The World Chess Champion 2016 The Winner

Not too shabby 🙂

Nice groupies greenpawn.

This one had me questioning my sanity:



Per GP, "Now [6...] pawn to g6 loses..." but 6...g5 draws. However,



For a minute I thought there was some miracle win for White with the P on h6 instead of h5! I'd never caught a mistake in a GP column until now.

Hi Big Dogg.

I had better nip in correct it. I was doing the blog at the same time watching
the live event. I had it all posted within 30 minutes of Carlsen's Queen sac.

I had made up my mind that g5 was the only move and then I checked and
wrote up the missed win and then the next game had started. Quite a night.

EDIT:

Corrected . and I've given you the credit Big Dogg - thanks.

A 6 minute piece on Magnus here:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p04hqrpj

Hi 64,

in response to another thread.

"I wouldn't go that far, there were multiple continuations after Marshall's crazy looking
move, all winning but not all led to forced mate. In Magnus' example after Qh3 there
were only 2 continuations, both of which were mate in 1. "

It was a nice touch to end the match, but I wouldn't exactly hail it as 'move of the century'."
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Beauty as always is in the eye of the beholder but the 'combination'
is much deeper than a mate in 3. It's actually a mate in 8.

After Karjakin played 49...Kh7 Carlsen played 50.Qh6+ within two seconds. Karajkin resigned right away.

Carlsen did have a think before playing 49.Rc8+ obviously thinking here.


49.Rc8+ was 49...Bf8+ a move. and Carlsen had to see that line.

Here is the video prior to Rc8+

YouTube

Carlsen eyes are not looking at bottom right corner where he is facing mate in one.
He looking at the queenside where the Black King goes. He has already seen that
if the King goes to kh7 the Queen sac mates. He was working out the Bf8 defence.




Then we look at Marshall's win which was not a World Championship
decider but round 6 of tournament where Marshall finished. 6th.
Also note Marshall is a piece up.


23....Qg3 Beautiful.

Originally posted by greenpawn34
A 6 minute piece on Magnus here:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p04hqrpj

muchas gracias. i still prefer fischer's insanity

The link to Peter Svidler just before the Queen Sac.

YouTube&t=301m23s