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Wesley So vs Magnus Carlsen
Champions Chess Tour Finals (2024) (rapid), Oslo NOR, rd 3, Dec-17
Nimzo-Indian Defense: Classical Variation (E32)  ·  0-1

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Dec-20-24
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  An Englishman: Good Evening: A wild game, except when it becomes an insane game. Looks like some of my pub games after the third round of pints. So must have had a won position at multiple points.
Dec-20-24
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  Yuridmi: Right you are, Englishman! Playing through the moves I find Black behind in material and just dead lost. At move 26 Black is an exchange down, king exposed and White has an attack!

Yet White manages to fritter away his advantages, missing a knockout punch or even a draw. Instead he takes a Carlsen right-cross to the chops and it's over

Dec-25-24
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  HeMateMe: my God, does Carlsen see this 20 moves in advance with that exchange sacrifice? This is like playing through the best Fischer and Kasparov games, you are always going to be amazed.
Dec-25-24
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  Yuridmi: Going through this game a second time:
Carlsen plays a standard opening, but then opens up his Kingside, invites a Knight invasion, chucks his castling privileges. Then surrenders an exchange and heads into an endgame that engines say is lost

Just a few moves later his opponent somehow fumbles all his advantages, including refusing to push a deadly passed pawn

The insanities that we mere mortals cannot understand! I surrender! Just like So did

Dec-26-24  Olavi: No. This is the very reason the best players should not play rapid. If Carlsen is fine with showing his grandchildren how people toss away winning positions against him because they have no time to think, well then he is fine with that.

This game is not one of them, there always was a traditional compensation, control of the white squares. But not nearly enough of course.

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