The Greatest Game Ever¿ Magnus Carlsen Stuns the Chess World!

It's a point of no return. And Magnus, he hates his position right now. He's dejected from the position already. Dejected. Bishop takes c4 now. Maybe knight e6. I mean, yeah, yeah. He can't believe it. Yeah, and sometimes you just have to steer into the skin and accept the fact you've made a mistake and just get on with things. But this is the type of mistake that could already end the game within the next few moves. The white knight is about to land deep in Black's camp there, attacking so many things. Looks like it's falling apart, but Wesley, maybe the downside for him is he has too many tempting moves. Problem of plenty. And I love the idea that you're suggesting. It's something that you were hinting at earlier. Get that knight to attack the queen. Knight e6 would be a big move by Wesley here. He's taking his time. Also, the choice of picking up that pawn on c4 as well. And I think Wesley's jumped in with the knight. And you pick up the g7 pawn with a check. f5 pawn. Everything falls apart. This is a family channel. This is a family channel. We gotta get this off the screen. This is not good. Knight g7, knight f5 to follow. This might be a miniature, James. Usually you see it the other way around here. Wesley in good form here. Magnus just blundered in the first game and was not able to regroup in this one. I think he literally just missed up one move, maybe two with the bishop c3 early. Usually you wait for a3 there, but he had the right idea. It's just a move order. That's so crazy. You can never write off Magnus. We've seen him come back from the dead so many times. And yes, knight takes pawn forces Magnus's king to lose all rights to castle for the rest of the game. David, is it still too soon to call this a Wesley win? I know we were talking about guess the move earlier, but I would be talking about guess the move that Wesley wins. I don't know. It just looks so good for white. I don't even know why Wesley's hesitating, to be honest. You see a pawn, you take a pawn. Take a pawn with check, it's even better. There's something. If I'm playing like, you know what, it is what it is. I'm about to say in knight g7, knight f5, there might be king f7 and then when you take on f5, I go knight e5. And then I go rook g8. And I'm just hoping for Hail Mary, basically. At that point, he didn't want to allow any of that and say get out of here now. So now I probably take on both. Let's jump in because it's a key moment. Either Magnus Carlsen goes down in flames here and now, or he's able to launch some kind of fight back. Just for James' point, knight takes pawn check does force the king away. I'm not sure where you go, but for example, knight takes pawn now and the black knight does come. You do gain a tempo. Look at the bar, too. That's crazy. You get this counterplay. Knight moves, rook g8 and like, okay, hopefully you made it. I mean, this is suddenly scary. The black queen can come out to h3. It might be f3 here, though. Oh, but yeah, queen h3. Oh my gosh, Magnus has gone all bonk loud on the position. f3, king e7 on the board. f3, king e7? I mean, I don't know what's in that bonk cloud right now, but I mean, this is crazy. Knight takes pawn. I guess the king is attacking the knight. He's going to gobble up that pawn, Wesley. Of course he will. He needs f8. Hey, listen, you know, it's not over until it's over. He's making it absolutely crazy, the position. You know, he goes king e7, queen f8. He's hit every single chaos button that ever existed. Wesley keeps it under control, simply comes back with the knight, hitting that knight on e4. c4 is hanging, f5 is weak. I like the control that Wesley is showing right now. Also up on the clock. No tricks, nothing. I have to move this knight? I guess I have to. I have nothing. Maybe knight g5 with a rook d8 and knight e5. I have to move this knight, apparently. It's really difficult for black. After the next move, it will be level material. And yeah, black king out in the open, white has the bishop pair, white has a beautiful outpost. It's not over though. He's not going to be material up yet, Wesley so. So he still needs to transform that into something tangible. Correct. I keep forgetting that Wesley only needs to draw. Oh yeah, I forgot about that too. He does recapture with the queen. And Magnus' knight could jump to the center of the board, hit that queen, and I really like what you're pointing out. The queen, it just swings over to the other side, giving a check to that king on e7 after knight e5. Magnus didn't have much choice, again, reluctantly making these moves. He knows how ugly his position is, but sometimes you just got to get on with things. And that check forces the black king away. You got b4, bishop b4, bring the bishop to b2. Yeah, there it is. Bishop b2, get all the pieces out. You should be getting that app out now, James. Guessing the moves. Oh man. Bishop b2 now, and then bring the rooks somewhere. Yeah, this should be fine. The rooks are coming. Black king is in the eye of the storm. I'm just seeing all the good stuff for white here. Where is Magnus' play? That bishop on b7 has been blunted, no attack on g2 whatsoever. White is threatening to open up the central lines and get to black's king. That's an instant blunder. Knight f6, yikes. Of course, the knight. Queen e7, takes, takes. What am I down again? Am I down anything? Okay. Magnus in an endgame, maybe with some chances. He goes for it. Okay. He might feel a little better here. Wow. Wesley was trying to win some material, but Magnus gives up the exchange. And, okay, he's fighting. He's got light squared domination. I don't think this is over yet. Looks very nice for white. Rook up for a knight, but... I've seen Magnus turn around stranger things than this. At least there's no checkmate. He survived the storm. No miniature. This will not be printed in all the newspapers. Magnus clinging on. Magnus needs one move, right? Bring that rook to g8, and you're a happy camper lining up on the g5. E3 is under attack right now as well. If you give up your light squared bishop, I don't think that's such a great idea because you give this powerful piece to black that cannot be challenged ever. There's