gentlemen i present to you a day in chess history and i'd like to apologize before i actually jump
into looking at any of the games there was no way that i could avoid spoiling the result uh in the
thumbnail in the title and so on today in norway chess 2020 magnus carlson and young schuster of
duda uh had a game magnus of course hasn't lost in over two years and dude is having a disaster of a
tournament let's see what happens in their game and one just more one more thing they actually
have to play again tomorrow because of the way the system of double round robin works duda has white
and he plays e4 c6 from magnus carl khan baby best opening ever d45 and again goes for the classical
i don't know what dude is doing he hasn't looked at my openings course i guess but e5 is winning
it wins by force that's all there is to it and bishop f5 h4 you win every game and that's it but
we get knight takes uh d takes c4 knight takes e4 and rather than going for the classical variation
magnus goes for the immediate trait of knights knight f6 gf6 is branched in larson e takes f6
it is atari tower and now the main line setup is actually not for white to put the knight on f3
but to play c3 queen c2 bishop d3 and knight to e2 which is exactly what he does and now
uh again this wasn't taken because it was a check now black plays the move uh
h5 this has become the main line black used to play h6 g6 all these different things to stop this
and then it turned out that actually you can play like this because you're a super grandmaster
and people just move the pawns up two squares and they don't really you know care about the safety
of their king at the same time the point is to go here and prevent this knight from moving to um
to g3 uh and then you can play queen c7 and also prevent the knight from moving to f4
so we get bishop e3 long castle and b5 uh this is a very bold move because on the one hand you
you look like you're attacking this side of the board on the other hand after d5 you have some
serious problems a lot of you talk about making videos well twitch talks about twitch stuff keck w
am i right um but youtube's always like i get like you know make videos about pawn play and i did you
should check out the chess tips playlist this is a very interesting pawn break uh where if you take
you weaken your b-pawn and then my rook is opened up and i just kind of x-ray
the entire row here at the same time if you play c5 which is what he did you chucked this pawn
and magnus was basically trying to argue that well that helps me open the b file and he was
right actually he played rookie seven which is a fascinating move unpinning his knight moved his
knight and then brought his rook while dude is i don't know dancing around with a horse over here
so now he has doubled uh double rooks and here due to play the move b3 which looks incredibly
natural like if you play bishop to b3 black plays a5 a4 digs away your bishop from the defense
b3 is the only move but duda spent like 30 something minutes on it uh and at that point
psychologically you were like all right looks like looks like this is magnus's game to win
he's really gonna find a way here played rook b4 and then sacrificed the rook uh with the intention
to play rook b4 again but that's why bishop d2 was played activated as bishop and dude is under
some serious pressure here but here magnus had to do something all right he had to do something
you had to play knight to g4 f3 and take
and the point is that if the queen takes then you have knight to f2 and you fork if the rook
takes you have knight to f2 and you fork and if you have f takes then you have bishop to e5
um and the reason you don't have knight f2 in this position is it's not a fork
that's the difference is that every time another piece arrived there it was a fork now you go
bishop here rook b2 is coming and you're just gonna get completely steamrolled down the b file
and the knight can jump in at any moment um so this position is absolutely dominant the structure
is good for white but it's not doing anything and your king is very weak but he played h4 the
beginning of problems h3 stopping anything from coming to g4 knight g6 rookie three excellent move
as hikara was saying during the broadcast uh this is to transfer the rook over white is up material
so white should want to simplify the position and trade pieces get it to a winning end game knight
f4 and now uh duda starts to actually attack on that side so he's got plans on both sides g4
and bishop g6 if we got and peasant we would have had fg3 maybe g4 maybe rook f1 so magnus
didn't want that and instead backed up and now the move of the game really the move of the game
um and you can you know you can pause if you'd like but king d1 ikaru was so shocked
when king d1 was played uh i i mean and for good reason uh the point of this move is that
you want to play rook b3 but you can't because knight e2 check and the knight goes to d4
and so king d1 in the middle of the game magnus immediately falls apart f5 and after takes takes
takes bishop h5 f3 he has no counter play anymore he's still able to create some with the move queen
to a1 but bishop c3 queen sneaks around to the g file and here due to later trap it looks like
the the knight can't be i mean the knight can't be taken because of this and it looks like white is
in trouble because black is gonna get this pawn he like brings in his queen hits this gets this
rook b1 is a problem but there's a stunning move here queen c2 which doesn't look so stunning at
first essentially again you just want a queen trade and then you're completely winning you
have a past pawn you have extra material these pieces are locked out of the game
but magnus played queen takes c4 and now there is a beautiful tactical continuation that can
