Magnus Carlsen Wins Longest World Chess Championship Game of All Time (chess.com) 23
The first victory of the 2021 FIDE World Championship happened in game 6 after GM Magnus Carlsen defeated GM Ian Nepomniachtchi in a record 136 moves. Chess.com reports: Carlsen's victory came after the world champion exchanged a queen for two rooks, provoking a long, tense endgame -- a strategy that eventually proved effective. With both players working on increment after move 80, Magnus converted the position into a rook, knight, and two pawns for a queen, which ended up enough to take the match lead. It was the first decisive game in the classical rounds of a world championship in over five years.
Game still even (Score:2)
The game was still even until move 118. Back and forth, at times black had an advantage, at times white had an advantage. Magnus just managed to bring more energy to it and didn't get tired before his opponent.
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It wasn't an unexpected exchange, Nepomniatchi saw it as a possibility.
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Depends on how you define advantage. Looks to me like Nepomniachtchi may have telegraphed draw mentality @20 and lost the advantage @25 when his threat of Magnus' queen turned into an unexpected exchange of Nepomniachtchi's two rooks for Magnus' queen.
That would not be unexpected at all - in general, two rooks are considered better than one queen. So going down that route in order to simplify involves misevaluating the position later down the lines.
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The game was still even until move 118. Back and forth, at times black had an advantage, at times white had an advantage. Magnus just managed to bring more energy to it and didn't get tired before his opponent.
While it was technically even for computers, it was not even for players. For most of those moves (after move 40) white was pressing, and the only one with chances. Sure, a computer would hold a draw even later than move 118 (there was a construct at move 130, with Qc2 or Qb1) - but the game in general was a tale of white gradually and slowly pressing forward.
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Nepo would have been able to hold, if he'd had dinner. Magnus just had more endurance.
Carlsen! (Score:1)
This game was excellent. We all got to witness the best endgame player ever in action.
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It was just a game where they both got tired, and the one with the most endurance won.
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If it's down a grinding endgame, no one stands a chance if it's Magnus on the other side of the table. He can grind like no other.
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Now we'll see if Nepomniatchi can strike back, bringing the game to the area of his strength.
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In this game he did exactly that; created an equal middlegame position that was wildly chaotic and complicated. That's his strongest area.
But he's still 75 points lower rated. In his strongest area, he's about equal to Carlsen.
He needs Carlsen to make a mistake to win. It is simple as that. He has to increase the chaos, increase the complications, and risk losing again. It is possible he could even the score; they're about equal in those positions. But as here, if it results in an unbalanced endgame, that's
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He needs Carlsen to make a mistake to win.
Carlsen made some pretty big mistakes.
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You heard that, but you didn't pay enough attention, or don't understand chess well enough to understand what happened.
He missed an earlier forced win. That was his big mistake.
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Nepomniatchi
You keep calling him that. That's not his name, not even in an alternative transliteration.
Ian Nepomniachtchi [wikipedia.org]
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ok
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That's nonsense, it was the next game after a rest day in a relatively short match.
It was an unbalanced position, and Carlsen is the best endgame player ever. Mostly because he never stops trying to win, he hates accepting a draw, if there is something more to try, to make his oponnent solve, he'll try it, make them defend every threat and show they're not going to miss anything. It's easier to say it is equal in theory than it is to defend each threat and rotate to the next threat correctly every time.
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Mostly because he never stops trying to win, he hates accepting a draw, if there is something more to try, to make his oponnent solve, he'll try it
Who doesn't do that?
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Dipfuck, it's a comparative comment.
So nobody else does that, in the context of talking about Carlsen doing it.
And until Carsen got to the top of the chess world, nobody was trying. It was viewed as a useless thing that tires you out and reduces your performance in the next game. The only reason others try it now, is because Carlsen pulls so many rabbits out of the hat. He wins so many games from "drawn" endgame positions, that others have to do it, too.
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Mostly because he never stops trying to win, he hates accepting a draw, if there is something more to try, to make his oponnent solve, he'll try it
Who doesn't do that?
Most other top players. A normal attitude is "OK, we've played so far, most pieces are off and I think the position is still even. Th other player is also a grandmaster. OK, it's a draw.". Magnus' attitude is more of "OK, the position is even and a draw - but you still have to prove that you can hold it against me".
Analysis of the game (Score:3)
Analysis of the game
https://youtu.be/q9MM4mSTHz0 [youtu.be]
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Analysis of the game
https://youtu.be/q9MM4mSTHz0 [youtu.be]
The agadamator analysis, for those needing to see the Evans gambit option : https://www.youtube.com/watch?... [youtube.com]
Well, that confirms it... (Score:2)
...clearly he's a man who knows how the knight moves.
M. Sultry Sultan Khan (Score:2)
I'm Tired [youtube.com]