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Jun-10-17
 | | keypusher: This was a great game, though I wish it had ended differently. It's funny, it combined a sacrifice I don't ever remember seeing before -- 12.Rxa3 -- with "the oldest trick in the book" -- 17.Bxh7+ and 18.Ng5+. They both played very, very well until Carlsen's (understandable) error at move 31. Hope he gets some inspiration/motivation from this defeat. And congrats to Aronian, what a performance! |
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| Jun-10-17 | | Ulhumbrus: Aronian sacrifices first a pawn and then the exchange in return for confining and threatening to trap Black's queen. Carlsen's attempt to free his queen does not succeed and Aronian gains a winning but difficult attack, one which he prosecutes successfully by finding all of the necessary difficult attacking moves. This win seems worthy of a brilliancy prize. Considering the trouble that acceptance of the pawn sacrifice by 11...Bxa3 leads to, 11...Bd6 may be better. |
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| Jun-10-17 | | devere: It looks to me as though Levon sprang a prepared line on Magnus, and then it all came down to move 31:
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Magnus played the natural looking 31...e5, which loses, instead of 31...Rf8 which according to Stockfish is completely equal. And I am certain I would have made the same losing move as World Champion Carlsen. |
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| Jun-10-17 | | fisayo123: <devere> There was nothing prepared about the line considering Aronian's time use in the opening. He might or might not have been familiar with the conceptual idea but the moves were OTB inspiration. It's just a brilliant game from Levon. One of the best I've ever seen anyone play against Carlsen actually. |
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| Jun-10-17 | | fisayo123: Game of the Year candidate. Aronian is getting back some of the confidence that enabled him 5-6 years ago to pull stuff of like this. |
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Jun-10-17
 | | tamar: Levon showed in the postgame that the usual defense to the Greek Sacrifice, 18...Kg6 fails to 19 Qg4 f5 20 Qg3 Kf6 21 d5!! 
click for larger viewif 21...exd5 22 Qd6+ Kxg5 23 e4+! leads to mate |
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Jun-10-17
| | keypusher: <devere> I'd love to see a postmortem, but I wonder if what MC missed at move 31 was Aronian's 33.Qe7!! instead of 33.Rg3 Rg8 and Black is hanging on. (I'm sure Carlsen was more than ready to have his QB get an open diagonal, too.) Qe7 is the kind of move a computer sees instantly, but we shouldn't be any less impressed when a human finds it. <fisayo123 Game of the Year candidate.> Absolutely. |
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| Jun-10-17 | | SirRuthless: Nice preparation. Carlsen plays unlike previous editions of himself:recklessly aggressive and unsure of his plans while in contrast Aronian seems to be having an Indian summer. |
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| Jun-10-17 | | fisayo123: <SirRuthless> It wasn't preparation though according to the man himself. I know everything at the top level these days is assumed to be prepared but Aronian thought for 16 minutes before playing 11. a3 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UrT... |
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| Jun-10-17 | | devere: <fisayo123: <devere> There was nothing prepared about the line considering Aronian's time use in the opening.> Yes, I see now that Aronian spent 16m25s on 11.a3 and then 6m25 more on 12.Rxa3. Quite a nice chess conception, even though it wouldn't have won with perfect defense. It is also sound, and doesn't lose. |
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Jun-10-17
 | | Check It Out: What a game. It surprised me when Magnus took the a3 pawn, it seemed risky; but then, I was again surprised when Aronian sacked the exchange. A terrific effort on both sides. |
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| Jun-10-17 | | savagerules: G.O.A.T. ? He's even getting pummeled in Norway, though is this particular game it was more because of brilliant play by Aronian rather than bad play by Carlsen. |
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| Jun-10-17 | | SirRuthless: <fisayo123> Aronian is notoriously coy(read:deceptive) about his prep.
I don;t believe he invented such a deep trap over the board but I could be wrong and maybe he is telling the truth. He also tends to play time games in the opening sometimes moving fast to show strength and moving slow to show weakness when the opposite is true. I won't call him a liar but it is not beyond him to play coy in the press conference when in fact this is an invention from his lab. |
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| Jun-10-17 | | miroo: Ìîëîä÷àãà Àðîíÿí! |
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| Jun-10-17 | | thegoodanarchist: < savagerules: G.O.A.T. ? He's even getting pummeled> One loss, to a top-10 GM, hardly constitutes a pummeling. |
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| Jun-10-17 | | Marmot PFL: Svidler's analysis
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5XB... |
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| Jun-10-17 | | morfishine: <fisayo123> Certainly a great candidate ***** |
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Jun-10-17
 | | chancho: Could these two be destined to face each other for the world title in 2018? I hope so! |
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Jun-10-17
 | | Richard Taylor: Carlsen obliterated...the beginning of the end? A question mark hovers over this "giant" of world chess... Mind you modern chess has deteriorated with no draw offers, shoot outs at the end of matches: and chess players acting as models and dancing like apes, drug tests...Bring back the great days of Lasker, Rubinstein, Botvinnik, Tal, Smyslov, Karpov Kasparov, Anand and other noble players (in the good old days when chess was chess not a circus for the corporates and the hoiloloi who mostly don't know the moves of the game... |
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| Jun-10-17 | | beenthere240: Of course, Carlsen should now retire. Or laugh it off. |
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| Jun-10-17 | | Fanques Fair: Absolute masterpiece from Aronian !!! As someone put it, the strangest sacrifice folowed by the oldest !!!
Incredible game and a beautiful prove that chess brilliance must come not from preperation, but from inspiration !!! |
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| Jun-10-17 | | Toribio3: Good job by Aronian! I hope this masterpiece is not isolated. If Aronian can maintain this kind of bravado attacking style, he can be the next world champion! |
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Jun-10-17
 | | HeMateMe: terrific game. I wonder how deep Aronian's home prep was, in this? |
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| Jun-10-17 | | SirRuthless: On second viewing I have reached the conclusion that there is no way 11.a3 wasn't home prep. No way.
Aronian was probably sitting on that for years wainting to use it and Carlsen, needing to make a move to get back in the tournament got greedy and grabbed the pawn and the exchange thinking he would get his Q out with a timely a pawn push not realizing that Aronian had seen all this on his analysis board and that he would never have the time to safely extract his Q until his position was nearly unplayable. Ingenious preparation from Aronian and good job convincing everyone he found it over the board with his George Washington and the cherry tree routine. Cute. |
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| Jun-10-17 | | kwid: <HeMateMe:>< terrific game.> No; it was a poorly played game from Carlson. His last error was 31...e5??
instead Rf8 would easily hold a draw. |
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