How Magnus Carlsen Became World Champion

ladies and gentlemen in today's video we're going to be taking a look at the reign of magnus carlsen he won the world championship in 2013 and in this video i'm going to take you through the timeline of how he did it every world champion contender in chess has to first win the candidate which has had many formats over the years in 2013 they went back to the eight player double round robin format which means there were 14 rounds and they went back to that format for the first time in 51 years so going into the final round magnus carlsen was actually tied for first place with vladimir kramnik former world champion they both had eight and a half points out of 13. magnus had white versus peter svidler kramnik had black versus vasily van chuk now the candidates are decided by a tiebreak system which by the way is absolutely ridiculous and needs to change but essentially if kramnik and carlson tie for first place then a tie break system is implemented the first of which is what was their head-to-head score now they had made two draws so the next tie break is how many games you win and magnus had the better tiebreak he had won more games so kramnik needed to go all out with the black pieces and take risk and magnus trying to play for the win against peters fiddler so that there were no doubts first i will show you that game against peter svidler and then we will get into the world championship match time stamps are on the video player if you get bored feel free to jump around here we go so magnus begins the game with e4 e5 and we have a roy lopez a spanish obviously peter svidler has the option of what to do also it's weird being peter svidler because you know magnus is going to come out guns blazing if magnus wins this game it doesn't matter what happens with kramnik because even if kramnik wins magnus has the better tiebreak score so we have knight f6 castles bishop e7 and magnus here elects d3 there's many systems in the rue lopez but most of them have c3 and d4 on the cards this is the traditional method of expanding the pawn center but magnus plays this system with a3 and d3 and it's pretty funny because a short while uh after uh this uh this game happened it was actually peter svidler who made an openings course with a3 d3 i believe so it doesn't really matter who does it but uh this is a more modern and trendy way to play and white basically just fights for the square on d5 so svidler goes bishop to b7 very natural bishop d2 is a bit of a cryptic move but if you had moved the bishop out anywhere else it could have been a target so bishop d2 is played and actually now you see white's entire purpose is to attack the queen side with the move a4 svidler drops the knight back we have a trade we have another trade and we have this knight rotating over to g3 to potentially go to f5 magnus carlsen uh doesn't need an excuse to find even the slightest of imbalances in a position it could be night for bishop it could be anything right and he does exactly that svidler says no i'm good i actually would like to preserve my bishop magnus uh the knight on f5 is quite nice but it has no target anymore it can't attack anything on e7 a magnet says okay great c4 idea being that for example if you take i take with the bishop but if you don't take if you play a move like b4 then i will outflank you right i'm gonna win control of this diagonal then i'm going to somehow slowly invest onto that queen side with my rook and uh you have a lot of pawns that are just isolated like they just can't move and they are far more of a target than the pawns are in my position okay swiddler decides to take take bishop c7 rookie one rookie eight we just have a very maneuvering game peter's trying to get into f4 pawn to g3 pawn to g6 kicking out the knight but inviting magnus into h6 so peter actually invites the horses which can be good in some cases and bad in other cases and in the case of magnus carlsen uh he's getting some sort of attack on peter but peter here lashes out into the center he says all right i'm not so fast i'm not gonna just get checkmated take stakes magnus drops the knight back trying to fight for the dark squares he wants bishop f6 he wants queen h6 he has bad intentions for example if bishop takes bishop there is bishop h6 check and then and only then i will take and i'm going to try to land the knight on f6 all right uh there are also variations where for example you can land a a knockout like this and this is just game over because if king here or king there you take the knight and you're mating and the queen is hanging and my arrow drawing skills are not very good um but instead of that uh peter jumps into f3 to try to kick the knight out we have that still that same infiltration the king is barely surviving on f8 um and here magnus backs up because he doesn't want his bishop captured queen h3 f3 and peter actually says bro who do you think you're attacking and he plays knight f4 and you you you actually just cannot take this knight at all um well i mean you actually