stuff to fight for here. Wow. Definitely stuff to fight for. He was actually forced to give up material. We should mention Magnus does trade off Wesley. He's going to push forward his pawns. I feel this, but I think black is okay here. Knight e4. Rooks need what class? Raise your hand, chat. Open files. You need to have open files. I actually don't really have them right now. I have the c file. A6 is nice because now I have to rook c1. At some point, we can play c5. Try to block these rooks here as much as we can. He's okay. He's fighting back. Magnus made a face as well. He was like, it's not that bad. He was like, really? King was about to get checkmated 10 moves ago. Here he is down in exchange where he's got that extra pawn. He's got a solid bishop on b7. A beautiful knight on e4. It's the best position Magnus has had all game. All game. It's momentum writers as well. Wesley might start getting frustrated the longer it goes on this game. A bit of a shake of the head. You're right. It's crazy. Wesley doesn't know the bar says it's still completely winning. He's just seeing Magnus get all the counter play. No piece to challenge that bishop on b7. You can't immediately trade the knights off the board. Magnus is in the fight here. Can't immediately force a draw either which is going to be annoying for Wesley. Normally when you're winning, you know that at some point there's an off ramp. You can just trade off all the pieces. Draw. Okay. Win the match. Go home. Oh, it's equal to that. Recalibration. But a5 was nice. Take on b5. Move for g3 instead. This is getting messy now. There is no rook c1. Can I take on a6 first? You could throw in a check as well. I don't know if that's useful or not. But f6 is always there and then get the rook. Well, don't get it to c1 because of the fork on e2. That's a very timid move from Wesley. Moving his rook to a square that avoids any checks. But what is the white rook doing here? I mean, you're also just offering up this pawn in the near future. If Magnus wants it. Very strange decision. Magnus, though, might want to deal with this tension first. Which pawn are you going to capture? Very unclear. Down to one minute and a bit for each player. But yeah, definitely the best position Magnus has had all game. I really don't want to trade rooks here. So, just contemplating that and calculating, of course, as time is getting lower. Two second increment. Takes. You just take it back with the rook and then you want to capture on a6 and trade off a pair of rooks. If Wesley trades one pair of rooks, that eases the tension for him. He first throws in a check, saving that f-pawn. King f7 or e6. He moves forward and now take that pawn on a5. No reason not to. Take it. Take back. Rook takes b5. Needs some counterplay. Wesley wants the rooks off but this is a valuable pawn. You don't want to allow the black pawns to start marching. That thing's scary. C and B? I don't know. I don't know. Who's winning there? This is a game for all two results right now. You just can't ride on Magnus. You know, you take on b5. Black's rook will at some point enter that a2 square as well once the bishop moves to safety. Yeah, the bishop moves. I'm not sure exactly where. E4 maybe and then the rook comes and okay, Magnus maybe has to speed up slightly. Down under the one minute mark now. Hesitation. One thing I like that Magnus did for this game here and this is just something to learn from as a player too if you're watching from home. Actually, you just keep fighting and create chances and that's what he did here. I mean, he just busted out the opening but you have to find the moves. You have to play accurately. The bar goes down. Rook a1 but Wesley needs only a draw. He's just trying to neutralize all pressure and all ideas. All he needs is a draw. It's kind of annoying. Magnus not playing the best move which was to trade rooks but that would have led the game closer to the draw. So let's ignore the cross. He's taking risks now because he needs to do Magnus must win situation. He needs his rook to combine with his bishop and knight later. The blue arrow appears saying that white should drive this black knight away but that's not an obvious move. The white king shifting. There's no real entry points for these white rooks though. Really frustrating for Wesley. 30 seconds. You gotta move. He does make a move. He's coming for the g-pawn now. H-pawn goes up defending it and the c-pawn is about to come up. C5 in the air. Magnus is creating threats right now. And the pressure is on Wesley. I mean if Magnus survives this I've seen everything. Under 20 seconds Wesley so who thought we'd be here a few minutes ago but black knight jumping back. Black rook can start getting active. Watch out this white bishop doesn't have too many squares. He does it David. Rook b8. You've got to move that bishop to c3. The only square where it stays connected to the f6 pawn. Black pawns are coming. Because of the time scramble here. Wesley is probably slightly worse in these type of positions here just because of the time pressure. We did see him do this against Yan earlier. Magnus has been here so many times before. His nerve usually holds. Wesley lower on the clock. Struggling to find a plan. Brings his rook up the board. Here we go. Look at the bar change. Unbelievable. That's crazy. You know there are all these ideas. You've got to watch out. Rook b1. Rook h1. If the g2 pawn gets out of the way at some point. And Magnus is he going to try and step that? He does. He's trying to set that up. Oh my goodness. You take on h3. Rook b1 comes in. That's a scary move. Rook check. He gives up. Wesley. That was a sick move. I'm not even lying. Trying to get rid of one of black's minor pieces. Oh my god. A mistake. I think you have to eliminate this white rook now. And then you can And this is winning for Magnus. Rook h8. Rook h8 is. There's bishop on c3. Why is this lost? Rook b1. Down the board. g3 too. Whoa. Wesley gives up his rook. He's about to make a new queen. It's going to cost black his rook. Magnus wins. Checkmate. Unbelievable. And the crowd goes wild. Magnus Carlsen makes a comeback from a dead lost position. Hot take. Because he won that game, that's it. I think that's it for the video.