The Earth still turns on it's axis, Carlsen is still the World Champion, and he still has the highest rating.

Oh, and he won Tata Steel a few weeks ago.

It's a King's Indian where Black has a kingside pawn majority, White's development is backward, he can't castle safely on either side of the board, and his knight is blocking his c-pawn. As someone who used to play the Pirc, I'd be thrilled to get this position.

This isn't that close, but I just love the final combination.

How much money have you guaranteed on this, and at what odds?

<Never forget this, Glenn. In fact, you seem to have a poor memory, so I will make sure to remind you as often as I care to respond to your repetitive trolling.>

You'll remind him of your opinion at every opportunity, and see nothing trolling about that. Never mind, I withdraw the first question, as the answer now seems obvious. >

1) I have a bet with Glenny, that W.So. will never become world champion -- period. The bet is: if W.So. does become world champion, I will cease making posts on chessgames.com for the duration of his reign.

2) Selective reading again, as per usual. I never stated I will remind him at every opportunity. I stated that I will remind him at every moment I care to respond to his trolling. Huge difference. Firstly, he has to be trolling, and specifically about Carlsen. Not all his posts are troll posts (although, most are). Second, to keep up with this putz' trolling is a full time job in itself. So I'll remind him (as I clearly stated already) whenever I care to respond to his troll.

Thank you for proving my point again, that you lack basic English comprehension, logical reasoning and common sense.

I'll remind you of this whenever I care to respond to your trolling as well.

Here's the first reminder:

<<Overgod:> I will make sure to remind you as often as I care to respond to your repetitive trolling.>

<Petrosianic> interpretation:

<<Petrosianic:> You'll remind him of your opinion at every opportunity, and see nothing trolling about that.>

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No question is stupid. But after 46.Nf3 Black easily gets out of the fork with 46...Rg4+. Then White's king has 3 moves:

(1) 47.Kf1. Now 47...Bc5 and White has to worry about Black's h-pawn queening and must play 48.Nh2 to stop it. A possible continuation would be 48...Rg2 49.Rxh3 (forced) Rxf2+ 50.Ke1 g5. Now Black has 2 connected passed pawns ready to march down the board and White's knight is somewhat out of play since 51.Nf3 is met by 51...g5.

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I would think that Black is a little bit better. Stockfish 6 evaluates the position at [-0.43], d=38.

(2). 47.Kh1. Now after 47...Bxf2 48.Rxd6 g5 Black has 3 connected passed pawns.

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But White's pieces are more active than in line (1) above and Black's king is prevented from advancing and supporting the passed pawns so I don't know who stands better, if either player does. Stockfish 6 evaluates the position at [0.00], d=38 since Black has a draw by repetition after 49.Bd3 Rg3 50.Ne5 g4 51.Bxf5 Rg1+ 52.Kh2 Rg2+ 53.Kh1 Rg1+ etc.

(3). 47.Kh2. Probably the most active since White's king threatens to capture Black's advanced h-pawn. After 47...Bxf2 48.Rxd6 g5 Stockfish also evaluates the position at [0.00], d=38 although Black does not have the draw by repetition after 48.Nd2 g5 49.Kxh3 Rg1 50.Kh2 g4 51.Nc4 f4 52.Rd2 Bc5 53.Rg2 Rxg2+ 54.Kxg2

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Black could defend his Pa5 by 54...Bb4 but after 55.Bd7 Black must advance 55...g3 and after 56.Kf3 White has a bind on the light squares which Black can never break so a draw is the likely outcome. Stockfish instead suggests 54...Kg6 (active defense is usually better than passive defense, even at the cost of a pawn) and after 55.Nxa5 f3+ (Black's pawns on light squares work much better with Black's DSB) 56.Kg3 Kg5 57.Bd7 Bb4 58.Bxg4 (if the knight moves, say 58.Nc4, then 58...Bd1+ and the Black pawns will advance. Black will likely win; Stockfish evaluates the position at [-11.78], d=42) 58...Bxa5 59.Kxf3 and this is clearly a draw since either side can give up its bishop for the opponent's pawn.

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Agree. How refreshing to have an active World Champion who fights to win as Black from Move 1. It wasn't too long ago when we worried about professional chess dying a short draw death. Exhibit A = 21st Linares (2004)

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49... Rf4! offering the exchange of rooks seems to hold in all lines. White can accept this exchange with either 50. Rxf4 or 50. Bxc6, or decline with 50. Rxh3 or 50. Rg3+ (followed by 51. Rxg6) - but in either case black appears to have enough counterplay.

Whether Carlsen was playing for a win at this point and overpressed, or "simply" wasn't able to find the objectively best black defence, is something only the World Champion can shed light on. He spent almost half of his 27 minutes on the fatal mistake 49. Kf6, so lack of time is no explanation.

Stockfish at analysis.sesse.net gives +0.17 for white at 54 plies (66 selective) after 49... Rf4, and it's quite incredible how rich some of the possible lines are. An example (certainly not forced):

50. Rxh3 Rxf2 51. Nc4 f4 52. Nxa5 f3 53. Kg1 Bd4 54. Nc6 Bc5 55. Kh1 Kf4 56. Rh2

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56... Rxh2+ 57. Kxh2 d5 58. a5 g5 59. a6 g4 60. a7

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-- but deserving win for Naiditsch. He really played resourcefully and avoided a lot of the pitfalls>