probably should play queen f2 which prevents quincy to mate uh but even there there's the beautiful punch queen takes bishop the queen sacrifice with knight two h3 which attacks both and it's still peter who is actually playing for advantage uh but magnus decides to take uh giving up the bishop and now his knight is hanging takes on f7 and peter takes bishop takes f3 now again on the surface looks like that's just a blunder but if you take that then well you lose your rook so you can't do that so we have a position here on move 34 where peter svidler is actually the one hunting down magnus carlsen and i actually remember where i was when this game was being played i was on the train and i was taking the train to brooklyn to hang out with my good friend and play some handball and we were messing uh messaging each other you know we were like oh my god magnus is going to lose what the hell you know we're like texting each other i'm on the train it's a really long commute watching some chess and like peter is just chipping and chipping away and now we have an end game and peter svidler's just winning i mean peters fiddler has the bishop pair and he's a pawn up in an end game and remember on move 40 this is move 37 on mu 40 uh the players are uh gaining their extra time so finally we hit move 40 and they get their extra time but it doesn't really matter because magnus even though for example he has a fork he's not actually winning any material actually the king is going to be forking his bishops so king f2 f3 h3 and the bishops are just swarming and the problem is that magnus's knight peter invited it in a long time ago and that knight is getting stuck and uh now peter activates his two pawns you'll notice that his bishops coordinate beautifully and the advantage is really the pawns and so he just pushes down the pawns it does not matter that his bishop can be taken because g3 now the king must come back but it is the bishop that is winning the fight on the dark squares and even though magnus has two pieces they're not doing anything this bishop absolutely dominates the knight the knight has no entrance to the position can't come back and in this position peters fiddler played the move bishop to h2 you would say well why can't he play bishop to e3 he can but there's no reason to give your opponent two pieces for a queen instead peter just plays this secures the promotion and magnus carlsen resigns and you're gonna say wait a minute levy why would you start the video with this how did magnus carlsen win the candidates by losing well on the neighboring board vladimir kramnik actually with the black pieces versus vasily vanciuk began the game with appeared's defense d6 d4 knight f6 and the pierce defense involves g6 and it's a very risky opening especially at the highest level you invite a big attack on yourself and what was happening during the game is that magnus was very much equal right throughout that game that we just saw it was an equal middle game so kramnik on the neighboring board decided to go all out he just went all out and it's crazy because he didn't have to had he kept the balance in his game for a while he could have seen that magnus is trending in the wrong direction and just made the draw but kramnik lost two top guys lost in the final round because of detention and everything and it was magnus carlsen who won and secured a qualification spot so it was insanely tense but now magnus carlsen will move on to challenge for the world championship as you all know chess is full of drama and in securing a spot for the 2013 world chess championship match there's supposed to be a bidding process now as the story goes um the indian chess federation did what they had to do they put up the money uh for the prize fund and ultimately fidei said the match will be held in chennai india uh and there was some massive protest it was like well you didn't go through the uh you know the whole process and apparently paris wanted to kind of be the neutral location right and the carlson camp even complained they were like hey you know we're going to chennai it's it's home territory for anand i mean this is not really the way it's supposed to go but uh like i said drama aside uh one more small point that was less dramatic was the fact that one of the team members of anand uh peter heine nielsen at least former team members because all these guys have a team of of players that that helped them train and prepare moved camps so actually peter heine nielsen worked for the carlson camp even though he formerly had always worked with anand and obviously when he signed the contract with carlson it was you know contractual not to leak any of the preparation but at the end of the day no one knows what happens behind closed doors but it's interesting that you had a team member literally shift which happens obviously in many sports and you can tell your new team the former team's playbook but i'm just going to uh hope for the best and assume that that is something that did not happen but we're in chennai it's the later