Ni Hua (2665) – Magnus Carlsen (2801) [B51]
13.12.2009
London Chess Classic
1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.Bb5+ Nd7 4.d4 a6 5.Bxd7+ Bxd7 6.dxc5 dxc5 7.Nc3 e6 8.Bf4 Ne7 9.Ne5 Ng6 10.Qh5 Bc6 11.Bg3 Nxe5 12.Bxe5 c4 13.0–0 Qa5 14.Qg5 h6 15.Qg3 f6 16.Qg6+ Ke7 17.Bf4 Be8 18.Qg3 Kf7 19.Rad1 Bc6 20.Rd2 e5 21.Be3 Bb4 22.f4 Rhe8 23.f5 Bc5 24.Rfd1 Rad8 25.Rxd8 Bxe3+ 26.Qxe3 Rxd8 27.Rxd8 Qxd8 28.Kf2 Qd6 29.a3 a5 30.Kf3 Kg8 31.g3 b5 32.Ke2 b4 33.axb4 axb4 34.Nd1 Ba4 35.b3 cxb3 36.cxb3 Qa6+ 37.Kd2 Bb5 38.Qc5 Qa2+ 39.Qc2 Qa7 40.Qc8+ Kh7 41.Kc1 Qa1+ 42.Kc2 Qd4 Black wins 0–1
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Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
Carlsen played solid today.Ni worse than expected.
What’s the threat by black? Why did white resign?
Extremely impressive play by Carlsen after some strange opening moves. He is clearly the best player in the world!
Lucky Carlsen , whie looked so promising .
It was wrong for Garry Kasparov to retire with all of these winning ideas he developed. However, I guess he got tired of beating Kramnik and playing coffeehouse players like Anand and Topalov. Why do you want to keep playing if there is no one in your league? So that is why he is going after Putin? Anyway, the bigger problem is what happens if Carlsen gets bored by playing these same players with Kasparov analysis and goes into retirement early too? Maybe the downside of knowing everything Kasparov knows about chess is that it leads to big boredom. Maybe the right thing to do is have FIDE confiscate the Kasparov database and chess knowledge and destroy it like IBM did with Deep Blue?
Go Magnus!
He’s relentless, clearly the best player in the world at the moment.
destroy it like IBM did with Deep Blue?
A totally genius move by IBM!
Many criticized it, I totally agreed with it. Why? Because for decades, went the argument, whether a computer can ever defeat the reigning world champion in a match. Deep Blue did just that. Why bother with another match, or a third, or whatever? The dispute was settled once and for all. IBM, by destroying Deep Blue prevented even the possibility for any further dispute.
Isn’t it the irony of life, that back in 1997 Kasparov accused IBM that “a human helped the computer”, thus they cheated? Today, it is just the other way around, human players are accused of cheating by using computer 🙂
Carlsen is a highly interesting follow-up to Kasparow. His style is different to him. They’re both masters in initiative, but Carlsen tend to kill it off later in the game. Carlsen’s speciality is clarity in converting middle and endgames seemingly effortless, also in positions which seem quite equal.
Carlsen is just a lucky chap.
He has no beautiful games, Tal would have quit if he had to play like C.
The kid is helpless in a match format.
Carlsen could be the end of chess, except he is lazy and will quit pretty soon.
That is a scoop boys, you read it here first – Carlsen will quit chess, get a life and maybe get a woman
Anonymous at 5:21:00:
Yes, real lucky. He is actually a 2400-player, but by luck he is now clear number 1. Luckily he won against Kramnik (one of the best match-players) in round 1. He is just a poor, lucky kid.
YOU on the other hand, must really have a great life and a wondeful woman. I bet!!
Yes, IBM did a goody by destroying Deep Blue. Nothing like having reproducible results foul up what you are trying to prove. Kind of like the guys who destroyed all the original global warming data and then ask the world to take them on faith. Or Tiger Woods asking the people not to believe in the baseless malicious rumors that are circulating about him on the internet. IBM needs to donate the Deep Blue to the Roswell Extraterrestrial Museum where it will be most appreciated.
Carlsen is great, but whoever is the top chess player is reigning over a corpse of a game.
Chess is over, intellectually—success at the highest levels is 99% about regurgitating analysis from computers.
No original minds are entering chess today, only vultures opportunistically feeding after the kill.
Since I grew up with chess, I still enjoy watching games, and playing sometimes, but I wouldn’t start chess now.
I would play go instead.
Even if computers are able to win go games (and they probably will),
there is no way that humans will be able to memorize lines to the extent they do in chess—not only are the combinations orders of magnitude more complex, but also, opening variations in one corner can only be properly understood by looking at the whole board.
Or for that matter, play checkers on a larger board.
Sure, Carlsen is a big talent and his play is quite lovely. It’s really a shame that he has come of age after the death of chess.
2400, that is interesting. I have been going over his games. I would say about 85% of his moves are 2400 moves, but then he has about 10% moves at the 2800 level and maybe 5% moves at the 2900 level. But if you have to round down I would say he plays mostly like a 2400 level player. You can check this yourself with Rybka or Fritz.
I am quite sure the lucky theory guy is too unlucky to get your point 🙂