Magnus Carlsen vs Wesley So (2015)

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Magnus Carlsen vs Wesley So
Sinquefield Cup (2015), St Louis, MO USA, rd 5, Aug-27
Sicilian Defense: Najdorf Variation. English Attack (B90) · 1-0

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Given 12 times; par: 79 [what's this?]

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Aug-29-15		epistle: <tpstar: Good Luck Wesley! Keep fighting. =) > and losing! Yeah!

Aug-29-15		patzer2: <MissScarlett> Fritz confirms your winning line 33. Rxd6 Rxd6 34. Rxd6 Bc7 35. Re6! Bxf4 36. Nd5 Bxg5 37. Rb6! (+3.28 @ 22 depth, Deep Fritz 14) when play might continue 37... Qa8 38. Qc4! Kg8 39. Nf6+ Bxf6 40. Rxf6 Qf8 41. Rc6 f4 42. Rc8 .

Aug-29-15		patzer2: <ozu> Deep Fritz 14 gives 44... Bxd4 45. Rxd4 bxc3 46. Qb3+ Kc6 47. Rc4+ Kd7 48. Rxc3 (+5.09 @ 22 depth).

Aug-30-15		piltdown man: The so fan boys have been quiet lately. Mind you, that may be because I have blocked nearly all of them.

Aug-30-15		MissScarlett: < <MissScarlett> Fritz confirms your winning line 33. Rxd6 Rxd6 34. Rxd6 Bc7 35. Re6! Bxf4 36. Nd5 Bxg5 37. Rb6! (+3.28 @ 22 depth, Deep Fritz 14) when play might continue 37... Qa8 38. Qc4! Kg8 39. Nf6+ Bxf6 40. Rxf6 Qf8 41. Rc6 f4 42. Rc8.> But did it find this from the original position, i.e., without you walking it through?

Aug-30-15		epistle: <Aug-20-15 tappingfoot: <Appaz: Enjoy Sinquefield, So-fans! We stand united in our hopes for a great show. I'll come back and troll a little as soon as Carlsen has beaten So :)> It will never happen, Carlsen personifies Hector and Wesley is Achilles.> Now we know that Carlsen is Paris.

Aug-30-15		keypusher: <Aug-29-15 Premium Chessgames Member patzer2: <MissScarlett> Fritz confirms your winning line 33. Rxd6 Rxd6 34. Rxd6 Bc7 35. Re6! Bxf4 36. Nd5 Bxg5 37. Rb6! (+3.28 @ 22 depth, Deep Fritz 14) when play might continue 37... Qa8 38. Qc4! Kg8 39. Nf6+ Bxf6 40. Rxf6 Qf8 41. Rc6 f4 42. Rc8 .> The problem with engines in positions like this is you have to be a pretty strong player to even benefit from their lines. Did Black really have nothing better than 38....Kg8, stepping into a pin? Did he have to play ...Bxf4 (making Re6-b6 possible)?

Aug-30-15		patzer2: <MissScarlett> It took until 21 depth for Deep Fritz 14 to pick 33. Rxd6 as its best move with a slight advantage calculated. After the program reached 25 depth it calculated 33. Rxd6 as a clear best move with a near winning advantage for White. I did have to "walk it (the Deep Fritz 14 program) through" the line 33. Rxd6 Rxd6 34. Rxd6 Bc7 35. Re6! . Otherwise, Fritz kept wanting to pick the weaker 35. Rd5 to . For difficult and unclear positions, I normally employ the "walk it through" process of checking the analysis to over 20 depth move-by-move. P.S.: I'm running Deep Fritz 14 on an i7-4790 3.6 GHZ quad-core processor with 16 GB of RAM. So the program gets to 20 depth pretty quick. Yet after 20 minutes of calculation and reaching 27 depth, Fritz still hadn't found 35. Re6! from the original position (i.e. 33. ?).

Aug-30-15		ozu: <patzer2> Hey, thanks for looking into that!

Aug-30-15		patzer2: <Did Black really have nothing better than 38....Kg8, stepping into a pin?> I think so, as the threats of 39. Rc6 or 39. Qb5 with the threat of a royal Rook fork are otherwise too powerful. If 38...Bxh6 here (diagram below), click for larger view 39. Nc7! Qa7 40. Qc5+! Kg8 41. Rxg6+ hxg6 42. Qxa7 wins the Black Queen with a clever discovered attack with check. <Did he have to play ...Bxf4 (making Re6-b6 possible)?> According to Fritz, Black's next best alternative is 35...Bd8, but after 36. Qc4! (a move I had to "walk through") Black is busted. Also futile is 35...Qc8 36. Qc4! (+3.12 @ 22 depth).

Aug-30-15		MissScarlett: <<MissScarlett> It took until 21 depth for Deep Fritz 14 to pick 33. Rxd6 as its best move with a slight advantage calculated. After the program reached 25 depth it calculated 33. Rxd6 as a clear best move with a near winning advantage for White. I did have to "walk it (the Deep Fritz 14 program) through" the line 33. Rxd6 Rxd6 34. Rxd6 Bc7 35. Re6! . Otherwise, Fritz kept wanting to pick the weaker 35. Rd5> So it rated 35.Rd5 as 'near winning advantage'? 25 ply is impressive; what hardware do you have?

Aug-30-15		patzer2: <MissScarlett> My hardware is an i7-4790 3.6 GHZ quad core processor with 16 Gb of 1600 MHZ RAM and a 1 GB 7200 RPM hard drive. The software is Deep Fritz 14x64.

Sep-02-15		mrandersson: patzer2 1tb you mean? Out of all the engines to use and pick from ie houdini stockfish komodo do you find deep fritz 14 better to use or is it a case of use what comes with the software type thing? With your cpu my old personal fav Zappa mexico 2 would run like a dream.

