Carlsen, M (2772) – Wang Yue (2736) [D17]
2nd Pearl Spring – Nanjing, China (8), 06.10.2009
1.d4 d5 2.c4 c6 3.Nf3 Nf6 4.Nc3 dxc4 5.a4 Bf5 6.Ne5 Nbd7 7.Nxc4 Qc7 8.g3 e5 9.dxe5 Nxe5 10.Bf4 Nfd7 11.Bg2 g5 12.Ne3 gxf4 13.Nxf5 0–0–0 14.Qc2 Ng6 15.0–0 Kb8 16.Rfc1 a5 17.b4 axb4 18.Nb5 Qe5 19.Nbd4 Bc5 20.Nb3 h5 21.Rab1 Ba7 22.Bxc6 fxg3 23.hxg3 Rc8 24.Qd3 bxc6 25.Qxd7 Rc7 26.Qd3 h4 27.Nbd4 hxg3 28.Rxb4+ Ka8 29.Nxg3 Rd8 30.e3 Nh4 31.Kf1 Qa5 32.Rcb1 Nf3 33.Nb3 Qd5 34.Qxd5 cxd5 35.Rd1 Rc2 36.Rf4 Ne5 37.Nd4 Rc4 38.Nde2 Rxf4 39.Nxf4 d4 40.Nge2 Nc6 41.e4 Rb8 42.Nd5 Rb2 43.Nef4 Kb7 44.Nd3 Rb3 45.Ke2 Ra3 46.f4 Rxa4 47.Rb1+ Kc8 48.Rc1 Kb7 49.e5 Ra3 50.Rh1 Ra5 51.Nf6 Bb8 52.Rb1+ Kc8 53.Rc1 Kb7 54.Ne4 Ra3 55.Rh1 Bxe5 56.fxe5 Nxe5 57.Nd6+ Ka6 58.Nb4+ Kb6 59.Rc1 Re3+ 60.Kd1 Rb3 61.Nd5+ Ka7 62.Ra1+ Kb8 63.Kc2 Rh3 64.Rb1+ Ka7 65.Rb7+ Ka6 66.Rb6+ Ka5 67.Rb5+ Ka4 68.Nb6+ Ka3 69.Rxe5 1–0
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Holy smoke! First of all a very exciting and strong game from both players.
And then, when the hole world thinks it’s a dead draw, Magnus comes up with some end game sorcery which tricks Wang into a mate trap.
A game for the history books!
Everybody was saying that Wang could sacrifice on e5 and it would be a draw.
Sure. Theoretically. So Wang did. But, do players really want to leave Magnus with a rook and two knights against ones king (yes, also a rook, knight and two pawns, but king was exposed)?
Now I have seen him finish off his opponent with rook and knight giing mate-threats so many times that it will be time for players to reconsider I think.
but what shall they do??
Ths is kid is the real deal. He is the best representative of humanity in any match against machines. Be nice to see him play Kramnik [not Anand. Anand has Carlsen’s number anyday :)] for the World Championship…. which would be an easy 10 wins, two draws for Carlsen.
I heard Karpov has offered to become Assistant Coach for Carlsen.
MC seems to be over his mid-tournament bad form!!
Be nice to see a 3000+ performance.
2 rounds to go…and he already has at least a share of first place..been awhile since I’ve seen this…wow.
Not sure he’s best choice versus machine as he gambles a bit to go for the win. Very energetic vs humans but best not to gamble vs machines.
So….
Carlsen just has the two bunnies left to play 🙂
Very interesting game! But certainly not flawless: I played through it with Rybka, at least 23…Ne7 looks very promising, and Rybka even gives an advantage for black. The critical line seems to be: 23…Ne7 24.Nbd4 Bxd4 25.Rxb4 Nxc6 26.Qxc6 Bb6 and white seems to have insufficient compensation. 32.Rxc6! on the other hand would have been a clear winner for Carlsen.
It seems the endgame should have been drawn, but it’s very tricky, lots of ways to blunder. Black could have tried 59…Ra5 or even 60…Ka5 61.Nd5 Re1! which will convert in a KNNKP ending with the pawn on f5. Theoretically won, but in practice really hard.
The position after 60…Rb3? would make a nice “white to move and win” puzzle. After 63.Kc2 the whole b-file is attacked by white, except for b8, which is occupied by the black king 🙂
PdV
‘but what shall they do??’
Are you moron?
