| Carlsen - Karjakin World Championship Match (2016) |
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Having earned and subsequently defended the World Championship title in his 2013 and 2014 matches against Viswanathan Anand, Magnus Carlsen was now confronted with defending his title against his childhood rival, Sergey Karjakin. Karjakin earned the right to challenge the title by winning the World Championship Candidates (2016) by a full point. This was the second title match to feature a champion and challenger who were under age thirty, after Kramnik - Leko Classical World Championship Match (2004). Although the match was predicted by many to be a blowout victory for the Norwegian wunderkind, the tremendous defensive prowess of Karjakin transformed the contest into a grueling war of attrition that would test the mental fitness of both great modern masters. While the best of 12 match started off rather slowly, with seven consecutive draws, Karjakin surprised many by winning the eighth game with the Black pieces, against Carlsen's rather uninspired approach to the Colle System. The reigning world champion refused to participate in the mandatory postgame news conference and caused a major controversy with his absence. However, in the tenth game, the "Mozart of Chess" returned with a vengeance, mercilessly pressing an advantage from the White side of the Ruy Lopez and levelling the score at one win apiece. When the last two Classical games resulted in draws, the match entered the tiebreak phase. The tiebreaks were conducted in the Rapid 25+10 time format, with draws in games 13 and 14 and an unexpectedly easy set of back-to-back victories for Carlsen in the fifteenth and sixteenth games. As a result the far higher rated world champion retained his crown, but the tiebreak methodology stirred up significant controversy in the world of chess. Former world champion Anatoly Karpov, as well as American grandmaster Yasser Seirawan, objected to the Rapid tiebreak, pointing out that the World Rapid Championship was the venue where that time control was rightly to be contested. However, while the world champion agreed that the tiebreak format was less than ideal, Karjakin insisted that he was pleased with the tiebreak format and, playing the part of a genuine gentleman and sportsman, insisted that he failed to utilize his preparation and performed well below his own ability during the tiebreaking phase of the match. Elo Classical Rapid
Carlsen 2853 ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 0 ½ 1 ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 1 9
Karjakin 2772 ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ ½ 1 ½ 0 ½ ½ ½ ½ 0 0 7
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| Nov-16-16 | | WorstPlayerEver: <JB>
I don't play Spanish, in fact I had no clue what Karjakin was doing. Though I think he has to come up with something better than this prep. Carlsen plays Nc4 and White has to fight for a draw.. can't go on like this lol |
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| Nov-16-16 | | Remo1000: Karjakin will win this match. Carlsen is too much under pressure. |
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| Nov-16-16 | | whiteshark: Games 1-4: The Story So Far
chess24 recap https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nM... in less than 4 minutes |
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| Nov-16-16 | | BUNA: <keypusher:
That's an overstatement. Try the position after 18....Qc6 yourself against someone of about your own strength and see how easy it is to win.>Sorry, dear keypusher, but I can't see serious problems after 18....Qc6. 19.Bxc4 is the culprit. During the press conference Karjakin basically couldn't explain why he took on c4.
His words were: "But I was also unhappy with this position [after the alternative 19. Bc1]. I mean maybe it could have been better than in the game but I was very upset already. O.K. maybe I can equalize here." Unbelieveable. |
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| Nov-16-16 | | not not: for all the famous russian shool of chess and its home cooking opening novelties, there is nothing so far to be seen why is his opening game so weak? |
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| Nov-16-16 | | not not: his = Karjakin i meant |
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| Nov-16-16 | | BOSTER: <paulalbert: my 5 th game pick>.
Only naive players think that score is equal.
Really the drawish season is over.
And no doubt that MC understand K's style more clearly and K's defense will fall like a ripe apple. |
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| Nov-16-16 | | amuralid: <not not: for all the famous russian shool of chess and its home cooking opening novelties, there is nothing so far to be seen
why is his opening game so weak?>
This. I know Karjakin cannot be as prepared as Anand who is 20 years older! But I still do not get why he would choose to play a classical Ruy Lopez. Is Karjakin just trying to increase the tension in the match and hoping Carlsen buckles under pressure? |
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| Nov-16-16 | | LlanelliCC: amateur05 "Maybe (Karjakin) would defend his title well." - if he became world champ. Maybe he would. But what a future! The champ has to first get a bad position and then spend an heroic 3 hours defending it. Wow! Can't wait. Expect very long games with Giri where both sides are trying desperately to hold onto the draw. |
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 | | HeMateMe: $600 to sit in the stands and view the players behind a tinted glass screen? Not for me. Did anyone here go to see Kasparov v. Anand at the WTC? Was there a stage, with an audience or was it a glass screen, as at Fulton? The two venues are just a 15 minute walk away from each other. |
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| Nov-16-16 | | not not: where are all the russians gms helping Karjakin gone, or russia (state) founded team of helpers to find opening traps? is Putin so skint cos of sanctions? |
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| Nov-16-16 | | Appaz: Regarding the Kings Gambit I mentioned earlier: Stockfish with white just crushed Houdini in a Kings Gambit, so it can't be totally useless. Both engines agreed that black was better after the opening though. Plus, you can't really compare how humans and engines plays this opening. Engines tend to play too "sensible" in such positions, with less aggressive attacking moves. There were little fireworks in this game. |
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| Nov-16-16 | | john barleycorn: <WorstPlayerEver: ... Though I think he has to come up with something better than this prep. ...> He will I am sure of this. Right now, as part of Karjakin's psychological warfare it is just showing to Carlsen "Lookie here, you can't beat me when you have an advantage".
