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Magnus Carlsen vs Sahaj Grover
PRO Chess League (Knock-Out) (2017) (rapid), chess.com INT, rd 2, Mar-08
Nimzo-Larsen Attack: Modern Variation (A01)  ·  1-0

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Mar-15-17  thegoodanarchist: This was a tactical beatdown by the champ
Mar-15-17  me to play: 10...h6 seems to be the start of black's trouble. 10...Nd7, with the idea of 11...Nf6 may have been a better try.
Aug-05-21  Gaito:


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BLACK TO MOVE

Black could get a comfortable equality after 10...Nd7 with the idea of 11...Nf6 kicking White's queen form her dominant position. Instead he played 10...h6? which in principle is pointless becasuse that pawn is pinned. White's reply 11.Nxf7! must have come as a shower of cold water to the Indian grandmaster Sahaj Grover. The combination is correct and it gives White a decisive advantage already at move eleven. Yet it is not an easy combination to spot. Magnus Carlsen has a very keen and quick tactical eye, to be sure.

Aug-05-21  Gaito: <Mar-15-17 me to play: "10...h6 seems to be the start of black's trouble. 10...Nd7, with the idea of 11...Nf6 may have been a better try."> I am sorry, I hadn't read your comment, so I duplicated the idea you had written.
Aug-05-21  Gaito:


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WHITE TO MOVE

Not Kasparov, but Carlsen is the real "monster of a thousand eyes who sees everything". (The late English GM Tony Miles once said that about Kasparov, but the same could be said now about Magnus Carlsen. His keen tactical vision is frightening!)

I suspect that 99% of the chess players would have captured he g6-knight without thinking twice, especially in a rapid game. But as Lasker once said: "if you see a good move, look for a better one!" Of course, the pinned knight is not going to run away. Magnus Carlsen played the strong move 16.Nb5!! He quickly saw that after 16...cxb5 17.Rxg6 would be a devastating blow. Terrific stuff!

Aug-05-21  Gaito:


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BLACK TO MOVE

If 17...cxb5 18.Rxg7++ (double check, not mate) Ke6 19.Rg6+ Kf5 (Ke7 20.Bxh8 would also be a massacre) 20. Bxh8 Be7 21.Ke2 b6 22.Rxh6 with a quick mate in sight (SF14 assures that there is mate in ten more moves. (We must believe the engine, it never lies)

Aug-05-21  Gaito: I am amazed at the ease with which a grandmaster rated 2528 is slaughtered by the champ, as though the former were a coffee-house amateur. And with 1.b3!

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