the chest will Masters concluded four days ago so you probably are fully aware of the results
but what you might be missing is the fact that today Aneesh and Magnus went at it on Twitter
again which is why I'm making this video we're gonna take a look at their final blitz game from
their first mini match very very instructive and we'll also talk a little bit about what the hell
is going on between these two so Magnus started out allowing an M so and then playing the move
a3 which is not an extremely popular selection against the nimzo-indian essentially making an
each clarify the situation in place c5 this is this is all standard but at this point in a 5+3
blitz game Magna is disconnected for almost two minutes and when he finally reconnected it was
something like five versus three and he played the theoretical move III so he gave in each two
minutes of time odds after the moves Knight c6 Bishop d3 d6 92 this is all again mainline
theory why is black spending so much time crawling with the pawns well he traded off his dark squared
bishop so he replaces all the pawns with dark squared pawns and also not to mention that the
guy that has the two bishops wants to open up the position so this is designed to shut down
the center but you know whichever way you take we're gonna have stability in the center of the
board now normally white castles here but in true magnus carlsen style he plays Knight to
g3 which is not a theoretical move actually I only saw three or four games in the data base
played with this move so Magnus takes the game out of theory and each does something principle
plays the move h5 which actually doesn't make sense because he wants to go here and this night
won't have a comfortable Square and we have h4 so he's preventing that move from happening we
need seven and now Magnus goes for a very and a standard idea when you have the two bishops you
try to open up the position for one of them so he pushes in the center forces this Knight back
it didn't have to go back there it could have maybe went to d8 and then plays efore now this
bishop is bad this bishop is good a niche here plays a maneuver that looks like it's not going
to make any sense which is Bishop g4 f3 Bishop CA why did he do that well he's essentially arguing
that this move is you know it's a big commitment for white and sometimes you can do that you can
make a move that induces a pawn move and then you back the bishop up to where it was in this
position it doesn't really do much of anything and Bishop g5 still happens Queen c7 and now you
might say well Magnus what the heck is this move you've got the two bishops this is the one bishop
you have that black does not have and you trade it what I always say don't give away the bishop
unless you have a really good reason right while in this position the really good reason is that
these pawns are now weaknesses Magnus Carlsen breaks a lot a big rule here he trades off his
dark squared bishop and yet has five pawns on light squares which doesn't make any sense but
he has an idea castles and the idea is to go f4 and use this open file use these open lines
in any closed position you are looking for a pawn break and the move pawn to f4 is extremely strong
Knight d7 on to f4 even though that will allow the night to get here he takes for a moment in
each has tripled pawns now Magnus does not take on f4 he instead goes for h5 because you know
the knight and the Queen obviously both defend that square so Knight takes pawn and now if you
give Magnus the opportunity he's gonna play rook f4 Knight f6 and win all the pots so Anish says
okay I'm gonna play this you can take with check but my King is pretty safe and I might actually
just use this to counter-attack you rook takes f4 for a brief moment Magnus is up to ponts okay but
on each has a plan Najee six that attacks the rook that attacks the pawn and now it
also frees up the Queen to get to e5 and again we see sort of the the Prada the problem with
white having a LightSquared Bishop but having all these pawns on light squares is that they eat you
know the e-file the hole all the dark squares are are up for grabs so Magnus here says well
exchange sacrifice time I get a lot of questions in you know what when do I sacrifice in exchange
well it depends I mean sometimes you sacrifice in exchange when you're killing off your opponent's
most active piece and that's exactly what he did that night and now this position black has
no active pieces left rooks are endgame pieces and right now blacks rooks are completely out of the
game it so is White's Bishop but at least white is going to be the one bringing the route to the
party faster than the rook on h8 or the rook on a a the Magnus plays g4 the idea of this move is
to play g5 h6 and basically lock in that knight on f6 forever and you can't play route g8 because the
knight controls so here in each plays the only move in the position that's basically hope you
know giving him any hope how does he activate one of his rooks try to find it give you five seconds