part of 2013. first i'm going to show you this clip of the press conference before the match begins sandipan uh so these are the my four seconds i worked as i always did which is couple of months of training and i think i'm well prepared but we'll see how it goes but i feel ready to play and i feel in a good mood um well i appreciate mr annan's openness about his team and alas i'm not going to to return the favor so what you saw there was the briefing or the opening press conference uh of the 2013 world championship match and by the way at that time uh magnus is 22 years old and then there's 43 years old so it's kind of funny it's it's it's really a battle of multiple generational gaps right magnus very much belongs to the new age of uh growing up in the era of the computers in chess uh but as always you know chess press conferences are hilarious and the first question out the gate is who's your team which is really not something that they reveal anand goes ahead and just reveals everybody because he's basically played many world championships with the same team uh carlson kind of cracks up uh and drinks water i don't know what the heck that's about and then says he's not going to reveal his team but anyway uh i'm going to show you a few of the most important games of the match uh followed by as always funny clips of interviews because these press conferences are hilarious and then we will reconvene at the end and talk a little bit about magnus carlsen's world championship reign here we go so we're starting in game number five the first four games were drawn and the first two games that magnus carlsen had the white pieces he began with knight f3 which is a move that he just doesn't really play like all these guys know all the openings but magnus doesn't play that move so he goes for c4 seeing what vishi's gonna do and rather than taking the center which is obviously one of the most respected moves vichy plays e6 d5 which is also completely fine and we have now what's known as a transposition back to a queen's gambit declined magnus goes knight c3 and here it's considered slightly inaccurate by black to play knight f6 because this queen's gambit declined actually allows white to take and enters something that's known as the exchange variation which is considered a little bit inaccurate and white can get an advantage and instead uh vishy plays c6 assuming that magnus will just develop and now we will have something known as the semi-slav defense something that vichy has played many many times but magnus takes advantage of the fact that knight c3 has been played not knight f3 and now night if these knights have not yet been developed and that allows magnus the moment to put a pawn in the center of the board and this is known as the marshall variation uh and essentially after takes takes bishop to b4 check white normally plays bishop to d2 and bishop to d2 allows queen takes pawn because now your queen's not protected right your pawn's not protected by your queen and the knight is hanging even though your bishop's hanging this is known as the marshall gambit this is actually one of a few different types of marshall gambits and chess i play this with white and i've also played this with black but magnus plays instead of bishop d2 knight dropped back to c3 and what's funny is that again this is 2013 my modern day understanding of this position is here according to computers e5 gambiting this pawn fully equalizes this position for black but back then vichy played c5 which i believe is still to this day the most popular move but e5 is completely fine so it's just interesting how chess develops because right now i'll tell you like i think e5 is completely fine there for black but that's how chess works magnus plays a3 uh inviting the capture of the knight vishy says no thank you knight f3 knight f6 and now magnus just develops his pieces like natural we have knight c6 from black and magnus plays a strange move he plays queen d3 very clearly intending to castle queenside i mean otherwise you just wouldn't block your bishop like you can play bishop to e2 for example um but uh he plays queen d3 preparing to castle long stopping knight to e4 cd4 knight d4 and so fishy says okay i can't go down the middle i'll go to the right no problem let me get your bishop magnus says i don't really care about my bishop i care about development and now here uh you have to play f takes e3 because if you play queen e3 trying to preserve your pawn structure um it's very important in chess that you don't just focus on your own plans black here has a move bishop to b6 paralyzing your knight by virtue of a pin and even though you have a discovered attack on the queen looming you're gonna lose your queen first and it will be with check so that's not good so magnus takes with the pawn anan brings back his bishop saying it doesn't serve a purpose there anymore now we have knight takes c6 bc6 takes takes and the following position and here white has a slight advantage you say how does that make sense material is completely equal