i'd like to welcome all of you to the final video of the norway chess 2020 recap series
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a little bit more wild at my new york side show but before we jump into the games i
just wanted to you know thank you for making this possible and obviously i will be making
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so just wanted to get that off my chest much love to all of you let's get into the games
going into today um magnus carlson was in first place and he was playing against lavon aronian
uh and magnus started the game out with knight f3 which is already again unique he took a page out
of alireza's playbook uh but then it transposed into a queen's gambit declined with knight c3
a lot of lines here rogozin is what i would have expected from levon but he goes standard qgd
and magnus takes takes and plays bishop f4 this is not super popular this move order but you see
very quickly why he does it so levon goes for g6 trying to go over bishop f5 hitting the queen
and trades off the bishops now magnus carlsen continues the game with very natural development
nope he plays the move h4 this is how you know that you are watching a game between
two super gm's because one of them has just played the move h4 and the other one plays a5
i mean it literally looks like two six year olds that have never played chess are now
just figuring out that they should get their rooks out they actually have never learned to castle
so that's what they're doing we get kf1 now looks like an irl mouse slip from magnus carlson
a4 continues to advance on this side of the board look the actual explanation for these moves is
that magnus doesn't want a castle he wants to maintain the root behind the pawn and long term
create an idea to play h5 put it out in the center maybe even play g4 g5 then he'll put his king on
g2 levon is trying to do so on the other side of the board so magnus plays a3 and shuts it down
queen b6 and queen c2 comes back levon plays h5 now to prevent the move h5 itself but he does give
up some dark squares and knight e5 is possible hitting there that's what magnus does he puts two
pieces forward but lavon just basically says dude yes you can sacrifice but this is just the draw
uh you're not gonna win this game i mean unless i go here and hang mate in one i'm gonna go here i'm
gonna cover up with the knight so check i mean i can just go back but i can also just cover up with
the knight if i really want to and so magnus doesn't want to do that so it goes like this
and now plays rook h3 and here's a very important lesson for you when you are under attack and you
are facing pressure especially against your king you want to trade off the most powerful attacking
piece you want to trade off all the pieces but you want to trade off the most powerful attacking
piece and since you know this is about to happen and the sacrifice is looming you play queen b3
this is an exceptional uh move from lavon because if this happens white has no attack anymore and
nobody's really going to win this pawn this pawn is very tough to take if you go back i mean i'm
just going to bring my knight forward and actually that's exactly what happened in the game magnus
moves away from the queen and lavon sacks upon but plays bishop d6 with pressure on the queen
chop chop check picks up the pawn and we get this position material is equal but black is
better because black has a lot more activity and very obvious targets like this so the player
shuffled around for a little while and then traded queens and then magnus goes for b3 and essentially
what magnus is saying here is that with this sequence of trades in particular with this one
yes he's worse but he can hold the position it's rook in five versus rook and five black is better
because black's rook is very well positioned it cuts off the king from coming forward
it defends and you are the only guy in the position with a pass upon a pass pawn
is a pawn that has no pawn hindering its movement forward whereas this one would be taken
this one would be taken and even though a two on one would result in a pass pawn later that's not
gonna happen very easily right now so the players start bringing in their kinks and here levon
should not have gone for king e6 he apparently should have gone king d6 king c5 king c4
uh and then right here he uh he also messed up again a little bit later should have maybe played
f5 with the idea to play f4 and basically make this king have to go to the back rank or back
this way so levon was giving magnus chances like this king d6 thing was really strange
um apparently lavon here had to like go for some weird maneuver with the rook where he he like
sets the path for his c pawn and again as i said here the move f5 according to ceci was like minus
seven or something it was it was the winning move because after pawn takes f5 um he has g
takes f5 again with this idea and you can't play it yourself because of the pin now in the game
he got f6 and magnus brought in his king and his pawns and sacked the pawn for a pawn now he has a
past h pawn levon plays the move b4 at this point magnus is equal if he plays this the right way
except he doesn't and he takes on f6 and blunders something unbelievable and yes magnus only had
about two minutes which is pretty rare i mean magnus only having two minutes on the clock
uh levon having 25 or something but taking naturally is apparently the losing move
uh and g5 to go for pawn takes pawn and pawn takes pawn with b3 is uh is better not because you're
gonna go out this way to stop the pawn because that actually wouldn't work rook a1 black is
defending and and covering you you need to go stop the pawn from the b file not from the side
but you need to go check and king b6 and rook g8 and the point is that if i play rook a7 here
you have check rook b7 take take and you promote g6 b2 g7 b1 g8 queen you make a queen the second