win white the game again you can pause here uh if you're watching on twitch you you can't pause i'm
sorry i'm just gonna have to uh bear with me for a second but you guys probably saw the game anyway
this is why you always have to look for checks check check again rook taking was not a check
but the whole point is you get a second check and now you only have one check actually you have two
you also have discovery check but that's not the right check you want to move this bishop
and win the queen with a discover check but look at this rookie chain stunning and bishop takes g7
king g7 queen c4 you're up a queen gonna get the pawns you're gonna promote and you win
and that's it rookie h check and it's the beginning of the end magnus chucks a rook
because otherwise there was no rookie chain then he takes a few pawns and duda runs this king in
this position there was something also incredibly beautiful if knight d3 king b191 you don't take
this instead you play this the stunning rook h8 king h8 and queen h6 this was beautiful king g8
and queen g7 and you can't you obviously can't take because the bishop would have been pinning
the king so this tactical motif rook h8 just was the end and magnus didn't resign for a while but
slowly duda got there uh duda allowed a little bit of counter play shuffled around and then
finally did the right thing by sacrificing the rook for the bishop this is the simplest
and this is a lot easier than trying to fight against the bishop standing in the center
um and you know he he picked up some pawns had to walk his king it was it was a long process
but here queen h7 is winning because if the trade happens just king to b5 and the pawn is promoting
because the rook monitors the other pawn but in the game we got king g4 and now a deflection
check rook e4 from the queen if takes then takes it's gg and magnus carlsen after rook to e4
resigned the game thus ending his over 120 game undefeated streak in classical chess
classical chess he has lost in blitz and rapid but stunning duda who had lost three times in
classical and once in armageddon beats magnus carlsen and tomorrow they have to play again
today we had two other games and that's a bit of a spoiler because that means there was no
armageddons it means that there was two decisive games on other boards but i'm not going to tell
you uh what went where first let's take a look at uh farouja versus tari tari obviously not
having a great tournament but did beat duda in the armageddon and farouz is having a great tournament
i mean he's actually just straight up having a good tournament like my man beat lavon
my man beat fabian armageddon he beat duda he took magnus to armageddon and should have won i
mean he's doing great so this was an italian it was a very very very slow joko piano with c3 d3
um a little bit of a modern twist with a4 this is this is kind of like the way they play it now um
they trade and then they play b4 i really like this
from black actually it's it's really interesting you try to play like knight h5 and rook g6
um and this was just a long maneuvering game so first kind of central break of pawns black
doesn't take because he doesn't want to surrender control of uh of the center now b5 another break
you're trying to make progress on the queen side and black is trying to make progress on the king's
side with his pieces he's maneuvering his pieces um so knight f1 and now we have a trade opening up
this now a very nice move from our uh from uh ali reza taking away the b6 square from this bishop
and the bishop also is staring into a rock solid center so that bishop is really out of the game
atari is trying to kind of offset that by attacking but he's forgetting that um he's uh
he's playing without a piece and in taking the pawn in the center he allows this transfer of
activity to the queen side uh and he chucks a pawn which alireza doesn't take because he he actually
wants to keep the positional bind here and now he takes it by forcing the rook to go backwards first
obviously if tari had gone to e7 he could have taken or he could have continued on with rook b7
batara says no i insist take my pawn knight comes back and now queen b7 not all queen
trades are the same um i always say you don't want to trade the queens when you're attacking a king
but this queen trade removes just an extremely important guard of this side of the board it
would allow the rook to come in and alireza just does it he goes straight for the queen trade
now this is a weakness this is a weakness and the bishop is terrible and he just goes to that
side of the board he just goes to that side of the board immediately when the pawn is pushed he
takes advantage it's like grappling you know it's like um a guy you know isn't uh is it a
bad spot so he tries to move to a different spot and you take advantage of that movement
you just immediately take advantage of the movement opening up the bishop to take this
and then that is literally the reason uh that alireza went on to get a winning rook end game
it's because of this pawn and even though this pawn is going to be lost he invests fully in
that one and the passive nature here is what gets him the victory the king march the king march the
king march the king march and rook a6 and the problem is that even though it's three on three
because the rook can never move you win so some movement of pawns alireza baits king takes a7
trades the rooks and this is it the game is over on king to c6 because the king is being shouldered
or boxed out and something like this will happen king b and notice it's not king c5 although king
c5 is probably also winning it's more of a matter that i want i want you guys to understand that
in in king and pawn end games it can very well have to do with one square there will be another
