everybody to the second day of norway chess a live super grand master tournament with six players
involved double round robin's style uh i've talked about the format already in part one but i'll
say it again here each player gets two hours to begin the game no bonus time until the 40th move
and if the game ends in a draw they sit right back down with the same colors 10 minutes for
white seven minutes for black draw odds so black draws the game black actually wins
and that's the way the tournament works and that's the way the standings are counted up
today we begin with levon aronian versus arientari it's also levon's birthday so yeah also the
title of the video and the thumbnail will become relevant in a second so we get uh a rulopez king's
pawn knight f3 knight c6 with bishop b5 and we get a a6 bishop back to a4 knight f6 and castles
this is considered the main line uh there are so many things that can happen here that white can do
and black can do and black can choose which setup to play so i'm going to basically fast forward to
move eight for black whether or not black goes d6 or d5 determines whether it's a martial and the
marshall variation is d5 sacrificing the e5 pawn and c6 so you'll notice that this pawn has been
given away and the way normally this is played is black solidifies the knight puts the bishop
like this tries to play queen to h4 the bishop is active the second bishop is active the queen
is coming this way and this is considered the martial and it's considered very decent for black
very good for black the problem in this case is that atari is playing this against levon aronian
levon aronian's playing white and levon aronian has played the marshal himself for 20 years
so good luck and levon plays rookie one now normally the big decision here that white takes
is where to put this deep on d3 or d4 and then he plays rookie one he just doesn't do that and now
we see why he prevents queen h4 entirely he delays the move uh queen h4 he delays the move sorry d4
but prevents the queen from coming here natural development and now this and essentially if
aronian's able to glue his position shut and not lose on this side of the board
then he'll just be winning he's just up a pawn these pawns are overextended in the future
he will play this very important pawn move that which activates his rook and damages the structure
and if these pawns are damaged the knight is going to be under attack and so on so queen g6 um knight
d2 queen drops back to g2 from where it pressures the knight and it's just safe i mean there's no
there's nowhere else better for the queen to be and queen h5 and at this point it was very i mean
it seemed very obvious to us that lavon would be playing the move a4 he obviously didn't like
something because instead of a4 he played a move which absolutely baffled me and that move was h4
and then a few moves later he played a4 anyway and that is why we have the thumbnail that we have and
that is why the crab is mentioned it took levon 22 moves but he's trying to do the crab on ari antari
this move i can't quite explain to you uh i think he played h4 because he didn't want to get hit
with this where he would have to put his queen on h1 i think that's why he did it now bishop h3 is
no longer possible the other one just makes more sense um and now tari plays bishop f3 levon throws
in this move because you can't take the queen i would take with check and even though it's not
mate i would be winning way too many pieces here so queen comes out and parks itself on
h2 and despite the really awkward positioning here of the queen lavon's actually completely
fine um he breaks in on that side he trades some pieces down trades the queens trades like this
and now this cannot be taken because if it were to be taken you could pause here but uh
if you're watching live you can't really pause so just take a deep breath
how does white win here rook to e1 and you are uns this is unstoppable f3 is coming
there's nothing you can do to protect your rook i'm just gonna win your bishop
because if rook e7 f3 anyway that's not actually protecting the rook because it's pinned so
rook would take and yeah rookie rookie 1 is a devastating quiet move and it makes all of this
work and then lavon makes glues his shot trades and what do you know about opposite colored bishop
end games right we know that if material is more or less the same if it was just a bishop end game
probably the chances are for black to hold it but here white has pawn up more space more active
pieces no weaknesses and black potentially has four weaknesses that could arise in the end game
and white has a protected pass pawn now watch as lavon very easily advances his king brings the
rook back to kick out the bishop with the move b3 forces the bishop to go to f1 gives a check
plants his bishop on this diagonal so the king can always come this way rook takes g3
is not really a problem because king to f2 and so bishop g2 was played in the game king d4 it's
still not a problem because even if this were to happen you just push the bishop on this diagonal
the past pawn and rook 8 is basically mate or it's unstoppable you're just going to promote the pawn
and so instead we got rook c6 and he transferred the rook over pushed the pawn played the very nice
move rook f7 and if rook takes pawn takes and the king is geometrically prevented
from stopping the pawn rook f7 was played oriantari resigned the game flawless game very
nice game from lavon on his birthday kudos to him he gets three points for the win not one because