i make a queen magnus must have miscalculated with rook f6 because now his pawn doesn't get forward
and now b3 is simply winning because after check here rook f8 you're not in time with this idea you
are now one square shorter in the other variation your pawn is on the fifth rank so magnus all of a
sudden has to scramble back with his king and rook to prevent the pawns from coming forward
and magnus here can't even stop with the king because of the beautiful idea of pushing a lot
of people would end their thought here with black they said this doesn't work but it does check here
discovered check and i'm thinking that with two minutes on the clock magnus must have just blended
i mean i just don't know i honestly i just don't know what he blundered but that might have been
it because in two minutes to see all this is is unbelievable and after c3 and lavon brings his
king forward king here came here magnus actually resigned apparently after playing this move but
this is lost because these pawns are too close you're just gonna win by giving a check and
pushing both these pawns and magnus carlsen loses a second time so a couple of records broken he
still wins the tournament we'll see if levon gets second or third let's check out alireza's game
but he loses rating he loses two games in a classical tournament and what's crazier is he
loses in the final round of a tournament probably for the first time since the candidates 2016 or
2014 or 2014 i think that was when he lost to uh when he lost in the last round was it to svidler
i think it was this fiddler yes fiddler beat him in the last round of the candidates and
magnus also hasn't lost with white in a classical game in like 90 games something completely insane
so the second game that we're going to check in on is ferruja versus duda ferruga in this tournament
surging doing really well yes he had that terrible terrible slip up yesterday
but doing quite well he uh otherwise and due to having a disaster of an event
so the players start out with a totally symmetrical opening and c4 c6 b3 this is
one way to create an imbalance if take you're gonna go take so take take c5 and bishop b2
and essentially black is saying all right i've got some pressure on you like this maybe my bishop is
going to pressure you when i move my knight but ali reza is no no no slouch he plays a
very interesting maneuver here of bringing the knight back to c2 knight on d2 defense the c4 pawn
and this queen and like somehow black's position is good but he can't move forward you know what
i mean like black can't move forward with anybody and then for the rest of the game
ali reza just very slowly improves his position bishop slides forward queen slides forward dude
it goes for a trade of bishop okay knight is going to slide forward you see he's like making steady
improving moves with his pieces rook transfers from here to here and he plays this rook because
this rook is going to go here and pressure on the b file then he plays this very nice idea e3
c4 is uncapturable with all sorts of bishop f1 tactics something like knight c4 rook c4 you
have bishop f1 but that doesn't quite work right now because rook c1 and you can't take the queen
but more importantly you have this move after rook c4 and that move is knight c7
with the fork on the queen and the rook and your rook from c1 defense so rook
uh c7 c7 rook c7 and you would win material but still bishop f1 is is kind of another tactical
idea here uh and also if you had gone e4 which looked very natural uh knight c4 and now you throw
in the in-between move bishop takes d5 before this pawn got here the bishop was protecting the bishop
and so that bishop would take and guard the knight now if you go here the knight has no guard right
so that's that's really the big difference here but in the game duda did this walked into e4
and had to go back and he didn't go here because he was going to get hit with this move
so dude it i don't know what he did but then ali raza did a little bit of a weird thing he traded
the queens and he's still a lot better but he's he's not as it's not as good as it could have
been but he just i mean he's just on fire this tournament and he just i mean look at this he like
takes all the space he brings his king a3 bishop f7 bishop h3 brings the knight trait tries to
trade it off and now two weaknesses beautiful move c5 opening up possibilities to bring in his knight
now taking away the d6 square from the enemy knight brings his bishop back to cover that entire
diagonal trades in the center and immediately goes for duda's only weakness wins his only weakness
and knight g4 and here duda resigned the game he resigned the game because the rook is hanging and
so is the horse and if he plays rook to c6 you have bishop b5 if the rook comes back to try to
defend well you switch your focus entirely and you go rook f1 check king g8 knight h6 and checkmate
and you have a ladder mate hidden in the middle of a game so ali raza faruja wins as well and overall
gains 21 rating points to go to 27 27.50 he is now the 16th or 17th highest rated player in the world
people next on that list karjakin wang hao lenier dominguez perez even anand is like 12th or 13th
obviously a nun not playing as much anymore and especially i mean this year hasn't played since
why kansai but just amazing to see that from ali reza a lot of you thought that i was very
harsh on him i was critical at the end of the day i firmly believe that alireza can challenge
magnus carlsen for the throne and obviously a lot of you do as well so credit to him
the last matchup of the day was fabiano caruana versus orientary would aryan bounce back he's been
having an extremely rough event let's see what he can come up with against fabiano caruana so
aru lopez if you haven't watched my match against chiu you should do it played a lot of spanish's
