MAGNUS~1.

Hello everyone. Welcome to another chess video. In this video, we are going to discuss about a game played in the Norwegian tournament, the 25th chess tournament in Norway. And it is a first-round encounter between the world number one player, Magnus Carlsen, and the world chess champion, the recently turned 19-year-old And this is particularly interesting because it was a Chihuahua-London game and that got me interested. The world number one playing Chihuahua means that it gives a stamp of approval to that opening. And this is actually a very important tournament and it's a classical tournament. And so playing Chihuahua in a classical tournament, world number one playing Chihuahua So, let's get started and dive in and see the game. Let's get started. The game starts with d4, knight f6 by Gokesh, knight c3 by Magnus, and d5 and bishop open. Now we are in the Chihuahua-London territory and there are many moves here. e6, c6, a6, g6, all are moves. And c5 is the most critical continuation and the world champion plays c5. And here Magnus played e3. There are other moves. Mainly e4 is possible. Knight f3 is also possible. But e4 is actually the most forcing line recommended by Botnik and Narodetsky in their course. And it leads to a lot of forced variations. For example, knight takes e4, knight takes e4, king takes e4, king takes e5, queen a5 check, c3, queen takes e5, queen f5 check, knight c6, queen takes e5, let's say bishop f5, queen e3. These are all very forcing lines in this e4 variation. Another line is g6, knight f3, bishop g7, and here, knight Nb1. There are many moves. But the traditional way to continue is e5, which Magnus plays. So, I also play e3. I also prefer e3 because you get a chance to play in a flexible manner. And it is in the spirit of Europe. But e4 is also very interesting. Bishop g4. This is a very interesting move. Instead of that, usually black plays a6 here sometimes and bxc5 is a very good move. It is a pawn advantage but black gets a lot of play. Another move is cxd4, cxd4, and cxd4. And after f3, bishop g7, knight d5, bishop takes d5. It is kind of an equal position. Go back. Here, black can play a6 first and after knight f3, bishop g4, h3, bishop takes f3, a6. It is a very important theoretical line made by many grandmasters. Very notable game in this line is Rapport versus Kutovsky in the Tomasio Olimpia. And also, Caruso versus Nefomaniachi in YTNC 2021. So, all these games are very theoretical value. You can check it out. And also, I think, Varusha played the same line in the Himmler Global League as well, if I remember correctly. But, let's go back to the game line. Here, Magnus played bishop e2. It is a very timid and positional continuation. He didn't like f3 because it might weaken the structure. So, Magnus being Magnus played bishop e2, bishop takes e2, c takes e2, which is a very interesting move. white plays knight g, takes e2 and build a structure like that. But, Magnus wanted to play like in a London game. Knight c6 and knight f3. e6, c3. So, white follows the London method of development having this triangle on the center and maybe wants to play h4, maybe castle, maybe not. So, it is a very flexible structure. Bishop e7, knight g3, castle and queen e2. So, basically, this is the spirit of the London, the classical London. Then, white plays queen e2 and tries to play e4 and also the king side. h6, rook d1, queen a5. A very interesting move threatening c takes d5 and threatening this pawn immediately. So, white convinces it by playing a3, rook d8 and h4. White wants to play some chances on the king side. Maybe, rook, rook, h3 and those kind of ideas after playing knight d5, knight h5, rook h3 are all in the air and this is the arrows. So, this will give white the initiative. Queen a4, knight d5, knight takes e5, bishop takes e5 and knight d7. Black wants to simplify the position and white doesn't want the exchange of bishop. So, queen a6, black wants to exchange of the queens. Then, after queen a6, queen takes a6. Let me show you. If I put a piece on d8, but there will be a lot of pressure on d5. So, Magnus wanted to play with the queen. Bishop d6 and knight h5. Bishop takes a4 and queen takes a5. Position is relatively equal. White has some ideas of creating an attack on the inside. I mentioned before. So, e5 is a very important move, mainly striking. Maybe, he could have done it after taking out b4 also. Queen g3 and queen g6 otherwise, it's mate on g7. Queen takes, queen and queen takes, hitting the knight. Knight has to move. And, after cxb4, cxb4 and c4. Otherwise, the d5 pawn will be weak. So, c4 is knight d2 and it's coming to the cxb2 to pressure on d5. d5 and c3 knight h6. But, actually, take on d5 which is rook d8 and b2 will fall and black will have a passed pawn. So, that's why knight takes d5 is not a good idea. Rook b1, rook b8 and e3. White wants to play e4 at some point and maybe g4 as well gaining some space on the inside. a5 and b4. It's a very interesting move. I think you want to stabilize the position on the queenside. Closing the a4 and closing the queenside is not a good idea because there will be a pressure on d5 always. Rook will be condemned to defend d5. So, you have to take an awesome. Pawn takes pawn, takes pawn and b4. Pawn takes pawn, rook takes pawn. Exchanging of more pieces. Now, very important, d8 hitting this e3 pawn. So, king d2 and rook check, king d3 rook takes g2, takes d5 and rook g3 hitting the f3 pawn f1 and g5. Black wants to create a passed pawn on the kingside as soon as possible to create a chance to play because d5 is weak and it will give you all the time. So, pawn takes pawn, takes pawn and to a1 h5 to a8 takes rook to king h7 and e4. So, white plays a passed pawn on the center of the board and black has got a passed pawn on the kingside. Pawn takes pawn, pawn takes pawn and g5 and h3, sacrificing the knight for time actually. So, in chess, there are three types of advantages. The first is material, the second is positional and third is time. It is okay to sacrifice the material because black will queen first and he can play threats against the white. Pawn takes knight, takes rook h7 and a very important check to king d2 and queens and queens. Here, Gugesh goes wrong actually. Here, the rook d2 check was important and after the rook d3 there are multiple ways to check this because you can't give rook to c4 because of queen and after the queen here black has not got a lot of winning ideas he will pick up this rook. So, it is also bad against the check. So, it is important to give a check on g2 but after queening black can check here and now the white king escapes. King d6 check, king d2 queen d6 check and after rook g2 check, king a3 rook b2 check king a4 queen takes knight and black king gets check. This is what Gugesh missed. Hope you enjoyed this video and if you enjoyed this video, please do share like, share and subscribe. Thanks a lot. Until next time.