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ANNOTATED GAME
World Chess Championship 2016 Game 8
GM Magnus Carlsen (2853) vs. GM Sergey Karjakin (2772)
Annotated by: teardrop34 (2197)
GM Magnus Carlsen (2853) vs. GM Sergey Karjakin (2772)
Annotated by: teardrop34 (2197)
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At last after 7 games we have a result and it’s not the one predicted.
Sergey Karjakin beat Magnus Carlsen with Black, no I shall re-write that bit.
Magnus lost with the White pieces in a game he seemed determined to lose.
No that takes something away from Karjakin. (you choose). Carlsen had a
100% stonewall draw and just refuse to take it. If ever you needed proof
that trying to win a drawn game losses then this is it. An incredible decision.
Karjakin played some very good moves. 27...h6 foiling a Carlsen trap.
20...Qa3 which was linked to move 27 and had to been seen in advance.
But the star move was 51...h5!! which he played very quickly. | ||||||
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1. d4 |
Back to 1.d4 as in Game One. | |||||
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1... Nf6 2. Nf3 |
No Trompowsky Attack today. | |||||
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2... d5 3. e3 e6 4. Bd3 |
It's a Colle. Not considered a killer at the top level but at club level it does very well. | |||||
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4... c5 |
5.c3 is the pure Colle system. | |||||
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5. b3 |
It's now into a Zuckertort/Colle. | |||||
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5... Be7 6. O-O O-O 7. Bb2 b6 |
White exchanges before Nc6 when he really has to. If not Black may, White takes back on d4 with a pawn and the b2 Bishop is moaning. | |||||
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8. dxc5 Bxc5 |
8...bxc5 was also playable. Karjakin elects to keep his Queenside pawn intact. | |||||
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9. Nbd2 Bb7 10. Qe2 Nbd7 11. c4 |
White takes out Black's d-pawn. | |||||
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11... dxc4 |
Karjakin is not averse to swapping pawns. He has a very solid set up. | |||||
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12. Nxc4 Qe7 13. a3 |
Hoping to get the Bishop with b4. | |||||
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13... a5 |
That is that stopped. | |||||
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14. Nd4 |
That Knight is on it's way to b5 on a fishing expedition. | |||||
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14... Rfd8 15. Rfd1 Rac8 16. Rac1 |
Signalling there will be lots of wood getting chopped on the c and d-files. | |||||
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16... Nf8 |
Covering the tender square d6 with the Rook, the Knight will re-emerge on g6. | |||||
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17. Qe1 |
I had no idea when I first saw this. Is it to make room for the d4 Knight? Is it aimed at a trick should the f8 Knight go from g6 to h4? | |||||
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17... Ng6 18. Bf1 |
Well if that was idea of the previous move then I'm slightly baffled. It does appear Magnus wants some exchanges on the c and d files it just a strange square to put the Colle Bishop. | |||||
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18... Ng4 |
What is this? Karjakin stepping into Carlsen half of the board. Yes. go for it, Carlsen is messing about. | |||||
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19. Nb5 |
Now 19...Qg5 and if Carlsen's plan was to tempt Karjakin into the attacking him then it worked. Qg5 has ideas like Nf4 exf4 Qh4 hitting f2 and h2. It looks very good. | |||||
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19... Bc6 |
But Karjakin believes Carlsen. Is there nothing Carlsen can do to get Karjakin to go for him? | |||||
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20. a4 Bd5 21. Bd4 |
Now come the predicted exchanges. | |||||
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