Carlsen: Yes, I remember that, I was 13 then (laughs). I want to thank Nikitin for the good promotion he did for me then. He’s an authority figure, and I even heard about it when I returned home. Yes, he also predicted a great future for me.>

ChessPro: I still recall the scene with Alexander Nikitin, Kasparov’s coach, who at one of the first “Aeroflots” stood next to your table and witnessed you crush Dolmatov in 20 moves. He then went around the hall with the scoresheet of that game and breathlessly informed everyone: “This is the game of a genius”…

Magnus: Yes, I remember that, I was 13 then (laughs). I want to thank Nikitin for the good promotion he did for me then. He’s an authority figure, and I even heard about it when I returned home. Yes, he also predicted a great future for me.

Just watched the video. I got distracted for about 30 seconds so that's maybe why he lost me, although I do think his vids are brilliant most of the time. Can't really comment on the game itself now, lol, but I just wanted to say I liked the part where 'Kasparov's trainer' walked around the playing hall saying that "This is the game of a genius!".

Neither, obviously, is true. Nor is this a Dutch, though 2.d4 would have transposed into one. It's a Neo-Lisitsyn ... an improved version of the original Lisitsyn Gambit, 1.Nf3 f5 2.e4.

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BLACK TO MOVE

This diagram depicts the critical moment of the game. Dolmatov played the seemimgly logical and obvious developing move 11....Be7??

Why would such a natural looking move be the losing mistake? Well, Sergey Dolmatov obviously lacked a developed sense to smell possible danger.

Some grandmasters of the past, like Korchnoi, Lasker or Petrosian, could smell danger several moves before the danger appeared; but most ordinary players do not perceive danger until it is too late! It is a gift some players have and some other players do not have.

In this position Black ought to have played 11...h6! according to SF14. But 11...h6 is an engine's move, not a human move. Just imagine you are playing Black in this position: you are behind in development in a position where White can castle on either side, the e-column has been dangerously opened, and then the engine suggests that you play a non-developing move! But the engine has a more acute sense of danger than Petrosian or Lasker, because the engine calculates future possibilities at a rate of several million nodes per second, and so it could easily "smell" the approaching danger when the human players could smell nothing.

A possible continuation would have been something like this:

11...h6! 12.Qe3+ (or 12.Bxf6 Qxf6 13.Ne2 Qxd4 14.Nxd4 Bd7=) 12...Qe7 13.Bxf6 Qxe3+ 14.fxe3 gxf6 15.Rf1 Bd7 16.Ne4 (or else 16.Rxf6 d5 17.e4 b4 18.Ne2 Bg7=) 16...O-O-O! 17.Nxf6 Kc7 18.c3 d5 (=). See diagram below:

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A possible continuation could have been 19...gxh4 20.Nxd5 cxd5 21.Qxh8+ Qe8 22.Qxh6, whereupon Black's weak pawns would be picked up like ripe apples. (See diagram below):

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