the chest-wall masters finals could not be more compelling as magnus carlsen and a nice giri
squared off after a week-long Twitter bromance with some ribbing and jabbing the first day
between the two ended with Magnus victorious and the Blitz and an each had to hold with the
black pieces to start the second match let's see if he was able to do so so a semi to rush
from Giri with the black pieces to kick things off now there's a lot of theory here and Linea
Dominguez from Cuban American Grandmaster plays this a lot and there's the theory goes after CD
595 there's this big sequence of trades and black basically says alright I'm gonna give you the two
central pawns I'll have this two-on-one on the Queen side I'm a bit more passive here than I
would normally like but you know I'll stabilize the position and I will just be okay you saw Gary
and Napo play this quite a lot so far so good the players up until move fifteen were in a position
with hundreds of games about 6070 games it was at this point that Magnus Carlsen uncorked the first
surprise rookie three which is always scary when you play Magnus the idea of rookie three is very
simple if you ever move this night the rook is gonna go here and there's gonna be an attack on
the king in this position Knight f6 is the only theoretical move and all the games go Queen d3
or Queen e2 defending the e4 pawn however this is where magnus carlsen began his impression of alpha
zero the move d5 a move that's never been played a move that black sufficiently covers and shouldn't
work and after a takes d5 he did not recapture but played the move e5 after the move Knight e4
attack the knight 94 hits the Queen the move Queen e1 played now normally when you sacrifice a pawn
in a certain position you see immediate benefit that's why things like gambits exist that's why
you know you develop an attack very quickly it's not so clear what the immediate repercussions are
well I'll show you the Queen opens up the rook against this Queen and rook takes e4 is a-brewing
threat which is actually why I need to play the move Queen c7 but this whole idea of sacrificing
a pawn to shut out an enemy piece right you shut out the bishop and then use your space advantage
and new piece positioning to defeat your opponent that's an alpha zero idea alpha zero and Leela
computers they do this a lot they sacrifice pawns they create wing attacks and this entire game from
here on out Magnus Carlsen basically made a nice Giri look like an amateur that's not an insult
you will literally see that that's exactly what happens when c7 he centralizes the knight to d4
right a six prevents the move Knight b5 and now the move that again the engine would play here
here h4 I should point out that it is impossible to take this pawn because the move f3 will hit
the knight and because of this pin you're not going to be able to save yourself from losing
material h4 takes away the g5 square and also creates a potential attack Magnus was still in
his preparation at this point with 17 minutes on the clock rook da f3 the other idea of this move
transferring the Queen out this way the knight is kicked out Knight c5 and now we see h5 Knight f5
and Queen g3 are coming we see 96 trying to trade Knight a5 now g6 is not possible because Queen to
g3 and after d4 this is the only move that Erie played basically the entire game which created any
sort of problem for Magnus and Magnus just played rook here and actually this move opens up the
LightSquared Bishop Knight c5 now relinquishing any defense here it takes takes takes Knight b3
Geary does the logical thing when you are losing you should try to get some pieces off the board
so that you can't be attacked so easily Magnus says I don't give a damn about this night I give
a damn about checkmate Queen g7 check doesn't do anything you're just gonna play king h2 so
g6 now he recaptures the knight this pawn is not you cannot take it because of the back rank mate
problem oh this is this Ruby d8 and they cannot escape so after eight takes b3 Geary said I have
been trading all the pieces let me trade all the pieces again but remember how I said that
taking this rook the back rank mate problem yeah who's the guard of that piece the Queen how do
you would deflect the Queen away from the rook pause the video if you'd like and give it a shot
okay well the only way to hit this queen with something that's not the rook is with
this queen and we would do that by playing the breakthrough movie six if the Queen takes the
Queen it's just me if the rook takes the rook you just take the Queen and so in the game on
each plate Queen c1 right in h2 and then decided to take on d4 and here Magnus once
again disregards that move entirely and plays the movie seven threatening to make a queen
unbelievable play from Magnus you cannot play rugby eight you cannot play rookie four and if
you play this you just get made it on the back rank and so if you played Queen c8 and after
Queen e5 not even taking the knight with the rook the rook with the night knots even taking
the rook with the night this move creates three threats Queen g7 nine eight six and promotion
and in this position Geary threw in one more check on h4 thinking that this capture would
occur and magnus carlsen in very alpha zero like fashion made the move King to g3 disregarding
that entirely and these three threats route loom three threats room three threats loom
and in each Giri resigned game one of their second mini match this is a very difficult
way to start off a mini match let me tell you especially after losing on day one and well
not to spoil anything but Magnus got off to a very very good start let me know your thoughts
on a game in the comments below and as always a question for you do you think that in each giri
is Magnus's biggest rival and if not what do you think it is I'll see you in the next video