Feb-08-16		The Kings Domain: First got to know this game in a YouTube video, I wanted to know the source of So's dissapointment :-). Another fine classical victory by Carlsen.

Sep-17-17		whiteshark: Carlsen explains a 2 move combination vs So: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fh_...

Sep-17-17		Arconax: <whiteshark> Interesting video. And just posted by Carlsen, it seems.

Oct-16-17		cormier: 1) +0.34 (32 ply) 6.g3 e5 7.Nde2 Be7 8.Bg2 Nc6 9.O-O O-O 10.Be3 b5 11.Qd2 Ng4 12.Nd5 Nxe3 13.Nxe3 Be6 14.Nc3 Bg5 15.f4 exf4 16.gxf4 Bh4 17.Rad1 Qb6 18.Kh1 Rfe8 19.a3 Ne7 20.f5 Bc4 21.Nxc4 bxc4 22.Qxd6 Qxb2 2) +0.17 (32 ply) 6.f3 3) +0.16 (32 ply) 6.Be2 e5 7.Nb3 Be7 8.O-O O-O 9.Be3 Be6 10.Qd3 Nc6 11.a3 d5 12.exd5 Nxd5 13.Nxd5 Qxd5 14.Qxd5 Bxd5 15.Rfd1 Be4 16.Nc5 Bxc5 17.Bxc5 Rfd8 18.Bb6 Rxd1+ 19.Rxd1 Nd4 20.Bxd4 exd4 21.f4 Bxc2 22.Rxd4 4) +0.16 (32 ply) 6.Nb3 g6 7.Be2 Bg7 8.Bg5 O-O 9.O-O Nc6 10.f4 h6 11.Bh4 Be6 12.Bf2 Rc8 13.Be3 Qd7 14.h3 b5 15.a3 Qb7 16.Rb1 Rcd8 17.Qd2 Bc4 18.Qe1 Bxe2 19.Qxe2 Nd7 20.f5 g5 21.Rbd1 Bxc3 22.bxc3 5) +0.08 (32 ply) 6.h3 e5 7.Nb3 Be6 8.f4 g6 9.Qf3 d5 10.Bd3 dxe4 11.Nxe4 Nxe4 12.Bxe4 f5 13.Bxb7 Ra7 14.Be3 e4 15.Bxe4 fxe4 16.Qxe4 Re7 17.Bc5 Kf7 18.Bxe7 Bxe7 19.O-O Re8 20.Rad1 Qb6+ 21.Qd4 Nd7 22.Qf2 Qxf2+ 23.Kxf2 Nb6 24.Nd4 Bxa2 25.Rfe1 Bd5 26.b3 Bc5 27.Rxe8 Kxe8 6) +0.08 (32 ply) 6.Be3 e5 7.Nb3 Be7 8.h3 Be6 9.f4 exf4 10.Bxf4 d5 11.e5 Nfd7 12.Nxd5 Bh4+ 13.g3 g5 14.Nf6+ Nxf6 15.gxh4 gxf4 16.Qxd8+ Kxd8 17.exf6 Nd7 18.Bd3 Nxf6 19.Rf1 Nd5 20.Be4 Kc7 21.Bxd5 Bxd5 22.O-O-O Rad8 23.Rxf4 Rhe8 24.Nd4 Re4 25.Rxe4 60.0 minute analysis by Stockfish 8

Oct-16-17		cormier: 1) +0.31 (34 ply) 8.f4 exf4 60.0 minute analysis by Stockfish 8

Oct-16-17		cormier: 1) +0.12 (36 ply) 9.g4 Be7 2) +0.13 (35 ply) 9.Qd2 b5 10.O-O-O Be7 11.a3 h5 60.0 minute analysis by Stockfish 8

Oct-16-17		cormier: 1) +0.16 (34 ply) 9...Qc7 10.g4 Be7 11.O-O-O O-O 12.h4 b5 13.a3 Nb6 14.g5 Nh5 2) +0.29 (34 ply) 9...Be7 10.g4 O-O 11.O-O-O Qc7 12.h4 b5 13.a3 Nb6 14.g5 Nh5 3) +0.40 (34 ply) 9...h5 10.Nd5 60.0 minute analysis by Stockfish 8

Oct-16-17		cormier: 1) =0.00 (29 ply) 10...Qc7 11.g4 h6 12.h4 Nb6 13.Bxb6 Qxb6 14.Kb1 Be7 15.a4 bxa4 16.Nxa4 Qc6 17.Nc3 Qb7 18.Na5 Qc7 19.Nb3 Qb7 2) +0.11 (29 ply) 10...Be7 11.a3 Nb6 12.Na5 Qc7 13.g4 Na4 14.g5 Nxc3 3) +0.14 (29 ply) 10...h6 11.Nd5 Rc8 12.g4 Bxd5 13.exd5 Be7 14.h4 Nb6 4) +0.25 (29 ply) 10...Rb8 11.g4 5) +0.33 (28 ply) 10...Rc8 11.g4 10.0 minute analysis by Stockfish 8

Oct-16-17		cormier: 1) +0.04 (28 ply) 11.a3 h6 12.h4 Qc7 13.g4 Nb6 14.Bxb6 Qxb6 5.0 minute analysis by Stockfish 8

Oct-17-17		cormier: click for larger view Houdini 4: d 27 dpa 1. = (0.04): 8...Be7 9.Qd2 Nbd7 10.0-0-0 h5 11.Kb1 Rc8 2. = (0.04): 8...Nbd7 9.Qd2 Be7 10.0-0-0 h5 11.Kb1 Rc8

Nov-14-22		fredthebear: GM Daniel King video annotations: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lT1...

Nov-14-22		fredthebear: Here is GM Jan Gustafsson: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uw4...

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