GM Carlsen (2733) – GM Topalov (2780) [A28]
04.03.2008 / Linares – Round 12
1.c4 e5 2.Nc3 Nf6 3.Nf3 Nc6 4.d3 d5 5.cxd5 Nxd5 6.e4 Nb6 7.Be2 Be7 8.0–0 0–0 9.a4 Be6 10.Be3 Nd7 = 11.d4 exd4 12.Nxd4 Nxd4 13.Qxd4 c6 14.a5 Nc5 15.Qe5 Nb3 16.Ra4 Bd6 17.Qh5 g6 18.Qh6 Be5 19.Bg5 Qc7 20.Be3 Nxa5 21.f4 Bg7 22.Qh4 Bb3 23.Rd4 Rad8 24.e5 Rxd4 25.Bxd4 c5 26.Be3 f6 27.Nb5 Qd8 =+ 28.f5 fxe5 29.Bg5 Qb6 30.f6 c4+ 31.Kh1 Qxb5 32.fxg7 Rxf1+ 33.Bxf1 Kxg7 = 34.Bd8 Nc6??? This gives White a forced mate 35.Qf6+ Kg8 36.Qe6+ Kf8 37.Bg5 1–0
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Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
I like Topalov’s position.
And now ? you like it ?
🙂
Toppy just stumbled into mate.
:)))))))))))))))))))))
wow, carlsen bit him hard!
The pinnacle of ‘coffeehouse chess! And I mean it as a compliment. Topalov thought he was cruising,then hit black ice!
I applaud Topalov and Carlsen. Was a very exciting game! Both of those guys like to mix it up.
Next book, “my best stolen games” :
[EventDate “2007.05.27”]
[Round “10”]
[Result “1-0”]
[White “Magnus Carlsen”]
[Black “Levon Aronian”]
[Round “10”]
[Result “0-1”]
[White “Loek Van Wely”]
[Black “Magnus Carlsen”]
and now :
Magnus Carlsen vs Veselin Topalov
[Round “12”]
2008 Corus, for the Loek Van Wely vs Magnus Carlsen
“my best stolen games”
Picking up what others throw away is not exactly stealing. But maybe Carlsen should have said: “Excuse me, Sir. You have lost half a point. Here, it’s yours.”
I’m back I’m back I’m back. I was in a tournament in Monterrey Mexico. I missed you guys.
WCM Claudia Munoz
4th grade
womancandidatemaster.blogspot.com
Why on earth would anyone play …Nc6 like that; it’s like hampering your pieces so that they can’t defend the king.
Really funny though… almost too good to be true– that carlsen managed to beat ivanchuk even though ivan had an edge throughout the game. And now this…
Does Nakamura make that mistake??!! 🙂
Wow! Young Claudia sounds really happy!!! 🙂
And our wonderful boy has won again… isn’t he a joyful friend?! 🙂
Yes! We surely must be glad…
Rui leprechaun
(…with all those wins he’s had! :))
PS: And what about that Monterrey trip?! Well, I’m gonna spy on your blog… soon!!!
All Claudia Munoz’s comments, are so Constructives lol. A new champion is born.
I’ve loved Carlsen’s adventurous play for a long time. Of late, however, he seems to have a knack for inciting blunders in his opponents while he is in worse or slightly worse positions.
… Bd8 was nice, though.
Brad Hoehne
Topalov gave Carlsen a gift that allowed a direct kingside attack just like yesterday the same was given him by Shirov!
It is so difficult to play Magnus, nearly like against computers (even if Magnus also often play no-computer-moves). If you do one mistake, it is a draw. If you do 2 mistakes, you have lost.
and if you do no mistake it is a win???
A blunder by Topalov. But still: The blunder wouldn’t have been possible if Magnus hadn’t kept trying to complicate and find new possibilities…
Another amazing tournament by Magnus.
It obviously is Magnus’s tournament. He’s playing well, but he’s got the top luck too. Even so, Anand still has a surplus.
aw c’mon ….Carlsen is just taking advantage of what is offered to him…not like some gm’s who just take a draw and stop playing…he squeezes it and squeezes it. Sorry but I think thats cool Good for him.
He’s not perfect..but he is a fighter. Good quality in a kid that age.
“Anonymous said…
Does Nakamura make that mistake??!! :)”
Good question! I take the liberty to quote this from
http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessplayer?pid=52948&kpage=844
“frogbert: the funny thing is those kibitzers on icc saying “this was all topalov’s game”, meaning that he created his advantage himself, and then gave the victory to carlsen. :o)
the latter is true, in a sense, since correct defence was a draw at the time. the first part is comical, though:
carlsen played risky in the early middle game to create an unbalanced position – this a5, ra4, qe5, qh5 business isn’t anything you play to be solid, but to create (mutual) chances for a decisive result. offering the exchange with rd4 when you’re already a pawn down, for unclear compensation, is also iniative-seeking moves from carlsen. topalov turned the offer down, though – maybe a mistake?!?
all of the above choices were probably not entirely sound, but it’s a bit strange listening to kibitzers not realizing that carlsen “drove” that game, almost from start to finish. topalov does his part, of course, by trying to take advantage of the possibilities carlsen’s risky play has given him, and topalov probably had safer choices, too. but carlsen was setting direction and speed.
anyway, the number of “tests” passed on to topalov eventually became too much, and when he played nc6, probably imagining a perpetual and a draw within a minute, he’d overlooked bg5! “incredible/unbelievable blunder” has been uttered lots of times already, but several ims and gms didn’t see the mate before the engine-kibitzers told them how – not even when told there’s a mate.
nakamura went: “mate? what mate?” and then “qf6 kg8 and what?”, watched some more comments, then repeated “qf6 kg8 and then what?” for the second time. someone said “qe6+”. pause. then “and then if kf8?” before either he got it or someone told him (hard to tell which), and he said “oh bg5… sick”.
the forcing line starting with f5! (a move the computers didn’t really like, but which probably was better than anything fritz/rybka had cooked up in the time (20+ minutes) carlsen had been thinking) was an example of the kind of stuff topalov got thrown at him.
i’d still assumme a super-gm like topalov to find bg5 if he spent a little time, but if the relay was anything to go by, he played nc6 rather quickly – and that’s a well-known method to blunder. :o)
cudos to carlsen – an entertaining game which still had ended a draw with a strong enough opponent. but we can hardly blame carlsen that his opponents aren’t able to cope with his play, can we? :o)”