as i said there's an armageddon segment so he gets three points for winning in a slow game very nice
win uh from lavon you could skip ahead to the magnus section not on twitch you can't on twitch
you can't but on youtube magnus will be covered later because he played two games spoiler alert
uh but the other game that was a very long game was a game between fabiano carawana uh and young
shishtav duda it was a slav defense an exchange slav which got to a pretty theoretical position
early uh the opening not incredibly important but whoops i just spoiled the entire game
but let's go to this position first in the opening duda could have developed his dark squared bishop
and he didn't instead he took on e2 and then did it and then just suffered the entire game
the only thing that wine has here is the bishop pair the position is completely
similar otherwise the structure is the same the pieces are more or less the same
and notice how in the slav defense he uses the open file advances on that side of the board
puts the rook puts the knight and duda was backing up the entire game at this point right around here
i'll say right here this is move 25 duda at this point has like five minutes to make 15 moves
something completely disgusting like terrible time trouble and carawana just brings in his pieces
and trades and plays this nice idea queen c6 and if you take i'm gonna take with my
b-pawn i now have a pass pawn before it's just frozen so he goes here and
take take take gets rid of two pieces and the engine was trying to figure out um
whether or not this is completely winning for white and normally two pieces
for the uh for the rook should be good very good but with the symmetrical structure and
no imbalance of pawns it's not so simple but karwana began the process
so first i will just take you to mu 40 this is move 40 41. now the players have a 10 second bonus
but they were both below one minute this game went for another 50 moves okay so we trade one pun
then we offer a second pawn trade because we need to chip away at black's defenses so we do
this okay now knight c6 is a nice idea can't take the bishop because a fork transfers his knight to
the outpost right very solid position for black but the pieces are far enough and you have enough
material that you're gonna create weaknesses and attack them and that's what he does he creates one
more target right and then fast forward to move 69 and he plays this nice move e takes d5 e takes d5
so black is left with three weaknesses now this end game during the course of the broadcast broke
the engine cessy was saying this is plus eight white is completely winning but if you looked
at ceci it didn't give you any winning plan black is in time to just sit back and defend everything
black can defend this this and this with no problem and you'll see that you'll you'll
see as duda just sits back and his pawns can't get taken he's stopping knight f7 if knight f3
oh sorry if knight f3 rook g7 there is no way to protect it was saying plus eight saying some stuff
no no but then dude did some crazy stuff bro he brought his rook back but then the second time he
did not bring his rook back he put his rook this way and he got locked out his rook got locked out
his rook got locked out and now you're just going here and you're winning the b6 pun
just i mean great he loses the b6 pawn and now it's winning because the pawn is promoting and
that's exactly what happened i mean yes black also has his own pawn but it's it's never promoting
and the game ended right here or v8 queen is now no longer stoppable
like two games in a row due to loses to a promotion and now duda has zero out of six
potential points and fabiano caruana is six six six points two wins in classical it's a very nice
win from fabi start to finish cruise control but the engine was was going insane it was like saying
that this is completely winning but it couldn't do anything to me and yeah i mean wow just just
rook on g1 and and and just got locked out lost the spawn tough position to defend i
understand with no time but it is what it is and fabiano wins now magnus carlson alireza ferrugia
this is the classical game i did say they played two which means you know the result of the first
game but let's see what happened so magnus carlsen goes for an exchange queen's gambit
declined against ferugia plays a classical way and you'll see why this this way is considered
not super accurate because what white does is white will put the bishop on d3 then play
f3 rotate the bishop back this way and try to push the e pawn forward so we get this
this is this is the way it's played and instead of playing the more natural knight to f3
you'll play f3 and bishop f2 this is the way the exchange queen's gambit decline is played if you
want a little bit more of an advanced lesson in the queens again but declined this is how it goes
and then you try to push for e4 but ali reza went for a queen side attack with b5 b4 c6 c5 and right
here could have even continued with c4 and this is just chaos but magnus planted the knight on f5
and then this trait occurred and had some nagging pressure alersa has this isolated pawn um
you know the d4 square is uh somewhere where magnus plants his knight
but for the most part ali raza defended very well later in the game came a trait of queens
and this cool idea from alireza gluing this bishop glue which glues this pawn and this pawn
and the open a file oops the open a file targeting the a2 pawn magnus parked the bishop back on b1 to
defend and then later played this move b3 locking his pawn structure the players shuffled around