In games 5-8 we shall see the continuation "Look you can't even get an advantage anymore". Really, I think Carlsen after the first 4 games has more ego-problems than Karjakin. If Karjakin struggles, well "everyone" thought it will happen. Karjakin has nothing to lose, Carlsen has. Carlsen may reconsider his match strategy. No need for Karjakin to do so. That is the way I see it. |
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| Nov-16-16 | | WorstPlayerEver: <JB>
I don't know. Seems a risky strategie. Although it must frustrate Carlsen. So I guess Karjakin plays on Carlsen's temper. |
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| Nov-16-16 | | Appaz: <<not not: where are all the russians gms helping Karjakin gone, or russia (state) founded team of helpers to find opening traps?> Deep opening preparations doesn't work when your opponent tend to deviate from the mainlines early in the game and just thrives in slightly inferior lines. But this shouldn't comes as a surprise to them, this is Carlsen in a nutshell. Team Karjakin must come up with a opening <strategy> that works, not just variations. Karjakin underestimating the strength of Qc6 (which Svidler spotted at once) and going for the weird Bxc4 could indicate that he is not in his best form. Either that, or he still has some nerves. On the bright side, Carlsen doesn't seem to be as sharp in his choice of critical variations as he usually is. |
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| Nov-16-16 | | john barleycorn: <WorstPlayerEver: <JB> I don't know. Seems a risky strategie. ...> Sure, no guts no glory. :-)
However, all is my fabrication when trying to make sense out of what we have seen so far. |
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| | HeMateMe: team Magnus does not want to go into Rapids games to decide the title. I think we'll see a queen pawn or English opening in game five. |
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| Nov-16-16 | | not not: Appaz, how can u deviate in Ruy, though, which is opening "analyzed to check-mate"? could Carslen "deviate" if it was Fischer or Kasparov playing white? it is hard to imagine Kasparov being out of book by move 10, and inferior by move 18 |
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| Nov-16-16 | | Eyal: So far, 1.e4 has been a total failure against Carlsen in WC matches, both for Anand in his first match and for Karjakin here. 1.d4, on the other hand, worked quite well for Anand in game 9 of the first match and throughout the second in terms of the positions he got out of the opening stage (of course, Carlsen might outplay you later regardless). |
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| | HeMateMe: <https://s1.2mdn.net/6071298/300x250...> advert for the match: |
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| Nov-16-16 | | Appaz: <not not: Appaz, how can u deviate in Ruy, though, which is opening "analyzed to check-mate"?> But you have to remember that massive amount of information too. Carlsen can maybe not come up with any move in the early opening that Karjakin hasn't seen before (like 10.Re2 in the third game, were Karjakin probably was not "out of book", but had to dig deep down into his own memories), but it still puts enormous pressure on him when he knows Carlsen has studied all the nuances of the position. The result could be weird moves like Bxc4 in the last game. I'm not sure Kasparov was a better defender than Karjakin is. In preparations and attack yes, but not in a long defense. Carlsen would probably try the exact same thing against Fischer and Kasparov if he were to play them at their best, but both may have come up with better choices in the opening and early middlegame than what Karjakin has come up with so far. |
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| Nov-16-16 | | peristilo: Everybody is praising Karjakin for his fantastic defensive skills and I have to agree he's great. But the real thing is that he's not doing well and he barely survived the last games. The results are deceitful. Which one is supposed to crack? The battering ram or the door? |
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| Nov-16-16 | | Appaz: <Eyal: So far, 1.e4 has been a total failure against Carlsen in WC matches, both for Anand in his first match and for Karjakin here. 1.d4, on the other hand, worked quite well for Anand in game 9 of the first match and throughout the second in terms of the positions he got out of the opening stage (of course, Carlsen might outplay you later regardless).> Karjakin plays almost always 1.e4 it seems, so switching to d4 or c4 may be necessary if the tendency in the games continue. But switching to openings you have little experience with as white against a player who plays <anything> with either color is very risky and a little desperate. |
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| Nov-16-16 | | BOSTER: < JB: Karjakin has nothing to lose >.
Another opinion.
If K doesn't succeed here, it'll be not easy to win another Candidates.
It is not possible to go twice into the same water. |
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 | | Sally Simpson: Hi paulalbert,
I think you have chosen your game very well, I am sure you will get your money's worth, Carlsen will be simply itching to put a point on the board before Karjakin's double header with the White pieces. It's turning out to be a fascinating match, Karjakin holding on by finger nails testing Carlsen's imagination to the limit. Whilst here, thank you for everything you have contributed to chess and I'm with you, I too think Rohde vs B Kogan, 1986 is a great game. (no 5. in 'Winning the Won Game.' I spent days on it, I have notes all over it.) Your tale in the introduction about Anna Hahn winning two brilliancy prizes reminded of the time I was judging 'Best Game' at an Edinburgh Congress. One player who had won a 'Best Game Prize' a week earlier at Blackpool submitted the very same game. Luckily enough I did not rate it. Not enough sacs. I love jokes like that. I once managed to get a dog (called Ralph Barker) on the Scottish Grading List. http://www.chessedinburgh.co.uk/cha... Thanks again and I really do hope you enjoy your day. PS:
You also say in the introduction that Morphy at the Opera help inspire you at Chess. You sound like a lad who enjoys a good laugh. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7a...
And I'm not messing about, I had no idea how to stop the thing recording. Geoff |
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