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Jan-15-22
 | | keypusher: <dunkenchess: Is game 6 a Catalan Opening of the queen side. Anyone> According to Opening Explorer on this website b2-b3 knocks it out of Catalan territory. Just call it a Queen's Pawn Game. Why do you care? The name of the opening is pretty much the least interesting thing about this game. |
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| Jan-15-22 | | dunkenchess: Ty Pusher it's Queen's Pawn game. It was very wrong for Nepo to give his 2 rooks for the queen that cost the game. It could have gone for another draw had he did not gave his 2 rooks on move 25. |
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| Jan-15-22 | | SChesshevsky: <Is game 6 a Catalan Opening...> Looks more of a try for a Reti double fianchetto with a deferred c4. Which believe Carlsen has setup before. Feels like something probably went slightly wrong as don't think position as of 16. Bg5 was whites opening plan. |
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| Feb-06-22 | | EvanTheTerrible: How has this not been game of the day? |
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Feb-06-22
 | | Williebob: <EvanTheTerrible: How has this not been game of the day?>
Ongoing deliberation over pun material in the back office. |
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| Apr-12-22 | | whiteshark: The moment when Nepo resigned the game: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1H... (19 sec) |
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| Apr-12-22 | | MatrixManNe0: My opinion is that the GOTD title for this should just be "Game Six," a nod to The 1998 Bulls' win over the Utah Jazz in Game Six, considered one of Michael Jordan's greatest games, and the one that led to his final championship ring. |
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Apr-12-22
 | | MissScarlett: <My opinion is that the GOTD title for this should just be "Game Six> I estimate the chance of this happening as between nought and zero. |
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| Apr-12-22 | | MatrixManNe0: That's why it's a personal opinion and not a strong suggestion |
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| May-24-22 | | TheaN: <VerySeriousExpert: Magnus Carlsen's 10.Nbd2? is a very weak gambit. In fact, it's a handicap gambit (like the Jerome gambit, for example).> Eh. Reading this just now, but intriguing. This is <nowhere near> the unsoundness of the Jerome. It's entirely common in the Catalan to give up c4, whether it is by just leaving the Black pawn or allowing cxb3. Fwiw, here 10....cxb3 11.Nxb3 cannot be good for Black. SF gives the somewhat dubious 11....Ba3, trading whilst up, followed by the weirdly looking 12.Na5 ⩲ which locks the queen side up. Don't think I would consider either move, but White has the initiative here: I doubt Pb7 can be saved, and if so, make a lot of concessions doing so. |
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| May-25-22 | | paavoh: <keypusher: Why do you care? The name of the opening is pretty much the least interesting thing about this game.> Or about almost any game. At least for me, remembering the move order helps more than a string like <King's Indian Defense: Saemisch. Bobotsov-Korchnoi-Petrosian Variation> |
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Jun-05-22
 | | Check It Out: This is one for the ages. |
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| Jul-05-22 | | ajile: 11..h6 might have been better to prevent Bg5. |
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| Apr-05-23 | | Rabbinvane: Legendary game. The absolute embodiment of Magnus' brutal chess. In decades, perhaps centuries, it still will be remembered. |
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| Apr-06-23 | | VerySeriousExpert: @TheaN
I disagree absolutely. After 10.Nbd2? cxb3! 11.Nxb3 Black's Bishop retreats to the 6th horizontal (not to the 3rd one), and White's initiative is temporary only. So 10.Nbd2? is a psychological (or a handicap) gambit system only, like the standard system of the Jerome gambit (4.Bxf7+?). Psychological gambit systems work well enough often, it is interesting. |
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| Apr-06-23 | | Shangri La: The queen sets the record |
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| Apr-08-23 | | VerySeriousExpert: Wikipedia says: "According to seven-piece endgame tablebases, this was a drawn endgame until, in this position, Nepomniachtchi played 130...Qe6?". Thus, the decisive mistake on the 130th move is a record for Carlsen-Nepo games. And what is a record of the earliest mistake for such their games? Here it is: https://jeromegambit.blogspot.com/2... . |
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| Nov-12-23 | | rcs784: With all the fuss over this game breaking the record for longest WCC game, I'm a bit surprised that hardly anyone ever brings up the *very* tiny technicality of this game: Chernin vs A Utnasunov, 2000, which was longer and played in one of FIDE's infamous knockout "World Championships." Perhaps, if you want to get really technical about it, it's more precise to say Carlsen and Nepo hold the record for the longest game played in a *classical/undisputed* WCC. |
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| Apr-12-24 | | SkySports: Still searching for a good pun for this game? I can't believe it has not already been GOTD... |
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| Apr-12-24 | | SkySports: It is also odd that this doesn't appear among Carlsen's notable games.
I know the games must be included in many collections to appear in that section, but this game is already included in 26 collections and (for example) Kramnik vs Carlsen, 2008 only in 15... |
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| Apr-14-24 | | mrknightly: Tempus non fugit. |
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Apr-14-24
 | | perfidious: As he turned over his king, Nepo was heard to exclaim: <Oh, fugit!> |
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Apr-15-24
| | Check It Out: "Deep Sixed" |
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| Jul-31-24 | | brimarern: Beautiful game! How does Carlsen squeeze "dead drawn" (air quotes) positions against world class opposition -and win? He's like Karpov on steroids! |
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Aug-29-24
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