Can someone please tell me where to start learning chess from?
‘Everybody was saying that Wang could sacrifice on e5 and it would be a draw.’
Were Yildiz and Adrian two of them?
What’s all this talk about machines? Who cares? A pitching machine could be placed on the mound at Yankee stadium and strike out every human being alive. So what? Chess is a game for and amongst humans. I couldn’t care less what a machine can do. Next topic please.
Wow! Russian commentator IM Игорь ЯНВАРЕВ just slammed the door on Chessbase commentator GM Mihail Marin for lousy and deceiving commentary given at chessbase.com! Says something like it’s a mockery, blasfemy on the game of chess. No wonder russians are the best in chess generally. I only hope someone could translate it all!!
http://chesspro.ru/_events/2009/janvarev.html
Has anyone put the position into Fritz after Yue sacrificed for the pawns? Can’t wait to see the analysis on this one. Playing through it, I can’t say where Yue went wrong. I know I would have been going crazy with two enemy knights jumping around my king with my rook nearby.
I dont like your black background. Its haunting.
‘I heard Karpov has offered to become Assistant Coach for Carlsen.’
I heard Rybka has offered to become Assistant Coach for Carlsen.
Carlsen is only one win a way from reaching 2800. A win with white is highly expected so he probably will cross 2800 by the end of this tournment (a choice I wanted at Susan’s poll a week ago).
Carlsen loves to beat Wang.
Here’s a translation of the comments to the game over at chesspro.ru.:
http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=ru&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fchesspro.ru%2Fchessonline%2Fonlines%2Findex_2433.html
So, why is Topalov playing for the World Championship again after losing to Kramnik in Elista?
What we need now is a true World Championship match between Kramnik and Carlsen with Kasparov as Carlsen second trying to do what he could not accomplish in person and avenge the humiliation of 2000.
“What’s all this talk about machines? Who cares? A pitching machine could be placed on the mound at Yankee stadium and strike out every human being alive. So what? Chess is a game for and amongst humans. I couldn’t care less what a machine can do. Next topic please.”
Sounds like you’ve had your skull thumped many times by your handheld chess device rated 1200, your electronic chessboard rated 1500, Fritz, and Chessmaster. Poor little dear. I understand your frustration. 🙂
Yeah its nice to see Magnus doin well but clearly Vishy and Topy stronger!The Russians have been using deceiving commentary for centuries its not anything new though but good point!!! haha.
Live Rating for Carlsen: 2797.4 !!! #2 in the world!
“Sounds like you’ve had your skull thumped many times by your handheld chess device rated 1200, your electronic chessboard rated 1500, Fritz, and Chessmaster. Poor little dear. I understand your frustration. :-)”
I don’t think it sounds like that…
I think it sounds like common sense.
If a machine can beat a human, is that a reason for humans to stop playing? Hardly.
It’s not interesting to see if a human can beat a super-computer in chess.
Same way as it’s not interesting to see if a human can beat a chimpanzee in arm wrestling.
As the original poster said… the interest lies in seeing people competing against people. People competing against something something completely different, and stronger, is hardly interesting…
Had time to look at the end of the game more deeply. After black’s 60th move, everything is forced by the mating threats- the black knight could not be saved after this point.
I don’t know if Yue’s sacrifice of the bishop for the two pawns was good for a draw, but I have a hard time finding a better plan than that- the bishop was hemned in by his own pawn and the white pawns. It may have been only a matter of time before Carlsen found a way to win a second pawn which would have secured the win anyway.
I get the feeling that Yue may have expected a different response to the sacrifice- white managed to keep both of his knights on the board rather than reduce the position down to a rook+2 pawns vs rook+knight. The extra knight made all the difference in the world as it allowed white to threaten mating attacks without his king being involved.
No, I am not a protestant, muslim, jew, mormon or even moron,
your comment and also the other comment going: “sounds like you’ve had your skull thumped many times by your handheld chess device rated 1200,”
are discraceful and shows how good it is that the game of chess exist so we can beat this kind of behaviour real .. proper… Gooood —
“Sounds like you’ve had your skull thumped many times by your handheld chess device rated 1200, your electronic chessboard rated 1500, Fritz, and Chessmaster. Poor little dear. I understand your frustration. :-)”
What a pathetic comment! You really sux 🙂 The other guy had a good point. I guess you think Usain Bolt is slow too, since he’s not as fast as your car.