After losing to Nakamura, Carlsen bounced back to defeat Lie.
GM Lie (2539) – GM Carlsen (2776) [A11]
Aker Chess Challenge, 03.01.2009
1.c4 c6 2.g3 d5 3.Bg2 Nf6 4.Nf3 Bg4 5.Ne5 Be6 6.cxd5 Bxd5 7.Nf3 c5 8.Nc3 Bc6 9.0–0 e6 10.d3 Be7 11.a3 0–0 12.Qc2 Nbd7 13.Rd1 b5 14.b3 Qb6 15.Bb2 Rac8 16.Rac1 Rfd8 17.Qb1 c4 18.dxc4 bxc4 19.bxc4 Bc5 20.Rf1 Ng4 21.e3 Ndf6 22.Qc2 Bxe3 23.Rcd1 Nxf2 24.Rxf2 Ng4 25.Rdf1 Nxf2 26.Rxf2 Bxf3 27.Bxf3 Rd2 28.c5 Bxf2+ Black wins 0–1
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Chess Daily News from Susan Polgar
This tournament is a joke. It’s like an arm wrestling tournament between three professional body builders and a skinny teenager.
Lie should not have been included in the first place, but it’s too late now. There should have been a “mercy rule” that disqualifies him for poor performance, with the remaining schedule re-arranged to just include the three other players.
Instead, a bunch of Lie’s points get instantly transferred to the higher rated GM’s. The rich get richer, the poor get poorer – and you wonder why there’s rating inflation.
This is rapid chess, and the games are not rated, so the objection above is totally moot.
Originally, Simen Agdestein was supposed to take the fourth place. After he withdrew (I don’t know why), Lie was invited as a substitute.
Lie played very well in the olympiad in Dresden earlier this fall. Among others, he defeated the Chinese Bu (rating 2714) in a very nice game which was mentioned here on Susan’s blog. He usually plays an aggressive and attractive game, and was not an unnatural choice for the organisors after Agdestein withdrew.
It’s true that Lie has been taught some lessons in his games against Magnus, but I thought he did rather well against Svidler, and he did have an equal position against Nakamura just before he blundered. He seems to have problems with the clock, spending more time than his opponents in each game, and this is hurting him in rapid games.
Good game by Carlsen, but Naka is far too strong for him.