black has the bishop pair and if you're going to really try to tell me that this pawn is a weakness this pawn is a weakness yes it is a weakness however all all games of chess are evaluated on a criteria of of multiple points and uh one of those points is is obviously material that's equal but white has better prospects and more active pieces uh and white has more space and that's why white is better here and magnus plays bishop e2 and bishop f3 lining up the bishop on the diagonal targeting one of those weaknesses and you'll notice that white has better prospects because black is a move or two behind forever in getting settled white is able to play moves like knight c5 knight g5 knight d6 utilizing that lead in development coordinating the pieces on certain squares bishi is going to be stuck defending now we have magnus playing c5 forcing the bishop back but actually not really because vichy goes for a counter attack so if she played bishop c7 then magnus would plant the knight he would play b4 he would double up the rooks and he would very slowly chip away at the terrible lack of space that black faces vichy tries to solve his problems tactically f5 and now we have pawn takes bishop pawn takes knight b7 which attacks the rook and forces it to move and the following transformation and this end game is always going to be a little bit better for white because black has split pawns black has these three split pawns magnus has kind of split pawns of two which is better and one weakness whereas black could potentially have three isolated weaknesses and as this game progresses magnus starts to apply pressure now magnus might be 22 years old at the time of this match but he's got that old man style and what i mean by that is he plays the long game he plays the long game he's got that grind in him he's not looking for tactical flair and he's not looking for crazy knockout punches um he conserves his energy and he does it really well and he fights the entire game right so you would think that maybe the young guy oh more athletic no in chess it's very different you you actually use that energy that you might have as the younger player for longer periods of time and so as the game progresses vishi tries to create a little bit of counter play magnus meanwhile centralizes his rooks brings back his bishop and infiltrates and anand continues to chip away on this side of the board magnus advances up the middle and now magnus finds a moment to bring his king into the game king to d2 rook b5 attacks the pawn b3 very simple one thing that magnus doesn't like to do is he doesn't like to push pawns unnecessarily you'll notice that he's trying to find the right coordination for his pieces without making many pawn moves in fact as i speed things up a little bit you see vichy trying to get active and solve things with the pawns and really like vishy pushes every pawn vishi's trying to get everybody involved and magnus is very methodically not touching a single pawn it's vishy who's pushing like vishy has noticed vichy has pushed every single pawn that's interesting right magnus kind of hanging back like yo come and get me come and get me with your pawns because when you overextend what's going to happen when we transform the position as all the pawns come off the board you push your pawns in a little bit too far and they're a bit more delicate now and i haven't touched my pawns you're gonna have to come deep into the territory to uh to get my pawns and now finally magnus pushes upon but it's a check and he brings in the bishop and he brings the bishop in to wrap around right so anand plays rook c1 king b2 and goes for the pawn on g2 but we have check king c6 and now a super important move not yet taking the bishop but checking and the king has a very uncomfortable decision does it come forward or does it go back it goes back he tries to stop this pawn had he gone forward i would have taken the bishop and tried to promote my e-pawn now magnus takes we have take stakes and takes and the pawns get hunted down and vishi's left with one pawn and now we have a rook end game up two pawns king e6 a4 and because magnus waited a very long time to push his pawns they are flank pawns they are a and h which is a nightmare to defend king e5 a5 king e5 a5 king d6 magnus cuts the king off on the seventh rank pushes check king c3 and finally the final move of the game the one pawn magnus went 58 moves without moving this pawn this one i'm telling you he only moves the pawn now pawn to h4 and vishy anand resigns is that crazy took him 58 moves to move the pawn but it was the final move of the game and magnus carlsen has his first win over vishwanathan anand and it's three to two now we move to game number six i will take you immediately to the next game vichy's gotta strike back but she's down three to two but but she has been down in world championship matches before he lost the girlfriend he lost to paul he's lost b4 so now she's got to fight back he's got the white pieces plays e4 magnus carlsen again employs the berlin defense of the