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Magnus Carlsen vs Hikaru Nakamura
World Blitz Championship (Tiebreaks) (2019) (blitz), Moscow RUS, rd 2, Dec-30
Formation: Queen Pawn Game: London System (D02)  ·  1-0

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Mar-06-20  nikromos: How in the world did Carlsen miss 26. Rh7? Wasn't that the whole point of his setup?
Mar-07-20  Nerwal: Psychology at the end of a very tiring tournament. He just wanted to cash in and secure the win. Nakamura had less than 10 seconds left so he quickly played something easy grabbing material while keeping the attack.
Mar-15-20
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  Jonathan Sarfati: Exactly, 26.♖xh7+ ♔xh7 27.♕h5+ ♔g8 28.♘e7#, a variation on Anastasia's Mate, wasn't that hard even for ordinary players, let alone the world champ.

And how did Stockfish 9 annotating this game miss it? My Stockfish 8 64 found it instantly.

Mar-15-20  SChesshevsky: <...did Carlsen miss 26. Rh7...> Not really. In blitz these guys are probably looking ahead 5 moves give or take. So at 21. Nd6, which it looked like Carlsen wasn't totally sure of, his flow was focused on f7 and no way h7.

Appears only after Nakamura tried to get tricky with 21...Nb3 and 22...Qa4 did it allow the rook to swing over and then to even consider h7. Pretty sure if Carlsen had lots of time to casually reconsider his plan, he would've spotted 26. Rh7. But time's running and saw the original f7 idea was winning so...

Related to a long tiring tournament, worth watching the game video on YouTube just to see both players expression when trying and seemingly failing to remember the prep for the opening.

Apr-04-20  amadeus: Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-7...

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