Carlsen Viene Detronizzato dal Più Grande Sacrificio Infernale

Hello everyone and welcome back to a new video. Today we are talking about the final of the Champions Chess Tour I-Cup. Vashela Grav and Kartsen will face each other again, but this time the number one in the world, who is used to always winning, will not make it. Before starting, I remind everyone to like and subscribe to the channel, thanks to everyone who is subscribing. Thanks also to the two Stefano for the donations of 10 and 20 euros, thanks for your support. Let's start! Here we are, the grand final between Kartsen and Vashela Grav. Last match, the decisive match. Vashela Grav plays with the white pieces and opens with Qe4. Kartsen responds with c5, Sicilian defense, follows with Nf3, Nf6, Nd4, Grav plays in the center, Nd4, Nd4 and Kartsen plays Nd6. Let's go back to the Khan variant of Sicilian defense. Vashela Grav instead tries to impose the Marozzi. The Marozzi is one of the best systems against Sicilian defense. In fact, the white creates a very solid structure in the center. Follows Nf6, Kartsen attacks the pawn e4, Grav defends it by developing the knight in c3. Qc7 for Kartsen, a move from the book, he can stay there, now that he has played a6 he is controlling the b5 house. Grav responds with a3, prevents the move Qb4 and Kartsen continues with b6, he wants to flank the pawn in the light. Follows Qd3 for Grav, this move is marked as imprecision, but in reality it is one of the best moves, it makes sense. Grav defends the pawn in e4, Kartsen develops the pawn in b7, follows the rook, the white puts it safe and Kartsen plays Qd6. Qd6 puts pressure on the pawn in h2 with queen and rook. Grav plays the best move, f4 pawn, threatens to play e5 and give the fork to rook and knight, and Kartsen continues with Rc5. With this move, he nails the knight, attacks the king, so he is ready to gain a piece, Grav must defend that knight by force and plays Rc3, the best move. Kartsen continues with Nc6, increases the pressure on the knight in d4 and Grav withdraws the knight in c2, in this way he defends the bishop. The opening we can say that it was played very well by both. Here Kartsen continues with Nd6, plays the best move. Grav raises the queen in d2, connects the towers and finishes the development. Kartsen puts the king safe and he finishes the development, connects the towers. Now the two must centralize these towers or activate them as much as possible. The white thinks about towers and 1, towers on the central column. Kartsen jumps with the knight in g4 instead, he wants to capture the bishop in e3, he is attacking it with the knight and the bishop. Grav makes an important decision, he captures the bishop in c5 and after Nc5 he removes the pawn weakness to the black. Because Nd6 was a weak pawn, however here the position remains even. Now Grav continues with Ne5, this move makes sense instead. He is attacking the h7 house with the bishop, so he opens the d1 of the bishop and removes the f6 house from the knight. The knight cannot go back to f6. Kartsen plays Nd8, with Nd8 he attacks the bishop and the queen in Rgx. The queen moves in e2 with counterattack on the knight and Kartsen's knight is moved to h6. Well, of course, he had no other solution, but from h6 the knight can jump in f5. However, the horses on the board we know very well that they are not very good. He follows towers in d1 to draw Grav, occupies the open column. Kartsen instead jumps with the knight in d4, excellent move. He releases the diagonal to the bishop. He attacks the queen and centralizes a knight. This knight is very strong, so Grav changes it immediately. Knight for knight. Kartsen takes the pawn and after Nd4 we reach this position. It is a position where both can try to attack. Anyway, they are trying to attack. What are the plans in this position? The black wants to play Nf5, Nf3 and give the double to the towers. While the white aims to play Ng5 and attack the house in h7. So here the position is not quiet at all. Let's see how the game continues. Kartsen jumps with the knight in f5. Grav plays Nf3. With this move he not only prevents the double to the towers, but also prepares moves like h3 tower. To increase the pressure in h7 even more. This is his plan. And maybe play moves like Ng5 or even sacrifice the knight in f6. Kartsen then decides to make this knight out of e4. Because it was a too dangerous piece. He removes an attacker to the white. Grav takes the bishop and Kartsen jumps with the knight in e3. He plays the best move. Here we are at move 22 and both played a great game. There were no mistakes. Only small inaccuracies, but nothing. They played very well. Ok, but from here on the game explodes. We actually reach a critical moment. Vasherla Grav still decides to go ahead and attack. And he does it by sacrificing a piece in h7. Wow. Actually, ok, the engine gives it wrong. But the plan is very simple. After Nf3, h3 tower, Ng8, Qh5. Vasherla Grav wants to give a crazy jump in h7 or in h8. To see it like this seems a devastating attack. However, in this position, black is better. Correctly played, black wins. But only one move wins. And Kartsen doesn't find this move. Kartsen plays Nf5. And the game returns in parity, but white attacks. We know that it is difficult to defend, especially in fast games. Even if Kartsen still had 10 minutes here. In short, there was some time to think. Anyway, f5, wrong move. Instead, he had to play Nf6 pawn. With this move here, black wins. Let's see a possible continuation from here. For example, h7, knight escapes in f7. Nf6 pawn, white wants to capture. He follows Ng8 tower. The tower defends the pawn. Ng3 tower to threaten Ng7 tower. He follows Nf6 king. Incredible, but true. This is the solution to win. There is no crazy escape. After Nf6, Nf6, Nf6, Nf6. Wow. Kartsen had to find this variant. Maybe Nf6 was not so easy to see. But the game continues in another way. Kartsen plays f5. Now let's see the difference. Because there is a difference. White plays Nf7 pawn. Kartsen plays Nf7. But Nf7 can play h6 tower. The difference is that there is a Nf5 pawn. That controls the f6 house. The g7 pawn is enclosed. So white can play Nf6 check. Before, there was a black pawn in f6. It was not possible to play Nf6 check. After Nf6, you saw that he followed Nf6. Now the tower has an accessible house in f6. Here we reach a critical moment of the game. Again, Black has just played a brilliant move. How does Kartsen get out of it? Actually, he could. The best move is Nd1. An absurd move. Instead, Kartsen plays Qc4. With Qc4, the game is completely won for white. Black continues with his plan. Nf6 check. The king moves to e8. The queen moves to g7. And Kartsen decides to abandon. Wow! Incredible! Kartsen has the extra quality. But he abandons in this position. Why does he abandon? Because he risks to get a checkmate. For example, after Nf6 tower, Nf6 pawn. White is threatening checkmate in e7 and checkmate in g8. So, if Black abandons checkmate in e7, he plays Ng8 checkmate. What can Black do? He can play Nd5. Nd5 checks the house in e7. But he also plays checkmate in g8. Kd7. Promotion to the queen with checkmate. Rc8. And the easiest way to win this game is... QxT. KxQ. QxNd4. Extra quality for white. Excellent attack. And an extra pawn. So, white will win this game. And that's it. Kartsen is defeated. He loses the grand finale. After he had already beaten Václav Krav in the winner's round. That's right, because Kartsen, in yesterday's challenge, I'm sure some of you followed it, he made some mistakes. So, it's not good. He was able to set the game very well. Often he was in the lead. But then he always collapsed. And if I'm not mistaken, he didn't win even one game. He drew several games. He lost at least three, I think. And he won zero. So, Kartsen usually doesn't play like this. So, yesterday it wasn't an evening. However, he didn't make a bad performance. Because, I mean, he didn't come first, he came second. But, someone like him, who is used to win, it's bad for him even if he comes second. Thank you all for watching this video. I remind you to like and subscribe to the channel. Bye and see you next time.