end game where this doesn't work the reason this is winning is because you can go here you can
still go in and shoulder the king at a certain point if you just keep marching to the right you
don't have this ability anymore because you're not actually going to win this pawn you need to make
the diagonal movement at one of these two points to go for the base of the operations okay you have
to go to the base of the operations oftentimes to then move backwards um now same can be said
for taking down the mafia you can't just get to the head you know you got to take out little
so you got to hit the base although i guess for mafia would be in reverse you want to take out
the head that really is whatever bad analogy i'm not really good at mafia analogies but
alireza gets another win over tari uh and with this win he gets
what up to 10 points for the tournament because of the scoring system because he gets three points
for winning in classical incredible and the last game of the round between fabi and aronian this
one was was was amazing so it was a nimso uh and you know you can't go e4 because the pin
uh so you play f3 to try to play this black hits the center we get d5 we get b5 crazy
already there's there's a lot of pawn tension obviously the knight is unable to take but you
want to take so you lose a guard here e4 d6 black is like bro i don't care take it
bishop d2 a trade sends the bishop back notice that black traded the dark
squared bishop but has a large very large uh central kind of uh base of dark squared pawns
knight e2 knight h5 the whole point of this is to play the move
f5 and again shattering the center before white is able to castle and uh black's not
worried about rook on i5 a lot of people during the broadcast what about g4 but you could under
remember this bishop has no guard so rook f3 yeah but levi what about bishop g2 okay and uh
i don't know this is uh this is losing and that's sort of a problem you know losing so instead we
got queen d2 and long castles but aronian still has a very clear target now queen queen coming
this way so king b1 takes a pawn knight to c1 offers a trade of bishops and takes the pawn on d6
knight f6 and queen c6 this attacks the rook the rook has to go to e8 this opens an attack on the
e3 bishop and we get bishop back to f2 knight b8 queen b5 going for a trait of queens by the way
if you missed what happened there c4 closed the door on the bishop but the rook now hits this way
right um like this and now rook d4 rook c8 and b3 this is a very difficult position because c3
is about to happen and then black will bring in the knight and then black will bring in
the second knight you've already got a rook just staring down at your king very very very
bad position so we get b3 and fabi sacrifices in exchange and his logic was that i have an
extra pawn i have five on four i've got bishop pair i'm gonna bring my rook i'm gonna be fine
aronian says we'll see about that rookie five rook d6 knight back to e8 kicks out the rook
knight c7 begins the transfer this knight moved across the country knight b5 and planted itself on
a3 sometimes you got to do that you know sometimes things aren't going so well in life you gotta move
career shift you know lose a friend gain a friend gain some experiences i didn't know that we
were gonna get philosophical here but don't be afraid of change okay don't be afraid of change
bishop a6 rook d8 trading a rook again just like in the duda game simplifying king c1
uh he doesn't take on a7 because rook a5 would be a problem although now that i'm looking at this
i guess you would win the night but probably there is this that's the problem and then
wait a second then there's this
but then there's this then there's this but then there's this then there's this
but then there's probably this aha and then if you like move your bishop it's check check
mate okay got it but then there's that so yeah king c1 bishop a7 didn't happen
knight e6 bishop d3 knight c5 beautiful game from levon levon kind of demonstrated
that you could take one step backwards to take like seven step forward in this game
another simplification rook d5 and comes back to d7 and a5 kg8 and it's time to
first of all play g5 which clamps down on white's pawn structure very important
because white could have just started pushing all his pawns so he clams down and again reroutes the
knight this knight is like an among us imposter pretending to be a white knight on b1 um and then
just starts to you know kill off the crewmates on a2 and even though fobby did make his king
all the way in i mean all his pawns are going to be lost so rook d6 sorry rook f3 bishop d6
gives a check takes another pawn and goes for the other pawn and the game ends with him
killing off everybody uh one crewmate remains but one crewmate does not win against one imposter or
two imposters i don't know how many there are for black but a very nice win from lavon aronian who
also is having a really really good tournament uh he is actually winning the tournament he has
11 points now after five rounds ferruja has 10 points and magnus is in third with nine after
the first half of the tournament now tomorrow the second round robin begins all the games
from the first half but flipped colors so tomorrow we will start with duda having black magnus will
have white very curious to see what magnus plays against duda and so on and so forth all right
hopefully that uh just about wraps things up for today crazy that we witnessed chess history uh
i'll be signing off i will see you in tomorrow's recap video and you should definitely check out
the video that i posted today where at the time of recording it would be yesterday you haven't
already done that and the website and links in the chat in the in the chat in the description
be nice be safe have a good weekend and i'll see you tomorrow