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| Sep-15-13 | | technical draw: Boy did I mess up picking on Botvinnik! I probably wouldn't survive 3 rounds of boxing let alone 3 rounds of chess. |
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| Sep-15-13 | | Gregor Samsa Mendel: Botvinnik's self-discipline was the stuff of legend. One story about Botvinnik had to do with his dislike of smoking. With this in mind, he played a training match where his opponent smoked constantly and blew the smoke in Botvinnik's face. |
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| Sep-15-13 | | asiduodiego: <Kinghunt> I didn't see the press conference. If he really said that, he was clearly mistaken, but I really can't blame him for thinking he had some advantage in the game. He was entangled, yes, but perhaps he thought he might escape of the trouble with a pawn up (of course he couldn't, that was easy to see from home, with a computer evaluation telling you so) |
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| Sep-15-13 | | csmath: 13. a5?! Bc5!
14. Bc4?! Ng4!
[White played against spirit of a4-anti-Marshall. Why Magnus played this is anybody's guess because I am sure he is aware this is not a good move. perhaps he just wanted to secure his bishop on c4 in the next move. Aronian underlined weakness of the plan.]
15. Re2 Be6!
[brilliant play by Aronian. Bishop on c4 is gone and pawn on a5 is now without any reason there.] 18. ...Rab8! [start of excellent manouvre, black now controls the position despite his doubled pawns.] 29. ...Nxa5?!
[pawn grab, it was hard to see that black will be frozen and not able to disengage. The game is now closer to draw.] 31. Ne1!
[brilliant defence, now if black plays 31. ...Rxe4?, 32. Nd3! and black is forced to part with exchange with 32. ...Nb7 else if he plays 32. ...Rb5? then 33. c4! white get serious advantage.] The game is now equal.
34. ...Kd7
[black tries to engage king to free his entangled pieces but this is futile effort.] 35. Nd1?!
[white is with only minutes on the clock, it was easier to play:
35. Ke2 Nd4+, 36. Kf2! N4c6 with repetition but there is a hidden danger 36. Kf1? Nab3!! and white can chose either to return the piece with lousy ending or to keep the piece but black passers become unstoppable.] 44. ...Rd8?
[the cause of trouble for Aronian in the continuation. 44. ...Rc5 keeps balance and equal position with likely draw.] Now white controls the game.
50. ...Kd8?
[this king made a lot of futile moves but now this is decisive error.] 51. Nc4!
[black is forced to exchange knight and the b-pawn makes a killing!] 53. ...Rd7?!
[the last error and the game is effectively over. The only way to continue to fight would have been exchange sacrifice 53. ...Rxd3 but with the pawn structure as it is white would have probably won the resulting ending with simple plan exchanging rook and penetrating black position easily.] 56. Ne1!?
[nice touch. 56. Rxe6! threatens mate if b8-rook moves away from the last rank but Magnus takes clean and obvious route where there is no a shredd of chance for black.] |
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| Sep-15-13 | | csmath: 1. Aronian played brilliant opening completely outplaying Magnus' fishy idea [a5 pawn] 2. Aronian misevaluated position after 25 moves and went for pawn grab but getting frozen in the process. 3. Magnus played magnificent defence when needed seeing everything and protecting everything. 4. Aronian could not let it go and started playing without a plan and probably got tired allowing Magnus to get the upper hand. 5. Magnus finished Aronian with a machine precision.
Anand is in serious trouble, how do you beat this guy? |
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Sep-16-13
 | | chancho: The scary thing is that Carlsen can still get better! I said many years ago that Carlsen could be the very first player to reach 2900, and the kid is closing in towards that goal. |
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| Sep-16-13 | | Reisswolf: <Anand is in serious trouble, how do you beat this guy?> The answer is very simple. You <don't>. |
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| Sep-16-13 | | Sokrates: When I woke up this morning (in Copenhagen) I could hardly believe what my phone said: Carlsen won. When I left the game yester night at move 32, I thought Carlsen was getting a lesson by Aronian. But Aronian somehow lost his way in the following, and Carlsen once again evoked the memory of Lasker, perhaps the greatest defender in chess history. Until now. The cruel way Aronian's position was dismantled must have felt intimidating for him. An omen to think about for the world champion. |
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| Sep-16-13 | | savagerules: I imagine the only people left in the world thinking Anand can win is his own family and they're probably wavering.
