Photo by erral
When I asked Magnus how he likes traveling with his Dad, he said it is great. It gives him a feeling of being secure and he helps him with food and everything else he may need help with during a trip. At the same time they both have privacy in having separate rooms during a tournament.
I spoke to Magnus’ father in the press room today, (where he was following the games of the event) and he told me how independent his son is. Since he was young, he always liked to make his own decisions about things. Today even though they do discuss various issues, the final decision always belongs to Magnus.
It is great to see such a close relationship between father and son, with mutual respect! I really do like both of them, very nice and down to earth people!
I also asked Magnus if he agreed with my commentary that the critical moment of the game was when instead of 17.Nc4, Aronian chose 17.Rab1?!. He agreed and commented that Black was ok then too after 17.Nc4 Rxe2 18.Qd3 Ba6 19.Qxe2 and 19…d5.
Aronian felt that he had a big advantage after the opening, but then chose the worst possible continuation.
Go Magnus!
You have more fotos at http://www.flickr.com/photos/erral/sets/72157607080326705/ and some videos in YouTube: http://es.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=CE405A16450B013D
I hope to be some other days and take more pictures !
Erral, thanks for that
Magnus is awesome.
I will agree with you if he defeat Anand and Ivanchuk
Magnus’ father comment from his blog:
“As Magnus was black against Aronian he somewhat surprisingly faced 1.c4 and after some traditional theory moves Aronian played the unusual 6.Nd2. Black is all right but Magnus later consider his 9….Rb8 somewhat dubious and Aronian was able to but a knight (and subsequently his queen) on d6 blocking the d7-pawn.
It looks a bit nasty for black but Magnus never felt his position was critical as he could develop his pieces on the queen side and even had a slight advantage in development.
Aronian continued to play aggressive and sacrificed the b2-pawn to strengthen the tight-lock of d6. He might have won an exchange for two pawns and reach an unbalanced position but maybe he was hoping for an advantage in the continuation. As it went black was more than okey and when Aronian missed the best continuation in the queen and rook ending Magnus was able to secure a decisive advantage.
He convincingly found the critical continuation 31….Rd1! and later exchanged rooks to reach a winning queen ending. Short on time he had to watch out for some traps before the time control. Later he consistently chose safe solutions leading to a win by first advancing the a-pawn and then giving it up for the f-pawn and a mating attack.”
Go GM Carlsen!
Go GM Polgar!
Two World Champions!