Position after 21…Bf6
GM Aronian (2739) – GM Carlsen (2733) [E17]
06.03.2008 / Linares – Round 13
1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nf3 b6 4.g3 Bb7 5.Bg2 Be7 6.Nc3 0–0 7.Qc2 c5 8.d5 exd5 9.cxd5 Bxd5 10.Nxd5 Nxd5 11.Nh4 Nb4 12.Qd2 N8c6 13.Nf5 Nd4 14.Nxd4 cxd4 15.Bxa8 Qxa8 16.0–0 Qe4 17.a3 Nc2 18.Ra2 Rc8 19.b3 Rc3 20.Bb2 Rc6 21.Rd1 Bf6 +/- 22.Qd3 d5 23.Qf3 h6 24.h4 g5 25.hxg5 hxg5 26.b4 Carlsen now has enough compensation for the material sacrifice. Kg7 27.Qd3 b5 28.Bc1 1/2
Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
carlsen has been very fortunate so far and may feel confident that aronian will make a blunder as well.
possibly this has become a strategy of carlsen – to play for a worse position and then wait for your opponents blunders.
I must say that I didn’t understand his positional exchange sacrifice at all… if this is what this game is actually about!
NOooOOOoOooo…
Let’s see if Magnus can save the game…
It looks to me, after d5, that Carlsen is playing for a stranglehold on the center with pawns at d4 and, if white takes black’s queen, at e4 as well. Is that enough for the exchange? I’m not good enough to say.
Brad Hoehne
aronian has the exchange, but he is almost in zugzwang
Black has a powerful attack. White’s rooks are completely bottled up. I think things are actually looking good for Carlsen.
24. . g5! seems a great move, if white exchange the queens after a black : g4, position is equal.
Blacks pieces are more actives.
I think the real guy in trouble is Shirov. He is also an exchange down in a very simplified position and Radga’s ending technique should be enough to get the full point. In this game, I think Carlsen has created a very complex position and a precise assessment goes beyong my understanding
so Anand has to lose and magnus win in the next round for him to win?
A.Munoz
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Aronian was running short on time and couldn’t get anywhere in this position. Magnus’s exchange sacrifice turned out to be sound. So he offered Magnus a draw which Magnus accepted.
“possibly this has become a strategy of carlsen – to play for a worse position and then wait for your opponents blunders.”
Play for a worse position? LOL! Listen to yourself. Are you a patzer?
I think that was a joke, not serious.
Anyway, I’m glad this turned out a draw. For a while I thought Aronian was going to win.