Magnus Carlsen vs Anish Giri (Tata Steel 2017)
White to move and win!
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1. Bf7+ Kh8
2. Rh5+ Kg7
3. Bxe6+ Kf6
It’s a tough ending but white wins eventually
Maybe, would have to think about this one. If white can somehow get the bishop from c4 on move 4 to g2 at some point, white might avoid the 3-fold repetition. Complicated, much more so than 1.Rc8.
Yes, I blew this one.
1. Rc8 looks much better than my line, but I was thinking like Magnus Carlsen did 🙂
Yancey Ward I have another problem for you. Here it is
4r3/pp1nr3/2p4p/4p1b1/4kPP1/1PBN4/P1P1K3/3R4 w – –
White to move
Would it surprise you that I am also familiar with this puzzle, too? I own a hard copy of “Kasparov: How His Predecessors Misled Him About Chess” in which Kasparov discusses exactly this game and position.
I hoped that you weren’t familiar with this puzzle.
It’s a very beautiful puzzle and I liked it.
It is a pretty puzzle- the 2nd move is really tough to see since it is so quiet in nature. You should look up the game itself- the mate in 3 is pretty, but the play before that is very imaginative- Kasparov picked it up a few moves before Nf2+ if memory serves. In any case, the game is Smyslov vs Oll from 1993 and can be found on Chessgames.com
Isn’t this basically the same mate that won Carlsen the World Championship just two months ago? Who could forget Qxh6+! A fantastic sacrifice!
Now RC8+ leads to the same mate with the Black King on h6 or else a huge material disadvantage.
Is this GM burnout?
It’s tough being the best player in the world because if you win nobody is going to think there’s anything very special about that whereas if you lose then people are going to do what we’re doing now, other players are going to like playing through your games because of the quality of play and consequently are going to be more familiar with the openings and stuff that you often play whereas its going to be less fun for you to play through other people’s games because you’re seeing more mistakes, and your opponents are going to be specially motivated against you because they stand to gain status just by drawing against you. So you do need to dream up some extra motivation somehow to stay at the top of the game.
World champion missing mate in 3.
For those who didn’t follow this game earlier, Carlsen missed 1.Rc8 from the given position, and played the far less accurate 1. Bf7, but then erred further by not following with 4.Bc4 maintaining the two rooks for the queen. He ended up allowing Giri to eventually reduce the entire position down to the theoretically drawn ending where white has the wrong bishop for queening the last white pawn- the h-pawn. 4.Bc4 added to Alena’s line, the game line, allows white to retain what is probably a decisive edge, but I looked at it for a while earlier today, and I can’t convince myself that white can avoid the repetitious checks from the queen without giving up a rook for a knight. Unfortunately for me, the Chessbomb engine analysis gives only the one move 4.Bc4 with no further analysis.
Yancey, there was a line for 59. Bc4 yesterday on chessbomb, but it was so complicated for a human to calculate all the sidelines that it seems virtualy impossible even for a > 2800 player. So 59. Bc4 an easy win for a computer, for humans just another risky line.
Rainer,
Ah, you are correct, I was only following the game distractedly, and only saw the analysis at the last point Carlsen had to play 59.Bc4. The analysis is included if you back up just one move in the game. That looks nothing like what I was thinking when studying it last night. The end of that line, B+2P vs N is won according the Nalimov Tablebase.
Carlsen has had a bad couple of days- he just lost to Richard Rapport.
Yancey starting at move 48 in the game 8/2r5/2nkrR2/R3p2p/7P/6P1/6BK/8 would 48.Rxe6+ Kxe6 49.Ra6 Kd6 50.Rxc6+ Rxc6 51.Bxc6 Kxc6 52.g4 Kd5 53.gxh5 be a win for White?
No, I’d forgotten about the stalemate thing with rook pawns.
I think Carlsen just lost concentration considering the game already won.
Just to clarify:
1. Rc8+ Kg7 (if Knight interposes, it just get taken. If Rook interposes, it gets taken and the Queen falls too)
2.Rf7+ Kh6
3. Rh8#