rue lopez in the last game we saw morphy's defense with a6 this is kind of the classical main line and vichy plays something known as the anti berlin he plays d3 we're not going into a berlin end game magnus plays bishop c5 now nowadays in these positions people are taking they they are transforming the position damaging black structure and engaging in a two bishops versus one bishop's struggle but back then vichy instead opts for a maneuvering game versus magnus he brings back the bishop around to b3 magnus plays very solid d6 you'll notice in rue lopez positions generally this bishop is back here but in this case it's not bishop g5 bishop e6 maneuvers and finally we have our first trade of the game bishop takes bishop and you can take this with a knight you can take this with the queen but instead we have ab3 doubling your own pawns but active rook on the a file right putting some pressure on the a6 pawn vishi drops the knight back common idea to rotate the knight to d7 in rue lopez positions uh and then expand later with the scene the deep ones now this is one of the reasons i never recommend rue lopez to beginners or intermediate players far too much maneuvering no clear plan of action eight pawns per side very close i mean it's just too it's too strategic you need more direct plans like look at this look at the last two moves by white vichy plays h3 we have knight d7 knight h2 and queen e7 okay knight h2 to pressure this and go knight g4 i have this feeling that i said vichy went knight b8 knight d7 if i did i'm sorry if i didn't then my brain is incorrectly remembering things during the time of recording knight f1 vichy is just going all the way to this side to try to expand on this side on this side of the board i just drew a lot of arrows only a few of those were accurate bishop b6 knight e3 queen e6 and avicii takes a little bit of queen side space with b4 a5 takes takes and knight g4 looks like vichy's got a very nice position but it's actually funny because now we have a transformation he takes on f6 takes takes and takes and we're going to get bishop vs knight or we're going to get no bishop and no knight and we're just gonna have queens and rooks heavy piece end game heavy piece not insulting the pieces wait they are called the heavy pieces at this point what's going to matter is the pawn structure and the activity of your pieces and the weaknesses in the position magnus plays queen e7 to get out of the way rook f1 chases down the queen but at the same time takes control of the file and now magnus takes queen side space with c5 now of course you look at this you go just agree to a drop bozos why are you playing you got queen rooks i mean it's just a draw okay but we have to play king h2 c4 magnus is instigating he wants vichy to take because this one pawn does something called fixing fixing the pawns not letting them move and you have doubled isolated epons which just looks ugly and gross kind of like me so we have d4 but he still has a fixed structure and if magnus ever takes then this is going to be problematic but magnus doesn't take he trades and he plays queen b7 lining up on e4 threatening to take forcing vichy to make a decision vichy chooses rook to d1 because some short while later we have ed4 and the only way to protect this pawn ladies and gentlemen is to play rook d4 and this is the thing that magnus carlsen is so good at he's so good at making you do things and making you commit because now vichy's got doubled isolated e pawns yes this pawn is a bit of a target but you are the one with the targets right you have to back up and magnus is doing something that uh a friend of mine uh international master alex ostrovsky one of the best chess teachers kind of a plug for him he calls this stewing like stirring the pot he's just stewing him stewing him just improving his position ever so slightly just slowly improving improving letting the opponent sell the strike let's also not remember uh not forget that um it's actually up until move 40 they get the extra time on mu 40. and again vishy can play queen f4 queen f3 queen for queen e3 forever but vichy gets stewed and plays queen g3 allowing magnus to take and now we have a little bit more of a transformation and the players have traded down into this rook end game vichy plays rook d5 magnus plays rook b7 so sometimes you have to do the ugly move the defensive move but magnus is up upon g and h versus fgh that is his extra pawn advantage now magnus plays f6 and he plays king f7 he's trying to bring the king and slowly expand the pawns vichy plays active defense by sacrificing the h pawn so now this is down two pawns but in doing so he has split the pawns and that's really bad that's not good at all and so matt what magnus has to do now is decide which of those pawns he wants to hang on to to make progress magnus chooses to slowly advance but part ways with the b-pawn that's pawn number one this you go ahead and take it i'm gonna give you a check very important we see we saw that in the last game magnus gives the check to force