chessgames.com
Members · Prefs · Laboratory · Collections · Openings · Endgames · Sacrifices · History · Search Kibitzing · Kibitzer's Café · Chessforums · Tournament Index · Players · Kibitzing
Sergey Karjakin vs Magnus Carlsen
Carlsen - Karjakin World Championship Match (2016), New York, NY USA, rd 2, Nov-12
Spanish Game: Closed. Martinez Variation (C78)  ·  1/2-1/2

ANALYSIS [x]

FEN COPIED

explore this opening
find similar games 95 more Karjakin/Carlsen games
PGN: download | view | print Help: general | java-troubleshooting

TIP: If you missed a Game of the Day, you can review the last year of games at our Game of the Day Archive.

PGN Viewer:  What is this?
For help with this chess viewer, please see the Olga Chess Viewer Quickstart Guide.
PREMIUM MEMBERS CAN REQUEST COMPUTER ANALYSIS [more info]

A COMPUTER ANNOTATED SCORE OF THIS GAME IS AVAILABLE.  [CLICK HERE]

Kibitzer's Corner
< Earlier Kibitzing  · PAGE 17 OF 17 ·  Later Kibitzing>
Nov-12-16
Premium Chessgames Member
  perfidious: <An Englishman: Good Evening: Carl Panzram was another real-life horror....>

Really a piece of work--a walking advert for the death penalty.

On the gallows at last, he exclaimed to his executioner:

<'Hurry up, you Hoosier b******! I could kill a hundred men while you're fooling around!'>

Nov-12-16  John Abraham: Karjakin missed 23. c3! It is surprising how a player of his caliber can miss such a move.
Nov-12-16  RookFile: And if he does play 23. c3, what happens then - 23. c3 Bd6 24. Ng3 Nbd7 25. Ra6 Rc8 and the game is equal?
Nov-12-16  johnny6: <John Abraham>

If 23.c3 then there follows...

Analysis by Stockfish 160716 64:

23...Bf8 24.Ng3 Nbd7 25.Ba3 Bxa3 26.Rxa3 Ra8 27.Rxa8 Rxa8 28.Nf5 Kf8 29.b4 Ra3 30.Re3 c5 31.Nd6 cxb4 32.cxb4 Ra4 33.Nxb5 Rxb4 34.Nd6 g6 35.Kf1 Ke7 36.Nc8+ Ke8 37.Nd6+ Kf8 38.Rd3 Rb1+ 39.Ke2 Rb2+ 40.Rd2 Rb4 41.Ke3 Ke7 42.Nc8+ Ke8 43.Nd6+ Kf8 44.Rc2 Ke7 = (-0.17) Depth: 31/48 00:00:26 27723kN

(johnny6, 12.11.2016)

Nov-12-16  sfm: <John Abraham: Karjakin missed 23. c3! It is surprising how a player of his caliber can miss such a move.> Indeed! He probably just didn't see it.
Nov-13-16  lost in space: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8i...

Radio Jan and his comments to game No.2

Nov-13-16
Premium Chessgames Member
  Sally Simpson: You cannot just plug in a computer and hope it's vomit makes it clear to the lad what maybe wrong with 23. c3

Hi John,


click for larger view

On the surface there is nothing wrong with 23.c3 but it is not a killer move. It gains a tempo which in this position means nothing.

The good guys (and these two are not too bad) give double thought to every pawn move.

The likes of me and you ruin our positions with thoughtless pawn moves and then wonder why we lose when we bump into one of the good guys.

These positions are all about not accepting responsibility.

Look at the position again. Black has the d-file. Big Deal, what is he going to with it. He cannot get into White's position.

However, when the c2-pawn goes to c3 the square d3 needs looking after and the suddenly so does the b3 pawn (responsibility).

An annoying twat like Carlsen will lick his lips and be thinking of Nd7-c5 eyeing d3 and if White plays b3-b4 to stop Nc5 then the b6 Knight hops onto c4. (not to mention with pawns on c3 and b4 the b2 Bishop is useless and needs go to c1 to get back into game which in turn interrupts the connection of the Rooks.)

All these little things matter, especially if you face an annoying twat like Carlsen. He is a genius at exploiting these little things.

Of course you cannot sit back in awe and watch him dance all over you, you have to do things yourself. But what?

All you have done with 23.c3 is given yourself the responsibility of holding weakened squares and have forced yourself to go ultra active against a solid position from a position that is not quite geared up to create counter play.

Carlsen played 22...Bf8-b4 tempting 23.c3 and then he goes back to f8 again. That's how annoying he is. Fortunately Karjakin is not easily annoyed and kept the c2 pawn on c2.

Todays lesson is keep your hands off the middle game pawns unless you can find three good reasons for moving one. And when you do...move a piece instead. If you are wrong then you can move it back again. You cannot do that with a pawn.

