Final position
GM Carlsen (2733) – GM Anand (2799) [D43]
17.02.2008
1.d4 d5 2.c4 c6 3.Nf3 Nf6 4.Nc3 e6 5.Bg5 h6 6.Bh4 dxc4 7.e4 g5 8.Bg3 b5 9.Ne5 h5 10.f3 h4 11.Bf2 Bb7 12.Be2 Nbd7 13.Nxd7 Nxd7 14.0–0 e5 15.a4 a6 16.d5 Rh6 17.dxc6 Bxc6 18.axb5 axb5 19.Rxa8 Qxa8 20.Qc1 Rg6 21.Rd1 Bc5 22.Bxc5 Nxc5 23.Qe3 Nb3 24.Qb6 Nd4 25.Rxd4 exd4 26.Nxb5 Bxb5 27.Qxb5+ Qc6 28.Qe5+ Re6 29.Qxd4 Qb6 30.Qxb6 Rxb6 31.Bxc4 Rxb2 32.g3 f6 33.Be6 Ke7 34.Bg4 Re2 35.gxh4 gxh4 36.h3 Kd6 37.Kf1 Rb2 38.f4 Kc5 39.e5 Rb4 40.exf6 Rxf4+ 41.Ke2 Kd4 42.Bf3 Rxf6 43.Bb7 Rb6 44.Bc8 Ke4 45.Bg4 Rb2+ 46.Ke1 Ke3 47.Kf1 Kf4 48.Ke1 Kg3 49.Kf1 Rf2+ 50.Ke1 Rf4 51.Bc8 Rf8 52.Bg4 Kg2 53.Ke2 Re8+ 54.Kd3 Kf2 55.Bf5 Re3+ 56.Kd4 Kf3 57.Bg4+ Kf4 58.Kd5 Re5+ 59.Kd4 Rg5 0–1
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Carlsen got creamed!
Anand is a big rock in the carlsen’s road yet. When Carlsen will win Anand? Sometime? never?
Anand OWNS Carlsen!
Could Anand break through the fortress created if Carlsen had played 32…h3?
i mean 32. h3, of course.
> Could Anand break through the
> fortress created if Carlsen had
> played 32…h3?
After 32.h3 black could play f6, keep the rook on the 2nd line, then move the king to g3 and white will loose his g2 pawn.
Carlsen is not Kramnik. He don’t search the easy draw game. He tries to search the win this is why he plays this complex opening. Actually Anand is like Geller or Spassky was for Fischer …
I am sure, Carlsen can easily draw versus Anand by playing somes lames openings. So the “Anand OWNS Carlsen!” is stupid.
Maybe Carlsen can’t beat Anand yet, but when he does (and it is coming), he will CRUSH him.
People!!! You have to start realizing that Magnus Carlsen is refusing to join the Draw club to which Mr Anand is president, and Kramnick is Vice-President. While Anand and Kramnick are always fighting to find a draw….Carlsen is fighting to gain original victories against them. If you need proof of this, just review the Kramnick-Carlsen game of Corus where Kramnick tried to attain a draw by repetition various times while Carlsen kept fighting the position. Next in Carlsen’s target is Mr Draw….I mean Anand. As I have mentioned in numerous posts already…I’m happy that at least we have 3 players that are refusing to join the Draw Club (Carlsen, Radjabov, Aronian)…and you should too.
Exactly! That is why someday Magnus is going to be the best, because he goes for the win.
Anand’s days are over I read somewhere. hahaha!
>After 32.h3 black could play f6, >keep the rook on the 2nd line, >then move the king to g3 and >white will loose his g2 pawn.
What if White plays Kh2 before the Black King can get to g3?
quoting myself:
“What if White plays Kh2 before the Black King can get to g3?”
I just noticed that Black could then get his king to f2 and Rook to g1 to win the g-pawn.
refusing to join draw club doesnt ask you to lose the game. Finally you play to win the tournament and not lose points !!
“refusing to join draw club doesnt ask you to lose the game. Finally you play to win the tournament and not lose points !!” – anonymous
If you are so use to just play for draws….it will be very difficult for you to understand what Carlsen is doing. As a young player, he has a couple of years ahead of him to become World Champion. But he will not get to be World Champion by playing Anand’s, Kramnik, and Topalov’s games and being comfortable with draws. He needs to learn how not to only beat them at chess…..but also at their own drawing schemes. Fisher tried it in his time (first game of the 1972 tournament with Spassky). Carlsen can play for points all he wants in a year or two…..but right now he is learning how to crush the Chess elite. He already crushed Kramnik….Anand is next.
Any decent chess player recognizes one-way-traffic, and this was just it.
White only played some theoretical moves and lost without any chance whatsoever.