the king back that ever so slight damaging of the of the king's positioning now we can advance with the king vichy plays rook b8 h4 check hide behind the pawn anticipate the opponent's play magnus hides behind the pawn and now plays rook at 4 defending his only weakness and rook g4 trying to kick the king out further and maybe potentially push your f pawn that's exactly what we have now the king is reactivated and slides in front of that pawn see how good magnus is he's there oh no now he's gone oh he's oh he just switches it around like no problem rook c8 and now magnus is ready to part ways with that pawn too rook takes c4 we have gone from magnus being two pawns up to magnus being equal in material now he plays f4 to cut the king off rogue goes to a4 and magnus carlson plays h3 and magnus carlsen has gone from up two pawns to down one pawn he sacrificed three pawns but in doing so he has coordinated the only important pieces that he needs that's all he needs he needs to damage the structure and advance with the f-pawn that's it king's position shut down now fun fact in this position right here vichy had to play one move and one move only and that move was deemed by experts to be b4 just stop it with the rook you have to push the pawn because magnus is coming down the board and i will show you why this counter play was so important okay instead he played rook to a4 magnus sacrificed and then brought back the rook the winning idea to guard your weakness patrol the sixth rank and escort the pawn that's the whole point and he does exactly that his king hides vichy tries to push but he's just not fast enough the king runs away from the checks we have rook a8 looking to come around and check and win the queen and rook g1 and here vishy anand resigned again losing back-to-back games and going down two but but if he had played rook if he had played b4 what would have happened all the same all the same but now he has the pawn as the counter play if pawn comes to f3 vishy would go wrap around from the back rook to c7 and for example there is something like rook g2 check but there is also rook f6 if you play rook f6 looking to escort like this i can play rookie 7 check and i will check you until the end of time if you go that way then i will play king to g1 and i will get in front of the pawn but if you hide in front of your pawn that's okay great you can't push your pawn anymore now i'm in time with the counter play if you come in rook g2 like this and this is kind of the main source of play here i give a check let's say you go king d2 i go behind the pawn f2 but i'm just in time with pawn to b6 i'm just in time with my counter play and what will happen is that i will sacrifice the rook for the pawn and by then i will make a new queen just in time okay but in the game we got rook a4 in the game we got rookie 4 now check this out rook a4 h3 gh3 rook g6 now what if here after c4 f3 it was vishy doing the exact same thing rook a7 to try to do the wrap-around defense and push the spawn that one square of tempo changes everything rook to g2 king h1 rookie two the same winning idea to try to bring the king right same idea i just showed you rookie 7 king f2 rook f7 all this but now there's check here and king e2 and you're not fast enough c5 in the other position the pawn's on c6 right that's the difference in the other position the pawns already made it so you're just not quick enough and that's what made the difference in this game and magnus carlsen for a second game in a row takes it beyond 50 moves beyond four or five hours of play and outplays vichy anand in a rook and etc rook and peace end game and now he has a four to two lead and now i'm going to show you a clip because the way chess works is after the matches are done both players sit for the press conference win loser draw chess is a very raw emotional mental draining experience how many of you have thrown something or gotten angry after a loss imagine having to sit in front of a room a journalist many of whom are potentially amateurs of chess asking you silly questions well here's what happened please well i'm still wondering if mr anand could elaborate what he means by doing your best again obviously doing your best means doing your best i don't know why you don't understand english okay so thank you very much for all comments thank you for coming for the press conference so in case you're confused what happened there obviously they already had some press conference already talked about the game a little bit uh and clearly a journalist from earlier in the press conference had asked vichy something and vishy must have answered something along the lines of i'm trying my best and the guy decides to follow up on that and say what do you mean by trying your best and vishy's like what the hell do you think i mean i mean clearly from a place of frustration uh having just lost back-to-back games in the world championship match wanting to go and rest and recover and figure out a game plan chess i can make a compilation of absurd questions that these