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Fabiano Caruana vs Magnus Carlsen
Carlsen - Caruana World Championship Match (2018), rd 5, Nov-15
Sicilian Defense: Nezhmetdinov-Rossolimo Attack. Gurgenidze Variation (B31)  ·  1/2-1/2

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Nov-15-18  diceman: Carlsen has the active King. :)
Nov-15-18  ChessHigherCat: If only white had luft now he could play Rd7 but the tempo is decisive
Nov-15-18  The Kingfish: Caruana went from being a pawn ahead to a pawn behind. This is so disappointing because I want him to win this match. No he's looking for compensation. Not a good sign, but there's still plenty of fight left in this game. Too bad Caruana has been unable to complicate the games sufficiently thus far.
Nov-15-18  ChessHigherCat: sorry Re7
Nov-15-18
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  OhioChessFan: Pawns on one side, Bishop pair gone, I don't see much to work with for either side.
Nov-15-18  Umaga: Carlsen's long match of the king typical of risk taking chess playing and teaching us that the king is also a piece.Nevertheless, Carlsen's risky king movement got a lot of space
Nov-15-18
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  keypusher: The official website points out that Carlsen's king has now captured three pawns. Pfft, mine has captured three pieces. Of course, that was usually on the way to checkmate.
Nov-15-18  zanzibar: I think the draw comes from the exposed Black king getting into a set of perpetual checks from the Q-side.
Nov-15-18
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  keypusher: Speaking of which: 29.Kf1 e4 30.Ne1#. You never know.
Nov-15-18  Ceri: Lots of zero evals:


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48 2:41 0.00 29.Kf1 h5 30.Ra7 e4 31.Ng5 Bb2 32.Nxf7 Nxf7 33.Rxf7 Bd4 34.Bxd4 Kxd4 35.Ke2 Rb5 36.Rd7+ Ke5 37.Re7+ Kd4 38.Rd7+ (2.963.679.661) 18321

47 2:41 0.00 29.Ra7 e4 30.Ng5 Bd4 31.Bxd4 Kxd4 32.Nxh7 f5 33.h4 Ne6 34.g3 Rd6 35.Ng5 Nc5 36.Kg2 Rb6 37.g4 Nd3 38.Ra4+ Ke5 39.Kg3 Rb1 40.gxf5 gxf5 41.Ra5+ Kf6 42.Ra6+ (2.963.679.661) 18321

47 2:41 0.00 29.Ng5 Bh6 30.h4 Bxg5 31.hxg5 Ke4 32.Re7 Rd6 33.Bc5 Rc6 34.Be3 Ne6 35.Rxf7 Rc7 36.Rf6 Rc6 37.Kf1 Ra6 38.g3 Rc6 39.Ke1 Kd5 40.Rf7 Rc7 41.Rxc7 Nxc7 42.Ke2 (2.963.679.661) 18321

Nov-15-18
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  An Englishman: Good Morning: <keypusher>, eat, drink, and be merry, for tomorrow we diet--on g8.
Nov-15-18  not not: this extra pawn is on the wrong side of the board. Lekos favorite game of the match so far!
Nov-15-18  Calli: MC's pieces are now in strangely placed.
Nov-15-18  chessdgc2: After Black takes his K out of check, White threatens Bg5...Black just played ...Kxd3, so Bg5 causes Black some problems
Nov-15-18
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  maxi: It is true the black king does not have a lot of squares
Nov-15-18  Relahara07: Caruana can smile if the draw comes and Carlsen should kneel down before him as the king of défense haha
Nov-15-18  parmetd: Why not Ng5 now?
Nov-15-18
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  FSR: I think Ng5 is met by Bh6.
Nov-15-18  not not: caruana needs to drop bishop on b1 and claim mate via chess bomb rules
Nov-15-18  ChessHigherCat: I don't understand h5. Was that to prevent g4?
Nov-15-18
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  An Englishman: Good Morning: Why didn't Black play 29...h6 to prevent Bg5, and why didn't White play 30.Bg5? Have I overestimated the threat to the f7 pawn?
Nov-15-18  Ulhumbrus: <ChessHigherCat: I don't understand h5. Was that to prevent g4?> One of the GM commentators said that Carlsen played ...h5 because he understood White's potential threats based upon the move g4
Nov-15-18  Ceri: I often find my self thinking: "This type of game can only be won by Queening a pawn, so which pawn might Queen?"

I think none of them.

Cheers,

Ceri

Nov-15-18  Count Wedgemore: Carlsen's king retreat shows how misguided his whole king excursion has been, starting with 20...Kb6. His king was way too exposed, so he had to back down (starting with 30...Ke4), and more or less force the draw after the knight exchanges. Why didn't you play 20...b5, Magnus?
Nov-15-18  whiteshark: Draw agreed, (finally).
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