As long as Carlsen doesn't get a stomach bug or bitten by a cobra during the match there will be a new world champion. |
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| Sep-16-13 | | Sokrates: Live rating today Monday 16 Sept.:
1. Carlsen 2870.0
2. Kramnik 2796.4 (a step up)
3. Aronian 2796.4 (a step down)
4. Grishuk 2785.8
5. Nakamura 2782.6 (moving up 4 places!)
6. Caruana 2778.8 (1 down)
7. Anand 2775 (1 down!)
A gap of 74 between Carlsen and his closest rivals. 95 ...! down to the world champ. |
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Sep-16-13
| | chancho: Carlsen's results have been phenomenal these past few years. The kid shows up and wins.
I still cannot get over how he rejected that draw offer from Aronian and then proceeded to clean his clock. This will be talked about for many years to come.
The stuff legends are made of. |
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| Sep-16-13 | | puppy: anand may be lost in world cup, but never lost his spirit and ofcourse WORDS such like some people told against him!! because he is good human than grand master! |
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| Sep-16-13 | | WiseWizard: Levon Erroneous looked really good here. |
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| Sep-16-13 | | PhilFeeley: I know black is finished but I wondered what happens after 70...Rd2? Alas, he does not escape, but it's a mate in 10. Who looks ahead 10 moves? No wonder I couldn't see it. |
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| Sep-16-13 | | Oxnard: ChessBase calls this a swindle but it really isn't. Kind of like how they described Carlsen's Dutch victory as a gift from Kamsky. |
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| Sep-16-13 | | kappertjes: <Oxnard: ChessBase calls this a swindle but it really isn't. Kind of like how they described Carlsen's Dutch victory as a gift from Kamsky.> That chessbase 'article' is about 1 paragraph and still they manage to get things wrong. It would really be better to write nothing at all. http://www.chessbase.com/Home/TabId... |
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| Sep-16-13 | | Sokrates: The person writing this on ChessBase must be an idiot, frankly spoken. "Outplayed" is a far too strong word for the position, disregarding Aronian's apparent overhand. And, as we know, Aronian made the draw offer. Yes, they shouldn't have written this. |
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Sep-16-13
 | | OhioChessFan: I agree with the previous comments. Carlsen was "significantly worse"? |
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Sep-16-13
| | chancho: From the chessbase article:
<Carlsen wins the Sinquefield cup and shows that he is still <easily> the number one player in the world, almost effortlessly obtaining a wonderful +3 score in this tournament.> |
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| Sep-16-13 | | JoergWalter: Carlsen's rope-a-dope (like Lasker) should be considered by Anand. Careful with low hanging fruits and pawns on a5. |
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| Sep-16-13 | | maxiumburn: White missed big gain on move 31. Black played
30...Rd4. Knight takes rook is an exchange up!
My computer rates it a 2 point advantage! Why didn't anyone comment on that?? |
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Sep-16-13
 | | keypusher: <Carlsen wins the Sinquefield cup and shows that he is still <easily> the number one player in the world, almost effortlessly obtaining a wonderful +3 score in this tournament.> Effortlessly? Looked to me like he worked his ass off! I got tired just playing through Kamsky-Carlsen and Carlsen-Aronian. |
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| Sep-16-13 | | whiteshark: <keypusher: <Effortlessly? Looked to me like he worked his ass off!>> Right you are! Additionally, I find it hard to describe Carlsen's way of play accurately enough so that you couldn't object. ;) |
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| Sep-16-13 | | RedShield: At what move did Aronian offer the draw? |
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| Sep-16-13 | | csmath: This was a very hard game on both, initially on Carlsen. He got into real big time trouble and almost lost on time. The defence he managed was really scrapped at the last moment but it was precise. This was not done at ease at all. It was a difficult game for both. However Magnus evaluated game properly in all the phases after playing bad opening. Aronian did not and this was the most important difference. When the game became a draw and Aronian could not find the plan, he still kept his belief too high. This is why he lost. He could have taken the draw but he did not know how to stop. Magnus knew the game is dead when he started repeating moves but Aronian did not. Once the rook was retreated to 44. ...Rd8? the game was not a draw any more. This is what Magnus knew, you could have seen his attitude live when he got worked up again.
Then Aronian noticed he was not in control any more and offered the draw. Magnus like Fischer before him does not take draws in better positions. It is interesting to note how easily Aronian fell apart after that. This is not a world champion substance (I mean Aronian). |
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