okay a five that's the only way and it looks pretty ridiculous but you have to play rock a six
like that's the only way I mean honestly it is it is quite literally the only the only
way because white is just too quick here he's got too many passed pawns he's just got way too much
initiative so he plays a five hey so g5 rook a six rook b1 and remember that question about when
do you sacrifice in exchange well sometimes you can do it to kill off your opponent's most active
peace and the bind on your position right rook takes f6 fantastic move right on time now the h5
pawn is hanging and he takes it Magnus here okay now we have a rook and Bishop endgame and white
us up upon his pawn structure does not leave a very good impression but still there is you
know there's some hope for four magnets to break through here so what do you do in the endgame when
you have rook and Bishop versus rook and Bishop look for the weaknesses we're gonna be five okay
and each goes for the weaknesses as well this is one of them this is another one rook h3 pounds are
attacking you just cannot defend all of this okay Bishop e2 he takes rook takes a five can't take
the pawn but he can maybe play this move he don'ts played b6 but what does he do plays rook III fork
bishop moves out to age five and attacks f7 and here Anish actually missed White's main idea
it's not actually to take this pawn that was a smokescreen and he thought that after takes takes
he would be okay the actual problem is this Bishop rook a8 and all of a sudden it is impossible for
black to defend that bishop there's all sorts of ideas coming like this d6 d7 so watch this king c7
d6 trying to deflect the king away from the bishop King D 7 you don't have this because the rook is
covering so he takes rook g4 check the idea of this check is to force the King to the F file play
here and then win this pawn so King h2 for anyway King g3y King g3 because after this move bring
the bishop back and there again because black is so passive he can't defend the position properly
so rook F for Bishop g4 and now you have to give away the bishop so when you have rook and Bishop
and some pawns versus rook in some pawns the you know usually if you're the guy with the bishop you
should really do your hardest to preserve one of the pawns his rook and Bishop versus rook
is incredibly difficult to win well let's see if he was able to do that you know Anisha took the
pawn now he's got one pot left this should be 7 roots III King moves up and each pushes this pawn
bishop comes back to centralise he's looking to play King f5 rookie six picked this pawn up it's
very good that Magnus is still defending this pawn rook c1r ok 5 heading off the King rook
f1 ok so there's always threats in pin even in the endgame there's still some tactics king g3
to avoid rook F for Bishop f3 and now instead of E 4 which would hang a rook Anish centralizes the
rook now cuts everything off route d5 is not a problem anymore and this pawn is about to
promote so Magnus brought back the king with King f2 in this position a nice giri had an absolutely
just an unbelievable defensive resource which is so difficult to see so so difficult although the
the way that I can break this down for you is that you you've got to look to you know use what you're
strongest in and he's got a passed pawn in this endgame and he could have tried to push it and
make a queen he should have played c3 the reason he played reub d3 in the game he should have
played c3 there was an absolutely unbelievable resource and here it is so first things first
if King III just c2 and rook a 6 and you can stop this pawn but black is gonna win you're a 3 pawn
and then we know that rook and Bishop versus rook will probably be drawn although it's very
difficult ruk a6 is the more challenging move now watch this white wants to set up where he gets his
rook here right so King D 7 now if rooks ecigs black has efore so he has to play here and then
there and then there now watch this in c7 Bishop b5 black to move and draw again take your time
blacks a move and draw with rooks see foot with Robin I basically just spoiled it but it's okay
I already gave you enough time rooks c4 quadruple exclam and you can't go here look at this takes
promotion but it's not waiting for black because there's Bishop d5 and then after this trade of
everything obviously the players will trade off pawns and it will be a drop an astounding route
move rook c4 which in each missed in time trouble and the game ended with Magnus just bringing his
King slowly toward the pawn winning the e pawn defending his a pawn and king c3 is coming and in
he's just resigned here because he's gonna lose the pawn and rook Bishop and pawn versus rook
is just it's a very very different story well an unbelievable game from Magnus Carlsen this
did seal him the victory in the first mini match there's another video that I that I posted their
first game of the second mini match and there's going to be a third one coming but take a look at
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