gwnn Posted November 22, 2013 Report Share Posted November 22, 2013 Totally not off-topic: great dress by Tania! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gwnn Posted November 22, 2013 Report Share Posted November 22, 2013 Nice to see Carlsen play on, but Trent is a bit silly (saying that if Carlsen overpresses today he might be shattered and who knows?). If worst comes to worst he can always play for a draw in game 12 and anyway he's not risking that much today and anyway there's still game 11! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trinidad Posted November 22, 2013 Report Share Posted November 22, 2013 Nice to see Carlsen play on, but Trent is a bit silly (saying that if Carlsen overpresses today he might be shattered and who knows?). If worst comes to worst he can always play for a draw in game 12 and anyway he's not risking that much today and anyway there's still game 11!I don't agree. I don't want to exaggerate either, but if you have been in a position where you can force a draw and win the world championship, decide to play on for a win and then lose because you overlooked something you are not making it easier to play game 11 and 12. Rik Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gwnn Posted November 22, 2013 Report Share Posted November 22, 2013 I think you're underestimating Carlsen's ability to play for a draw if he feels like playing for a draw, whether or not he lost twice in a row before, whether or not he missed some draws before. But we'll never know now since Carlsen is the new world champion! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
broze Posted November 23, 2013 Report Share Posted November 23, 2013 Congrats to Magnus! What a massive moment for chess. It's been an honour to watch his rise to ascendancy. Having said that I am a huge fan of Anand and it was a shame to perhaps not see him at his best this past week. 0 chance of him retiring before '14 Candidates imo. Care to explain your thoughts about Giri gwnn? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JLOGIC Posted November 23, 2013 Report Share Posted November 23, 2013 Giri is a known dbag. I think he cussed at hou when she beat him, has been very ungracious in pressers when losing to worse players, and has had some twitter stuff. @gwnn: I dunno, I agree Caruana's wins never seem that impressive, that's what makes me think he's really good, he just seems to win a lot doing natural/strong things in dull positions, kind of like a worse Carlsen. Of course that doesn't bode well for him beating Carlsen in a match ever, but he could def get better I assume. To me the non flashy guys are more impressive. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mike777 Posted November 23, 2013 Report Share Posted November 23, 2013 Nakamura, Hikaru top ranked usa player.... safe to say no one..no one in usa knows Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Antrax Posted November 23, 2013 Report Share Posted November 23, 2013 The headline in the biggest newspaper here: "Chess world champion: a 23 year old Norwegian fashion model". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gwnn Posted November 23, 2013 Report Share Posted November 23, 2013 Congrats to Magnus! What a massive moment for chess. It's been an honour to watch his rise to ascendancy. Having said that I am a huge fan of Anand and it was a shame to perhaps not see him at his best this past week. 0 chance of him retiring before '14 Candidates imo. Care to explain your thoughts about Giri gwnn?He constantly makes frustrated comments about players that beat him. One example was naming Aronian a coffee house player. And I just remembered that in his training series on Chessvibes he annotated a rather poor game with blunders from both sides from the National Championships of the Netherlands (won by him convincingly) by two other contenders with the intro something like "some strange things were happening on the table next to me" and at the end something like "this was the moment where I realised I really need to win the championship." 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EricK Posted November 23, 2013 Report Share Posted November 23, 2013 I thought game 6 - the second of Carlsen's wins - was truly special, and showed just what he brings to the game which no-one else seems to have at the moment. He had his plan with Kf7, followed perhaps by Re7 and Re5 with a nice edge - the sort of position he routinely wins even if it is theoretically drawn. But he completely misses Anand's h5 idea. No doubt moments after seeing h5 he would have realised a. it ought to lead to a draw and b. he could have stopped it by playing h5 himself, and then proceeded with his plan. it would be very easy at that point to become a little disheartened and acquiesce to a draw, but he buckled down and looked for a way - any way - to try to still win. And he came up with an idea involving sacrificing 3 pawns leaving Anand with 2 connected passed pawns half way up the board against 1 further advanced passed pawn of his own. And what's more, it's not as if this idea was a forced win - Anand could still have drawn if he found the right plan - meanwhile if Carlsen's calculations contained a miscalculation of some sort, it is possible, from Carlsen's point of view, that by going for this variation he might be throwing the game away. I'm not sure how many other GMs would have even seen this idea, let alone risked it when they were 1-0 up in the match. But Carlsen went for it, and his calculations were correct, and Anand didn't see the danger until it was too late. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gwnn Posted September 3, 2014 Report Share Posted September 3, 2014 I was never impressed by Caruana. He has obviously a very big rating but his wins are not special.LOL Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhantomSac Posted September 3, 2014 Report Share Posted September 3, 2014 haha nice bump Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kuhchung Posted September 3, 2014 Report Share Posted September 3, 2014 haha, watching the sinquefield? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
broze Posted September 3, 2014 Report Share Posted September 3, 2014 7-0! Looking forward to the big one tomorrow. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhantomSac Posted September 3, 2014 Report Share Posted September 3, 2014 7 for 7...wow Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhantomSac Posted September 4, 2014 Report Share Posted September 4, 2014 Magnus looking for a fight, playing an accelerated dragon vs Caruana. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jjbrr Posted November 9, 2014 Report Share Posted November 9, 2014 bump 14. Ra3 is pretty baller Anand's blunder is rather disappointing Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jjbrr Posted November 11, 2014 Report Share Posted November 11, 2014 MAGNUS WHY ARENT YOU MOVING Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zasanya Posted November 11, 2014 Author Report Share Posted November 11, 2014 32 dxe5 .Will Magnus lose on time? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
broze Posted November 11, 2014 Report Share Posted November 11, 2014 Can't understand why Magnus took so long to play 17..Ndf6. Still, great game and great prep from Vishy - such a class act. Game on! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zasanya Posted November 12, 2014 Author Report Share Posted November 12, 2014 27 b3 . The sort of position Magnus likes. Will he be able to convert it into a win? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jjbrr Posted November 12, 2014 Report Share Posted November 12, 2014 MAGNUS WHY ARENT YOU MOVING Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jjbrr Posted November 12, 2014 Report Share Posted November 12, 2014 ok hes going to make time control. intense game Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gwnn Posted November 12, 2014 Report Share Posted November 12, 2014 draw :( at some point it looked like he was gradually getting the upper hand but he mad the wrong exchanges perhaps? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zasanya Posted November 15, 2014 Author Report Share Posted November 15, 2014 22..... Kb7. White looks better. Can Anand hold this position? 23 Rg4 What is the idea? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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