Magnus Carlsen Outmaneuvers Childhood Rival with a Genius Tactical Trap!

This guy is the same age as me, so he was one of the top contenders at youth championships back in the day. This is 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. Eh, he chooses to take. That's interesting. So this does... ...increase my space advantage. Now I think here... ...he'll 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... Eh, maybe we can actually. Do I have any useful moves? Maybe play A3. Try and get him to burn a little time when Rinipe wants to take this pawn still. He also has 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... ...and my knight moves. And this point is softened. Okay, I guess I should take the chance to... ...trade a pawn while I can. I just realized he didn't take here, which is... ...pretty sloppy play for me, but... ...he doesn't go for it. B3, Na5... ...Nc5... ...Rb1... I think 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 that pawn. 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 knight moves. 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, Nd4. I like that. Try and play dynamic queen. Nf5, I got Qh8, Ke7, and then I got Nxd5, Rxd8 later on. Which simplifies the game... ...to my definites. 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. Um... Yeah, let's go b4. Nc4, but I got more avenues for the rook. I didn't know why I went b4. That was not necessary. Let's put him in a pin. Here, I got Qc5, so he can't really run away. It's reasonable, but there's Qc5 still... ...and then there's check in Qd2, and I just realized that Qc5 is not a good move. Because of the pin. Otherwise, I got rook a7 next. It's game over.