players get asked at these press conferences uh but instead we will move on to game number nine uh after winning those two games the players made two draws and now magnus carlsen has a 5-3 lead and remember this is a 12-game match okay so uh it's the first person to get six and a half points vishy plays d4 and magnus responds with knight f6 c4 e6 knight to c3 bishop to b4 ain't nem so indian uh the whole point being that you are trying to prevent white from easily expanding with the move e4 pinning the knight to the king white has a lot of ways to play this position queen c2 and e3 are considered the two main lines but vishy plays f3 this is known as the sameish variation intending to play e4 and support it with a pawn magnus strikes back with d5 there are ways to play c5 d5 i believe even knight c6 is some sort of move uh but d5 a3 and now he trades and plays c5 just kind of occupying the center offering this free pawn for capture to triple isolate your pawn so of course vishy does not do that instead vishi takes on d5 and plays e3 this is one of the modern ways to play this position black essentially shuts down white's bishops and says your bishops are never getting out you're going to have to spend uh the majority of the game either preparing to move e4 or ignoring that move altogether and actually well you will notice vichy does exactly of ignoring he plays g4 which again to the untrained eye this looks borderline idiotic i mean it looks like vishy just decided to have some alcohol and and play like this but uh no this is very much a real thing uh black doesn't really have a lot of targets like black's position looks good but because black throws their pawn structure black cannot really create many threats at all uh they can try to get their knight into b3 uh but really it's white who's expanding and so vichy expands on this side and castles magnus drops that knight into b3 it's everything that i said would happen and tries to take some queen side space right playing on the side of the board where he has some clear advantages this she plays knight g3 magnus continues to expand on that side but she says you know what you can have all that side i don't care g5 i'm coming to destroy you and take your soul whippersnapper i'm not gonna lose to no 22 year old all right knight e8 e4 let's go let's go e4 now magnus here nerfs vishi's position a little bit he takes the bishop because you need this bishop to support the expansion of the pawns and while that bishop has not moved yet magnus says i don't want you to have more firepower for your attack so knight takes now he plays a funny move he plays rook a6 a lateral patrolling of the sixth rank pawn to e5 expanding and taking space magnus plays knight c7 looking to attack on the queen side vichy looks to attack on the king side clearly someone's not going to emerge a life i mean in a position like this very rarely will someone emerge safely right b4 now vishy has an option uh he can ignore this pawn and just trudge on forward or he can take uh once and trudge on forward or he can take twice he thinks for a while plays a takes b4 magnus takes back and again there is a trade available uh vichy can ignore the trade and just go this way and say you know magnus have it have it all i'm going in but a lot of decisions to be made vishy spends a while ends up taking the rook and plays this move f5 now you would say well why wouldn't he take this then his center is very unstable and then magnus would be able to create counter play not just on the queen side but on the center and vishi's attack will slow down so instead he does this and you would say well then his center is unstable all the same yeah but now he's arrived you see the game of chess comes down to a tempo one move very often as you've seen from those end games and vishi would just ignore the pawn on c3 and just go straight for the kill so fishy allows the center to be shut down but allows magnus to put this pawn on b3 now he plays queen f4 magnus brings back the knight it's important to defend the potential checkmate square here so you'll notice that that pawn ends up uh that knight ends up on e8 protecting the checkmate square magnus plays g6 when you play a move like g6 you're basically stating to your opponent that they have a red carpet to come and checkmate you right but you are going to meet the potential queen infiltration with knight to e8 i mean it looks like magnus is just on the verge of death just truly on the verge of death like vichy is just going to play this this and mate and it's over but magnus had calculated that he was just in time with this move because rook to f4 b1 queen if the bishop blocks because of course you're not gonna block with the rook if you block the rook i'm gonna sack my new queen and this happened by the way by the way there is a promotion magnus carlsen is up a queen if bishop f1 then magnus has one move and one move only you can try to find that move you can try to find this uh defensive idea uh if you'd like feel free to pause here i will take a quick sip of