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Magnus Carlsen wins longest world chess championship game of all time

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Re: Magnus Carlsen wins longest world chess championship game of all time

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Post by jpmoral »

ganeshkrishnan wrote: post #21
jjbinx007 wrote: post #5

Bit of a spoiler :( I prefer to watch analysis of games from YouTubers like Agadmator or Jerry from Chessnetwork and discover who the winner was by watching the game. I wonder if these long games are not particularly helpful. Most chess final games end in draws as players are reluctant to create an imbalance and instead play it safe. There tends to be more exciting games played in games with a shorter time limit. I'm…

You can watch the commentary by Judith Polgar. Of all the people I enjoy watching her live commentary because she has amazing insight into best moves and explains the reasoning behind it. For few of previous matches by Magnus, she found moves that even Magnus had missed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=crhU-pg7Rvw

Skip to 12:48 for the start of the commentary, 32:15 for the start of the game.

Re: Magnus Carlsen wins longest world chess championship game of all time

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Post by lvass »

jjbinx007 wrote: post #5

Bit of a spoiler :( I prefer to watch analysis of games from YouTubers like Agadmator or Jerry from Chessnetwork and discover who the winner was by watching the game. I wonder if these long games are not particularly helpful. Most chess final games end in draws as players are reluctant to create an imbalance and instead play it safe. There tends to be more exciting games played in games with a shorter time limit. I'm…

And unfortunate choice of news outlet. As a developer, I can't help mentioning how baffling it is part of the chess community keeps using a proprietary website filled to the brim on dark patterns while a better and free as in freedom alternative is available.

Re: Magnus Carlsen wins longest world chess championship game of all time

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Post by enneff »

typon wrote: post #24

I know that because Magnus won, people will be heaping praise on him. But it is incredible how well Ian kept playing engine move after engine move to defend in the end game, while trying to keep time. Unbelievable the level of chess that's being played here.

Nepo is fantastic. And of course Magnus is brilliant. The game is at an all time high imo.

Re: Magnus Carlsen wins longest world chess championship game of all time

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Post by throwaway81523 »

junar wrote: post #29
throwaway81523 wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

More or less yes, except it's 9 more games. The match ends if someone reaches 7.5 points, and Magnus now has 3, so with 9 more draws he wins the match by 7.5 to 6.5. Going into the last game the score is 7-6 so if Nepo wins then the match is tied and goes into tiebreaks. CORRECTION (see below): this was game 6, not game 5 (I had lost count), so current score is 3.5 to 2.5, and there are potentially 8 classical games…

This was Game 6. Magnus leads 3.5 to 2.5. There are only 8 more classical games remaining.

Oops, sorry, I just came back to fix that but you caught it first. I had somehow thought it was game 5.

Re: Magnus Carlsen wins longest world chess championship game of all time

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Post by jstx1 »

loh wrote: post #40
jstx1 wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That specific moment is actually pretty basic. You're right that it was a great match to watch though.

In hindsight, yes, it's basic for sure. But in the heat of the moment after 7 hours of thinking about nothing but chess, Ian obviously missed the potential fork and was visibly surprised that Magnus left his rook to be attacked.

He didn't miss it though - if he had, he would have taken the rook. No one at their level misses something like this in these games. This stuff is obvious to much much weaker players than Ian.

Re: Magnus Carlsen wins longest world chess championship game of all time

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Post by jacobolus »

jjbinx007 wrote: post #5

Bit of a spoiler :( I prefer to watch analysis of games from YouTubers like Agadmator or Jerry from Chessnetwork and discover who the winner was by watching the game. I wonder if these long games are not particularly helpful. Most chess final games end in draws as players are reluctant to create an imbalance and instead play it safe. There tends to be more exciting games played in games with a shorter time limit. I'm…

"It was the first decisive game in the classical rounds of a world championship in over five years."

I wonder if there’s some way other than time constraints to encourage higher variance moves.

Re: Magnus Carlsen wins longest world chess championship game of all time

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Post by tanmay7270 »

loh wrote: post #17
I_complete_me wrote: post #4

Well done to Magnus. To Ian. To the commentators. This was an unbelievable 'play' in three acts. A game for the chess books. Great quality match so far and I hope Ian comes back from this blow and makes a fight of it. I believe he will.

It was an absolutely incredible match to watch live. Historical. My jaw dropped when Magnus ignored his rook being attacked at the end in favor of the potential fork with his knight. It is ultimately what led to the sure win.

You mean Rf7 when he ignored the *pawn on e6 being attacked by the queen for a potential fork with the knight (Qxe6 Ng7+)?

Re: Magnus Carlsen wins longest world chess championship game of all time

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Post by jfengel »

initialized wrote: post #7
jfengel wrote: post #6

What does "first decisive game in the classical rounds of a world championship in over five years" mean?

lots of games at this level result in draws, this was a win.

That was the one thing I found distractingly wrong in Queen's Gambit. It completely glossed over the sheer number of draws. I'm a dilettante at chess, and even I know that.

(I gather that the number of draws may have been lower at the time, but they showed few or none.)

Re: Magnus Carlsen wins longest world chess championship game of all time

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Post by BurningFrog »

jpmoral wrote: post #41
ganeshkrishnan wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You can watch the commentary by Judith Polgar. Of all the people I enjoy watching her live commentary because she has amazing insight into best moves and explains the reasoning behind it. For few of previous matches by Magnus, she found moves that even Magnus had missed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=crhU-pg7Rvw Skip to 12:48 for the start of the commentary, 32:15 for the start of the game.

Note that this is 8h47m long video!
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