a little bit not too much occurred no trades magnus began expanding on the side of the board
there was one tactical moment pointed out here that alireza could have played bishop takes e3
a stunning little move the rooks see each other so if you take this bishop i take the
rook but i would go here check here here but this position is just bad for black
despite black being up a pawn his structure is frozen i will go here and try to gobble
so this is not so good and instead alireza himself later played a nice idea rook c2
looks like just a loss of a rook but trying to open up counter play like this
magnus instead gave away his own pawn but because the pawns are so bad for black despite being a
pawn up he's unable to do anything all the pieces get simplified and a few moves later
the players agree to a draw in this position rook and three rook and three which means
we go to armageddon magnus carlsen has white he has 10 minutes alireza has
black he has seven minutes on move 41 they will get one second of bonus time
until then there is no bonus here we go another queen's gambit declined and exchanged variation
with a solid position for black this time magnus goes for queen c2 and knight f3
alireza jumps into the center with knight to e4 trying to trade some pieces
and magnus castles long this is not very good however magnus is fully aware that the
queen's gambit declined as an extremely solid weapon and you're not just gonna break it by
well being solid and trying to beat the guy on time it's just not going to happen
so magnus sacrifices his g pawn for the e pawn and plays knight to g3 the problem
is that you actually have zero attack and instead he blundered the move queen to f6
he extended in the center and now two of his pawns are about to be hanging
so he sacrifices one via onpoissant you don't know what i'm sometimes i get asked these questions in
youtube videos they're like how did that happen amphison is a rule of chess so he's blockades this
pawn and then plays rook g1 and knight h5 that's his idea but alireza snuffs that out real quick
and at this point it's move 26 magnus has no time advantage anymore it's completely the same
about three minutes per player and the position is minus six i repeat the position is minus six
because alireza's completely winning he has a passport in the file these pawns ain't nothing
so rookie one king to h8 rook d3 rook comes in and right here the big moment
the capture on f3 and for reasons i cannot explain alireza did not take take and take this pawn
with check i don't know what he missed i don't know what he saw or didn't see after rook to e2
he he can just go back to h3 attacking the queen but he has a very cool move queen takes knight
and then if takes take the queen and then if this you have this and the end game is just winning
for him i mean it's it's just a winning end game oh sorry sorry uh you would you can also go here
which is kind of cool and uh there's this
and uh it's just over because black is winning by one pawn has two connected pawns on the
queen side uh and this this is just lost yes the rook is hanging but you can move it um i
see tier zoo in the chat i'm gonna break the fourth wall here it's here so we're recording
for youtube right now youtubers go check out tierzoo if you don't already for some reason
not gonna talk about myself but um instead here's what happened he played knight takes g3
the players traded a bunch of pieces rook and five versus rook in five right
king g8 king a3 at this point magnus has like 20 seconds but it's move 36 so we fast forward to
move 40 both players have a bonus second and about 10 seconds on the clock here we go you guys ready
king c4 okay rook g4 king d3 and here ali raza was winning he had a nice tactical shot c5
so it's very rare that in end games you have tactical shots but this is winning
because there's nothing white can do it's paralysis if you take on c5 bc5 and it's
wang which is the term which means that no matter what you move you lose something it's
a ridiculous position actually you can't push this because i take you can't move your king anywhere
unless you go here and then if king here i play the stunning move king to f5 i force your rook
to move and the root goes here takes this pawn is stopped this pawn is going the game is over
and i mean it i'm not saying that ale russell should have seen it i'm saying the post game
analysis shows you this it's a really nice idea just c5 but ali reza can win this game
by drawing it because it's the armageddon so he goes here he goes rookie three comes back
rook f3 magnus is going in with the rook c5 now takes takes rook here and ali reza lost on time
and um yeah slammed the table with his fist and that's that and that's why i'm
getting some deja vu the second time high stakes speed game against magnus carlson over the board
and he loses on time again in fact it's it's the last time they played a speed game over the board
this same thing happened because all their games have been online this year because of coronavirus
wow that sums up ferocious last few months in 2020 that is astounding
bomber but he gets one point for his effort magnus one and a half and after two days of
the norway chess two people uh sorry no no not two people two people have four points
and are ahead of magnus carl said who only has three but fabiano carawana is on fire he has six
out of six two classical game wins duda and tarry both oh for two in the classical portion looking
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until next time till tomorrow be safe be good hope you're enjoying the tournament so far