This Is Why You Never Make This Mistake Against Magnus

So he was one of the top contenders at youth championships back in the day. Let's play c5. I haven't looked at this in forever. Okay so he goes for cb6 which is reasonable but it's passive. Now white is a little bit better. And I think this one we can ignore, just castle. He chooses to take, that's interesting. So this does increase my space advantage. Now I think here, take on h7, takes d4, I think that's a trade I'm pretty happy with. Qd6 is normal. Will we continue to ignore the pawn? Well no, I guess we cannot continue to ignore the pawn anymore since, maybe we can actually. But do I have any useful moves? Maybe play a3. Try and get him to burn a little time wondering if he wants to take this pawn still. We also have a bit of a6 by the way. Rc1 is a bit soft. I don't love that move. Okay, Na5 so he releases the tension on that particular point. His plan is clearly to go Nc4. Let's start the attack on the king side now since after all, I feel like that's where my main potential lies here. b5, that was expected. Should I go a4? I feel like that's reasonable. b4, then my knight moves and this point is softened. Okay, I guess I should take the chance to trade a pawn while I can. Just realized he can take here which is pretty sloppy play for me, but he doesn't go for it. b3, Na5, takes b5, there's Rb1. Maybe this is good. No, it wasn't that good. Yeah, I'm not thrilled with my play in this game, boys and girls. I don't like these weaknesses. I shouldn't have let him take on a4. I know it's objectively very reasonable, but it's ugly. No, that's a blunder. He allows Nd7. Otherwise, this would have been a very good move, but unfortunately for him, I've learned how the So now I've caught my opponent in a fork. Not an easy win, by the way. He still has positional compensation, but it's a good start. This seems like a good idea. Takes Qd4. I like that. Try and play dynamically. Nf5, I got Qh8, Ke7, and then I got Nxd5, Rxd8 later on, which simplifies the game to my definite advantage. So, interesting game for sure, but I think it's going to be decided by a fairly crude blunder after all. This is probably his best chance now. Qxd5, and maybe he'll take the pawn on h4. Okay, he doesn't go for it. I think he should have tried that, because what does he really have to lose? This is the plan. Yeah, let's go b4, Nc4. I got more avenues for the rook. I didn't know I liked b4. That was not necessary. Let's put him in a pin here. I got Qc5, so he cannot really run away. It's reasonable, but there's Qc5 still, and then there's check in Qd2, and I just realized that Qc8 wins on the spot because of the pin. Otherwise, I got Ra7 next. It's game over. Okay.