Carlsen–Karjakin World Championship
chessgames.com
Carlsen–Karjakin World Championship
1–10 of 88 posts
Re: Carlsen–Karjakin World Championship
#2... in style with a queen sac on the final move, a mate in 8 while under threat of mate. Bravo Magnus!
Re: Carlsen–Karjakin World Championship
#3... in style with a queen sac on the final move, a mate in 8 while under threat of mate. Bravo Magnus!
The queen sac itself was a mate in two, which is pretty simple even in a rapid game. However he did need to see the mate in 8 before committing to Rc8+.
In the end Magnus was much stronger in the rapid games. He was winning in three of the four even though he let one slip to a draw.
Re: Carlsen–Karjakin World Championship
#4... in style with a queen sac on the final move, a mate in 8 while under threat of mate. Bravo Magnus!
The queen sac itself was a mate in two, which is pretty simple even in a rapid game. However he did need to see the mate in 8 before committing to Rc8+. In the end Magnus was much stronger in the rapid games. He was winning in three of the four even though he let one slip to a draw.
Game two of the rapids playoff was a fine ending by Karjakin, a stalemate after sacking everything. But MC the WC was much stronger at rapid.
Re: Carlsen–Karjakin World Championship
#5... in style with a queen sac on the final move, a mate in 8 while under threat of mate. Bravo Magnus!
The queen sac itself was a mate in two, which is pretty simple even in a rapid game. However he did need to see the mate in 8 before committing to Rc8+. In the end Magnus was much stronger in the rapid games. He was winning in three of the four even though he let one slip to a draw.
[deleted]
Re: Carlsen–Karjakin World Championship
#6... in style with a queen sac on the final move, a mate in 8 while under threat of mate. Bravo Magnus!
The queen sac itself was a mate in two, which is pretty simple even in a rapid game. However he did need to see the mate in 8 before committing to Rc8+. In the end Magnus was much stronger in the rapid games. He was winning in three of the four even though he let one slip to a draw.
[deleted]
Re: Carlsen–Karjakin World Championship
#7I whipped up a little demo illustrating Carlsen's decisive rapid game 3. It transposes the move sequence to show white's 13-move opening (Karjakin) followed by Carlsen's 13-move response as black, and so on through the game - using the longest possible sequences consistent with legal positions from the original game.
Re: Carlsen–Karjakin World Championship
#8After all the draws, it was nice to see some actual wins.
For those less familiar with chess, the final game was kind of fun. Carlsen's final play was to sacrifice his queen to draw the king into a trap, when Karjakin was one free move from putting Carlsen into an inextricably losing situation.
Re: Carlsen–Karjakin World Championship
#9... in style with a queen sac on the final move, a mate in 8 while under threat of mate. Bravo Magnus!
The queen sac itself was a mate in two, which is pretty simple even in a rapid game. However he did need to see the mate in 8 before committing to Rc8+. In the end Magnus was much stronger in the rapid games. He was winning in three of the four even though he let one slip to a draw.
Although it is mate in two, the two mating nets are somewhat unusual. On the contrary, the variant with the mate in 8 is a lot more typical because the light squares are all yours.
Re: Carlsen–Karjakin World Championship
#10After all the draws, it was nice to see some actual wins. For those less familiar with chess, the final game was kind of fun. Carlsen's final play was to sacrifice his queen to draw the king into a trap, when Karjakin was one free move from putting Carlsen into an inextricably losing situation.
I don't think that's accurate: Carlsen could have gotten a winning advantage just by defending everything with Qg3. On chess24's broadcast, Svidler even thought Carlsen might not go for the mate just because Qg3 was safely good enough.