Nov-13-16
Premium Chessgames Member
  perfidious: <'Fellow Luddite' Geoff: You cannot just plug in a computer and hope it's vomit makes it clear to the lad what maybe wrong with 23. c3....>

I'll sign that--it takes insight to understand the position, as opposed to reading evals of, say, +.23 or -.12, not to mention comprehending the different types of small advantages/disadvantages within those slippery numbers, which appear to erode some posters' ability to think critically.

As you once said to <AJ>: you're a good player; use your head and shut the dang thing off!

<....The likes of me and you ruin our positions with thoughtless pawn moves and then wonder why we lose when we bump into one of the good guys....>

Been there, done that--it is also possible to go wrong through undertaking nothing by seeing ghosts at every turn.

<....All these little things matter, especially if you face an annoying twat like Carlsen. He is a genius at exploiting these little things....>

So much so that the pesky wretch is numero uno.

<....Todays lesson is keep your hands off the middle game pawns unless you can find three good reasons for moving one. And when you do...move a piece instead. If you are wrong then you can move it back again. You cannot do that with a pawn.>

Many a beginning player has had to learn this lesson.

Nov-13-16
Premium Chessgames Member
  Sally Simpson: Hi Perfidious,

Even if I'm wrong someone will have to come on and speak chess instead of binary.

What a dreary game of chess. I have to do a mini piece on each game.

I got as far as 6 moves, knew what was coming and jacked it in. I simply cannot subject my readers to games like this.

We know what's going on in Karjakin's mind.

'Come and get me.....Champ!'

It's not going to be pretty.

The two guys (my contacts) at the venue have been arrested.

http://www.redhotpawn.com/chess-blo...

Nov-13-16  Ulhumbrus: How about this possibility: Kramnik could have advised Karjakin to draw the first two games so as to gain some confidence. Karjakin has no experience in these matches, to give one reason
Nov-13-16  WorstPlayerEver: After 13... Nc4 the music was gone. 13. Ra1 lost another tempo.
Nov-13-16
Premium Chessgames Member
  perfidious: <Shams: <kingfu> <Dom, I picked up the bad pawn snatching habit from Korchnoi on the black side of the French. Difference: Korchnoi would usually win and I am not Viktor(ious)!>

Another pitfall is trying to copy his French IQP games which are very dynamic....>

There was a player/writer back in the seventies--do not recall whom--who suggested that someone aspiring to improve their game should 'adopt' a top player, and follow his opening repertoire.

As to playing with the Tarrasch French IQP, it requires great mastery of the dynamic elements, as was seen when Karpov took up the cudgels long ago. Was never my bag, but that's the way it goes; I almost always played 3....Nf6 against the Tarrasch and never once tried 3....c5.

Nov-13-16
Premium Chessgames Member
  moronovich: <There was a player/writer back in the seventies--do not recall whom--who suggested that someone aspiring to improve their game should 'adopt' a top player, and follow his opening repertoire.>

I know e.g. GM Keene has said so.

Nov-13-16
Premium Chessgames Member
  Sally Simpson: When adopting a top player to follow I think it's important you pick one whose style you like and in whose style you think you play.

If unsure in whose style you play ask a colleague. You might think you are a Tal or a Petrosian, other might see you differently.

I latched onto John Nunn. I picked up and played to good effect his entire repertoire from his articles in B.C.M.

I once told him this in a bar and suggested because I like the Latvian Gambit could he please start playing it so I could start playing it.

John Nunn has some amazing facial expression of shock and horror. He also drinks very fast and can run at quite a nifty gallop.

Nov-13-16  LucB: <John Nunn has some amazing facial expression of shock and horror. He also drinks very fast and can run at quite a nifty gallop.>

... only in the presence of someone mentioning the Latvian gambit!

Nov-13-16  Chizoad: <RichardTaylor>: I grew up in the southeastern part of the United States. In Alabama, the Christianity is practiced only by those in political office and the religious gathering on the weekend is at the football stadium. I never mentioned to anyone that I play chess or have a college degree or even have a brain. Thinking is looked upon with suspicion.

Speaking of the news, I hope you and everyone else there is safe in New Zealand after the terrible earthquake.

Nov-13-16
Premium Chessgames Member
  Sally Simpson: Hi LucB,

Yep, it was the mention of the Latvian that did it.

If I recall correctly his hasty exit left me hanging with the bar bill.

:)

----

Actually we did chat in a bar in Edinburgh and I admitted I nicked his rep. He told me was venturing into the world of problem composition.

I think at the time his very first chess problem made the cover of BCM.

I replied something to the effect that I would not be following him down that path.

