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Fabiano Caruana vs Dommaraju Gukesh
Norway Chess (2025), Stavanger NOR, rd 10, Jun-06
Italian Game: Two Knights Defense. Modern Bishop's Opening (C55)  ·  1-0

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Jun-06-25  Atking: Caruana's opening preparation was clever 9.Qd2 11.Ne2 12.Ng3 13.c3 15.Qe2 And again the young World champion was in a difficult position right after move 15! However if few minutes left Gukesh had found 48...QxB!! 49.QxR Qxf4+ 50.Ng3 (50.g3 QxN! =) 50...h5 51.Qg8+ Kc7 52.Qh7+ Kb6 53.Qxh5 Qa4 54.Qg6+ Kc7 55.Qg7+ Qd7 one would have spoke of "miracle".
Jun-07-25  areknames: Uh, another fascinating game well worth of further study.
Jun-07-25  Olavi: Reading verbal reports just after this game had finished I was lead to believe that Gukesh missed something very difficult - but of course 48...Qxc7 is the obvious move. Caruana's lapses are less obvious...
Jun-07-25
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  keypusher: Some of the comments I've seen about this game (not on this page, and mostly not on this website) are a little misleading in their total focus on Gukesh's blunder on move 48. Caruana had a big advantage most of the way and a winning advantage from about move 34 on. It was his own non-obvious blunder, 47.f4, that gave Gukesh his chance to escape defeat.

I don't agree that 48....Qxc7 is completely obvious because it requires Black to see that he can draw the ending a piece down. On the other hand you'd expect the likes of Gukesh to see that queening the pawn loses...I don't know what his clock situation was.

An engine, unsurprisingly, thinks White's opening is harmless. It doesn't seen any advantage for White until 15....d4 and not much of one until 17....Qe7. If I saw a junior playing this way as White in a weekend tournament I'd probably tell him not to play a3 and h3 so early.

Jun-07-25  areknames: <kp> yes, the very early a3 and h3 struck me as well, it of course goes against everything that the rest of us woodpushers have always been taught.
Jun-07-25  Olavi: <keypusher>
<I don't agree that 48....Qxc7 is completely obvious because it requires Black to see that he can draw the ending a piece down.>

No, it does not require that. It requires seeing that it's absolutely the only try.

Jun-07-25
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  keypusher: <Olavi> Yes, I guess you are right.
Jun-08-25  Atking: <Olavi> the point is not the move by itself. Black was under pressure most of the game.. on the verge to lost few moves before and then imagine the "miracle" occure. Just think about the mind state of Caruana if that game had ended draw. Gukesh would have won the armagedon. However I have no doubt that Carlsen would have used 100% of his chess talent to win his own game. Else...
Jun-08-25  Olavi: <Atking> I wrote that 'I was lead to believe that Gukesh missed something very difficult'. It is true that if you have been balancing on the edge for quite some time you are more likely to miss the simplest of things. Well, the average player is, including top grandmasters.

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