my water that idea ladies and gentlemen is the move queen to d1 and the idea is to play queen h5 rook h4 and sacrifice the queen and this looks completely ludicrous because after takes takes takes i mean it just looks like it's made but it's not because there is bishop to f5 and the only two squares on which you can get mated are covered now the computer still evaluates this as equal white can throw in both pawns and there's some draw in the future but vichy's obviously trying to win and it's late in the match so he needs to win but vichy played knight to f1 instead of bishop to f1 uh and this move uh he said in the press conference after was designed because after queen d1 there is rook h4 queen h5 the same idea take take it looks like that's it the white has no more attack but knight to e3 and there is no way to prevent white from taking and getting in this knight for example if you play bishop to e6 i will take with the bishop instead and if you take i'm not going this way i'm going that way and you're dead you're dead i'm infiltrating you're dead you cannot stop my attack anymore so vichy saw that and played bishop and played knight to f1 but he forgot that it's not about this anymore it's about this move queenie won and when you land the rook i'm just going to take it i'm just going to take it and you don't have an attack anymore and i'm coming with my queen to get all my rent money and after queen e1 he resigned the position is completely lost bishop f1 would have still led to a potential victory and maybe a draw but it was knight f1 tragically and queenie one played in magnus carlson took a three-game lead with round 10 11 and 12 to go now before we talk about the um the kind of conclusion to the match i will just quickly show you the press conference after round number nine but actually you spend also a lot of time after this remove did you try really to calculate all these complications all these variations till the end somehow or this was it possible no i was thinking what to eat tonight so in case you missed that the press conference host after vichy just was explaining things for minutes and minutes and minutes uh asks him uh when he spent a lot of time on one of the moves uh was he calculating all those lines you know how can he explain calculating all those lines and she's like no i was thinking about what to eat for dinner tonight uh and actually that's anastasia carlovich she's a very very good press conference host but uh i think in that moment like what are you supposed to ask the guy right and that's one of the things about these press conferences is they're so difficult and oftentimes it's really difficult to interview somebody who's losing because you're down three games i mean that's it it's rounds 10 11 12. you're down 6-3 it's really hard to find a question and so in trying to find a question uh she tried to ask him you know something and it it it wasn't a great question but the next game of the match ended in a draw it was a hard fought draw and magnus carlsen uh won the match he won six and a half three and a half to become world chess champion and uh it was a big deal you know uh it was first of all it was very cool that the event was held in india because uh this was you know vishi is an icon in india we have a lot of indian fans here on youtube uh vishi is just an absolute icon a game changer uh just absolute legend of the game and uh this was a big generational shift because the two are 20 years apart and the fact that vichy is still to this day a top level player at the age of 50 is incredible in and of itself uh vichy went on to win the next candidate cycle and challenge magnus carlsen once again for the next world championship that will be a video in the future but i did want to make this video to show you how magnus actually ascended took advantage of a good opportunity a little bit of a break despite losing the last round of the candidates earlier that year to win in dominant fashion vichy himself said that magnus dominated the match and vishy said that his approach to the match was understanding that he would have to survive those long battles versus magnus which is interesting think about that vichy said he understood magnus's style and he wanted to be able to survive and deal with it but that's an interesting approach because you're acknowledging you will be playing at your opponent's pace potentially so maybe uh and again this is just very abstract big picture and you cannot revise history maybe you need to you need to jump out to your own kind of pace and your own style which is just not easy chess is just it's not that abstract at the end of the day there are moves being made on the board and you need to you need to make the good moves um but that's uh that's how 2013 shaped up so hopefully you enjoyed this video please let me know if there's anything you'd like me to cover in historical chess archives in the future and i will see you in the next one peace out get out of here

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Published: Sat May 08 2021