Nov-13-16  Christoforus Polacco: Yesterday my first conclusion was - after 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 it would be total mental shock for Karjakin : 2.... f5 :)) My variant is 3.N:e5 Qe7 4.Qh5+ g6 5.N:g6 Q:e4+ 6.Be2 Nf6 7.Qh3 Rg8 8.N:f8 (8.f3? Q:c2 9.Nc3 R:g6 10.f4! Nd5! and unclear but rather drawn -perpetual check in one variant ) 8.... Q:g2 9.Q:g2 R:g2 and unclear situation with drawn chances.
Nov-13-16
Premium Chessgames Member
  Sally Simpson: It would also be a mental shock for Carlsen. According to here neither the two of them have played it or faced it.
Nov-14-16  Christoforus Polacco: But it's possible to play King's Gambit :) Alekhin played against Euwe ''crazy'' variants. It's psychological weapon. King's Gambit Carlsen vs Wang Yue, 2010 or Latvian is communication : ''I am better. I fare so good :) '' Even at blitz. Karjakin is not good in KG - it's a some strange because Russians were good in chess classic. Karjakin is probably too modern.
Nov-16-16  Abdel Irada: ∞

<perfidious: As to playing with the Tarrasch French IQP, it requires great mastery of the dynamic elements, as was seen when Karpov took up the cudgels long ago. Was never my bag, but that's the way it goes; I almost always played 3....Nf6 against the Tarrasch and never once tried 3....c5.>

In principle, both moves are sound and playable. But as one who only plays *against* the French, and consistently uses the Tarrasch, I have to say I'm always happy to see 3. ...Nf6.

That line stays far more in line with traditional French pawn structure and consequent thematic play. In other words: It's a lot of fun for a creative attacker with the white pieces, and only a very strong player with the black pieces can avoid letting himself in for such "fun."

Now, 3. ...c5, on the other hand: That's a whole different kind of game, and suddenly it is White who must play very soundly to avoid dangerous counterplay.

Nov-16-16
Premium Chessgames Member
  Domdaniel: <Sally S.> I latched onto Tony Miles. I played him once - a dynamic simul draw - but I never got the chance to tell him how much I admired him.
Nov-16-16
Premium Chessgames Member
  Domdaniel: <Abdel Irada> I've played both 3...Nf6 and 3...c5 against the Tarrasch French (I've also played 3...a6, 3...dxe4, 3...Nc6, 3...Be7, 3...b6, among others, but that's another story.

I agree with you broadly about ...Nf6 vs ...c5. I no longer play 3...Nf6: I don't like having to play ...Nfd7, and white's attacking lines with Nf4 are dangerous. But 3...c5 gives black a good game, whether with ...Qxd5 or ...exd5.

Nov-19-16  cormier: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yu... game 2 k - c
Nov-25-16  Abdel Irada: ∞

<Domdaniel: <Abdel Irada> I've played both 3...Nf6 and 3...c5 against the Tarrasch French (I've also played 3...a6, 3...dxe4, 3...Nc6, 3...Be7, 3...b6, among others, but that's another story.>

An expert of my long acquaintance, named Richard Flacco (who was also, in my college days, my first chess teacher), used to swear that 3. ...Be7 refuted the Tarrasch!

Jump to page #    (enter # from 1 to 17)
search thread:   
< Earlier Kibitzing  · PAGE 17 OF 17 ·  Later Kibitzing>

NOTE: Create an account today to post replies and access other powerful features which are available only to registered users. Becoming a member is free, anonymous, and takes less than 1 minute! If you already have a username, then simply login login under your username now to join the discussion.

Please observe our posting guidelines:

  1. No obscene, racist, sexist, or profane language.
  2. No spamming, advertising, duplicate, or gibberish posts.
  3. No vitriolic or systematic personal attacks against other members.
  4. Nothing in violation of United States law.
  5. No cyberstalking or malicious posting of negative or private information (doxing/doxxing) of members.
  6. No trolling.
  7. The use of "sock puppet" accounts to circumvent disciplinary action taken by moderators, create a false impression of consensus or support, or stage conversations, is prohibited.
  8. Do not degrade Chessgames or any of it's staff/volunteers.

Please try to maintain a semblance of civility at all times.

Blow the Whistle

See something that violates our rules? Blow the whistle and inform a moderator.


NOTE: Please keep all discussion on-topic. This forum is for this specific game only. To discuss chess or this site in general, visit the Kibitzer's Café.

Messages posted by Chessgames members do not necessarily represent the views of Chessgames.com, its employees, or sponsors.
All moderator actions taken are ultimately at the sole discretion of the administration.

This game is type: CLASSICAL. Please report incorrect or missing information by submitting a correction slip to help us improve the quality of our content.

<This page contains Editor Notes. Click here to read them.>

Home | About | Login | Logout | F.A.Q. | Profile | Preferences | Premium Membership | Kibitzer's Café | Biographer's Bistro | New Kibitzing | Chessforums | Tournament Index | Player Directory | Notable Games | World Chess Championships | Opening Explorer | Guess the Move | Game Collections | ChessBookie Game | Chessgames Challenge | Store | Privacy Notice | Contact Us

Copyright 2001-2025, Chessgames Services LLC