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Apr-30-14
 | | chancho: Many people would be demoralized after losing two consecutive games, but not Magnus Carlsen. He just stepped on the throttle and never let up.
That's championship quality right there. |
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Apr-30-14
 | | offramp: <chancho: ...He just stepped on the throttle and never let up. That's championship quality right there.>
Right where? On the throttle? How did it get there? |
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Apr-30-14
| | chancho: Lol... |
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| Apr-30-14 | | beenthere240: <Sally> Nice find and observation. 43. Nb5 takes away 2 keys squares from the queen. This is followed by the repeat checks and pining the rook on g6. I liked the way Carlsen finished -- by moving TOWARD the checking black queen. |
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| Apr-30-14 | | Tadeucouto: Carlsen again!
He is the best.
Ad secula seculorum! |
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| Apr-30-14 | | peristilo: Sergey! I love to look at his results! Never let him become a world champion; Beating him won't be easy! |
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| Apr-30-14 | | csmath: Karjakin's chances to become world champion as long as Magnus is around are close to 0. |
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Apr-30-14
 | | Domdaniel: A Reversed Gruenfeld, no? Kamsky has played like this as White, and I'm also reminded of some of Tony Miles's games. A more typical sequence might be something like 1.Nf3 Nf6 2.g3 d5 3.Bg2 c5 4.d4 etc. |
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| Apr-30-14 | | Marmot PFL: <Caruana beaten in the opening playing rather strange while original game. I really do not know what to think of this, it seems to me he simply crashed without much fight.> Black took some risks trying to win. This fails with black much more often than not, but the loss didn't affect his place in the standings. |
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| Apr-30-14 | | mrbasso: It affects his reputation,rating and probably it affects his future results against Carlsen as well. |
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Apr-30-14
 | | Dionysius1: So, is it just that Carlsen gets lazy/arrogant and loses the occasional game when he's in bored/spoilt brat mode? The rest of the time he seems to do ok! |
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| Apr-30-14 | | TangoJoseph: lovely game , both played great , it was really double edged , a battle of the mind and idea's EXCELLENT |
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| Apr-30-14 | | 1971: People like to refer to Carlsen as an endgame player but these type of middlegames are just as frequent as his endgame grinds. Caruana's 1. d4 defenses remain a problem, he loses with black way too much out of the opening for a top player, he has to tighten up with black. |
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| Apr-30-14 | | csmath: It is interesting to add that Magnus has been absolutely meticulous in final execution of the game but Caruana did not test it completely. Here is position after 31. e4:
click for larger viewCaruana played 31. ...fxe4 and lost. The other interesting option was: 31. ...Bh6
32. Qb1!
[Amazingly powerful move - if black opens a file with fxe4 then white gets diagonal.] 32. ...fxe4
33. Rd1
click for larger viewand now no matter black tries it is white that conducts attack.
Would Magnus found powerful 31. Qb1! I don't know but this game he played well so I tend to believe he could. |
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| Apr-30-14 | | csmath: <People like to refer to Carlsen as an endgame player but these type of middlegames are just as frequent as his endgame grinds.> Good point. Magnus plays excellent endgames but it is the complex middlegame where he excels and where his intuitive grasp of position is the best in the world. While Caruana is amazing calculator himself he could not outcalculate Magnus in this game. |
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Apr-30-14
 | | HeMateMe: <You have to know a lot and be able to use it> I knew a working girl on Houston Street who said the same thing. |
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Apr-30-14
 | | tamar: Charting Carlsen's Queen brilliant career
Qd1-c1xa1-b1-c1-e3-e2-e4
somehow each move important, controlling events from afar, and only coming off the back rank when Caruana's army had been weakened. |
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| Apr-30-14 | | floberg2011: Carlsen missed several "best moves" but still made a "good move" in certain positions. Example 36 b4 wins but [36 Nxb7 (1/38) means out of 38 moves Houdini considers this the best 3.50 ] 43 Nb5  5.56 [ 43 Kh1 (1/41) 7.10]
Caruana made several mistakes, as already posted (20...f5? , 25...h5) As Kasparov remarked years ago, "It is absolutely impossible for a human to out calculate the computer". floberg2011 |
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| May-01-14 | | morfishine: Caruana needed to try <20...Nxc3> and play for activity after 21.Qxc3 d4 ***** |
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| May-01-14 | | Chris321: Caruana has beaten himself here,Carlsen didn't have to.Carlsen just nodged him gently on to do what he(Caruana) must do.Well Napolian said it right"Never interupt your enemies when they are about to make a mistake"...was also the mayor theme in this game by the looks of it!...haha |
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| May-01-14 | | csmath: Indeed 20. ...f5? was an error, I missed that.
After 20. Nd2 the position is
click for larger viewObvious alternative to 20. ...f5? is 20. ...Nd6 and I think the reason why Caruana did not go that way is that after 21. cxd6 Qxd6
exposing black queen on a file with rook is really not a good idea. After 22. Nc4 there is no good square apart from d8 for the queen. But the ever fearless engine finds
21. ...Qd7
22. h4 f5
with compensation for pawn:
click for larger viewMore importantly this is not so inhuman at all and it looks rather intuitive as a matter of fact. |
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| May-01-14 | | csmath: Now in this venue it seems that neither 16. h3 nor 20. Nd2 were great moves by Carlsen. Position before 20. Nd2 was:
click for larger viewHere white has a powerful move
20. c4
and after obvious
20. ...d4
21. Nxe4 dxe3
22. fxe3 Bf5
click for larger viewwhite needs to keep e5-pawn blocked and black might have to exchange light-square bishop for example: 23. Nfd2 Bxe4
24. Bxe4! f5
25. Bxc6 bxc6
26. Nf1! f4
27. Qb1 Qxc5
28. Qe4
keeping the extra pawn with reduced material good chances to play for a win because of the queenside pawn majority. It is actually harder to find better continuation instead of 16. h3 so I cannot honestly label that as ?! as I do not see anything better. This is indeed one very complex middlegame. |
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| May-01-14 | | csmath: Strange, original, complex, and very rich game for analysis. I'd like to see these two playing for World Championship. |
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| May-01-14 | | Spingilegna: <csmath:"I'd like to see these two playing for World Championship."> The way Fabiano played yesterday, makes me think that he already is on the way of preparing himself for that. It makes me think he was trying to test Magnus, knowing that he could have paid this with a loss. Goodbye |
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| May-01-14 | | Garech: What a great clash of talent given the tournament standings going into the final round! No doubt Fabiano was heartbroken, but kudos to him for giving it his all. Magnus, as always, was like a machine. There was an interesting moment at move 14: instead of ...h6 the option is there for Bxe2!? but, in actual fact, this is a blunder because it allows white a powerful exchange sacrifice in 15.Rxd5! 
click for larger viewblack does not have to accept, of course, but if he does the game is taken into exactly the kind of territory (eventually) where Carlsen excels - a favourable endgame. In all lines white has the advantage from the beginning in any case, and it's an instructive example of the power of a stronger centre vs. material advantage. I did a shootout on Fritz 12 which led to the following line after a couple of hours: 15...Nxd5 16.Bxd5 Nd8 17.Qc2 Bh5 18.f3 h6 19.Nh3 e4 20.fxe4 g5 21.Nf2 Nc6 22.Rf1 Kh7 23.Nd3 Bg6 
click for larger viewas indicated, white is dominating, despite the material disadvantage - the evaluation is at +2.00 Forty moves later and white has a crushing endgame advantage. Pretty impressive that both players could instinctively evaluate 14...Bxe2 as a bad move, especially because it was a long-term positional exchange sacrifice. Great game!
Garech |
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