it's a classical main line here and a4 this is more of a modern twist rather than playing c3
uh rather than playing you know and then allowing a marshall rather than playing an anti-martial he
goes for a4 b4 and a5 now still black can go for a setup where he plays d6 and d5 and the player's
got a pretty big main line position where there's a long series of trades in the center of the board
and ultimately what happens is black is down a pawn but black has the two bishops
and so tari makes a slight error actually he's supposed to put his bishop on c4 or e6
there this way he allows fabiano pressure with bishop h6 but he brings the bishop back
to e6 and fabi takes it so fabi tries to make the game exciting by sacrificing an exchange
uh and getting this kind of a position where he has a knight and two pawns for a rook the problem
is that he doesn't have a lot of play and atari correctly trades off his opponent's pieces uh
and then gets a queen trade and just you saw that how quickly he he he crushed the fobby's attack
now fabi's still able to do something very nice instructive moment here h4 setting up an outpost
on the g5 square now the pawns can all guard each other the knight lives forever on g5 and the
players just swap off all the pawns yes tari has the two horses but he just gets it down to a king
in rock endgame and this is a draw this is not a loseable king in pawn end game uh players push for
quite a long time uh and uh instead of agreeing to a draw fabiano decides let me play on maybe
tari will do something crazy like like for rouge yesterday instead he just stalemates him there was
no chance for a win here and we go to the final game of norway chess 2020 an armageddon match
between fabiano caruana and ari antari 10 minutes for white seven minutes for black no bonus time
until the 41st move and if a draw is the result in black winds another spanish bishop a4 knight f6
castles bishop e7 and now the overwhelming main line even seen in the last game but d3 okay d3
b5 bishop b3 and d6 very very mainline position here white has a lot of setups main one is a3 with
knight c3 and bishop to g5 fighting for the d5 square but this just shows you the difficulty of
playing super grand master level chess ariantari is 2640 2650. he's playing against fabiano caruana
right so here fabi plays a move against him that has been played in 50 games ever out of 5
000 games and it's bishop d2 and it's like what is that movie even doing here's what it's doing
it is trying to avoid knight a5 and it's delaying the movement excuse me of the queen side
all right and it's gonna make him think because the guy's only got seven minutes on the clock
so we get castles and as early as this position we have a position in the rue lopez that has never
been reached that's what fabiano is trying to do he gets tari out of his comfort zone so tara can't
come up with the best plan and you see knight a5 is usually the idea to get rid of the bishop
but bishop d2 cuts that out and now he's able to save a square for his king sorry for his bishop
transfer his knight over to this side of the board and look at this look at what he does here
he voluntarily damages his own pawn structure how rarely do we see this being good but in a rapid
game it's actually really good it's it's really really strong the point being that now you will
put your rooks on the open files damaging your structure but you're gonna push take away c5 from
the bishop lock these pawns in place and you're just much better and that's exactly what he does
and then he just transfers all his pieces to that side of the board and a huge attack starts brewing
e5 takes squares away from the pieces e4 is now for grabs knight f5 with pressure and it starts
coming atari tries to come in with rook c2 but knight d6 the whole point here is to lock in the
knight now another defender of the king has been removed bishop oh i skipped the head a little bit
bishop g3 comes back actually i think i skipped ahead on queen f6 let's go back here bishop g3
rook d8 bishop h4 and this move baits the move g5 so now you come back and you're threatening this
so black has to go here queen e4 and queen b7 look at that wins the tempo and throws the queen in on
the other side and oh that's just a nice move this move shows the big problem of black's position
you are now threatening rook takes knight removing the defender of the d8 rook
and if here just d7 and now you are threatening to take the knight and promote
so queen h5 he can do it now queen takes d1 sacking a rook and a beautiful move here king h2
and while you get to play rook b1 and say that you were a move away from defeating fabiano caruana
queen takes f7 rook g7 and queen f5 check and here tower resigned because if he brings the
king to the back rank we're just promoting and it's mate you can also promote to a rook
you can also play rookie 8 mate and uh well if you play king h8 i mean it's basically the same
story but it's it's a move different and you have a lot of mates to choose from actually that's not
me go here that's me do it this way but in the game we got queen f5 check ari antari resign the
game fabiano caruana wins and norway chess 2020 is over also big news today was the fact that the
feed a candidates are being postponed again and the world championship is being postponed again
i don't know what this means um but hopefully it means that we get a niche geary more on stream
because it's been three weeks and that bum needs to turn on the camera just kidding i'm a big fan
of a niche and we need to play some among us so if you're a fan of anish of semi get semi back
on camera get vidit get raja let's all play some among us or some four player chess or
whatever let's just have some fun best of wishes to all of you hope you have enjoyed these recap
videos and i'm very excited to make more content with the super hd thing we got going on here so
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