Haandbryggeriet are three Norwegian brewers. See http://www.ratebeer.com/BestInMyAre... for a list of the best 25 Norwegian beers. Magnus and other Norwegian 20 year olds can buy some and drink some now.

Dec-15-10		apexin: Good game by Magnus.

Dec-16-10		lionel15: well played Magnus Carlson

Dec-16-10		Oceanlake: 7... Bxf6 feels better

Dec-16-10		An Englishman: Good Evening: I still don't get it; what do GMs and Super-GMs see in 3...dxe4? "Oh, delightful! I get defend a tedious position with no counterplay for 50 moves with hopes for nothing more than a draw at the end!" If that's how they think, then I never "Thought like a Grandmaster."

Dec-16-10		jaguarz: 22.e5??? worst move

Dec-16-10		mike1: Jaguarz: ok, 22nd... e5 and black misses a pawn... but what would you play?

Dec-16-10		Llawdogg: This kid is really good.

Dec-16-10		Dupin: <this kid is pretty good. Can he drink beer yet?> Yes, here in Norway he has been able to drink beer for two years now.

Dec-16-10		Dupin: <dcarlisle: this kid is pretty good. Can he drink beer yet? No , he is only 20 years old.> Wrong, he can drink beer in Norway. He has been able to for two years now. The limit is 18 here.

Dec-16-10		Eyal: In the position after 22.Kf2 White can win a pawn in a few moves anyway, since Black can't hold b7 for long. For example, there's the idea of c3-Nxc8 (c3 is so that the rook doesn't attack c2 after this exchange)-Rd7. Trying to bring the king to the centre with 22...Kf8 doesn't work because of 23.Bb5! (threatening Bd7!) and the king has to go back to g8. Relatively best, perhaps, was 22...f6 23.c3 Kf7, and in case of 24.Bf3 followed by Nxc8 & Bxb7 Black might have chances of saving the endgame because of the bishops of opposite color. Btw, note that another attempt for "activity" with 22...Bc5 is refuted immediately by 23.Rd8+.

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