How Magnus Carlsen CRUSHES Chess Masters

ladies and gentlemen when you're one of the best chess grand masters in the world believe it or not you don't really play much outside of the top 10 to 15 players why well because all of the super grand masters are constantly invited to invitationals where they basically play against each other and you meet familiar faces all the time but there are exceptions and some of these players do play against 24 25 2600 rated players at the olympiad at the world cup and at various rapid and blitz events and that's the point of this video i'm going to show you how magnus carlsen takes on and defeats regular grandmasters regular normal grandmasters and international masters he does not always cut through them like a boss saw and sometimes has to really show some incredible defense i've tried to select three games with white three games with black timestamps are on the video player and the first one that we're beginning with um this one actually inspired the whole video this is a game that he played just recently in september 2021 against enrique yobe corte whose last name is awesome he has double sets of double l's which is so cool this is at the european team championship and magnus carlson with the white pieces goes for a rossellimo sicilian now he has played this many times with colors reversed because magnus likes to play the knight c6 sicilian there's a very legitimate chance that enrique might have studied the magnus carlsen games to play this defense with black and so d6 this is a bit of a sideline normally against the rossolimo you have e6 and you have g6 they're considered the main lines sometimes knight f6 d6 is a slight sideline and um it's a sideline because white can actually take the knight and damage the structure right away uh and but doesn't always have to do that white can also just castle there's many lines so what we're going to see throughout this video as a recurring theme is several elements and here's the first one magnus carlsen deviating out of pretty well-known theory pretty early against an individual and it might not be the most critical line but it sets you practical difficulties that an engine can solve but most human beings can't necessarily for example in this position the engine tries to tell me that f6 is possible to go like this i just don't know if you can do this with a straight face at the board um and this gentleman takes and now we have the second kind of portion of uh of learning from these magnus games the structure magnus loves to go for positions with unique structures and that actually becomes very clear right here when after bishop takes f3 he does not take on d5 and go for a queen trade which could result in um the knight going to c7 and there's getting trapped in the corner but the bishop is escaping by taking the pawn and running no magnus just goes for this he just beeline straight for an end game on move 11 with the following pawn structure and he just plays these positions now spoiler alert you've obviously clicked on the video because he's going to win all these games but how that's really what we're after here because the gentleman with the black pieces is a really damn good player i mean he's one of the best players on earth he's just among a group of a couple thousand like myself this person is 50 points higher rated than i am yeah we're like in the top couple thousand players on earth and there's potentially millions but how does magnus do it well let's begin knight to f6 already potentially a slight inaccuracy believe it or not because it's not actually clear if the knight wants to be there or if the knight wants to be on f5 with upon supporting it on e6 believe it or not this knight if it can land here it's already black has potentially equalized knight h6 poses some practical problems and white might actually have to go for the c5 pawn and force black to either you know defend it or or actually sacrifice it to gain some initiative with knight d4 um so we have knight f6 d3 e6 and magnus is actually now first to pose practical issues and the other thing is like if magnus can somehow get this position well he's already tremendously improved his structure because his pawns are now undoubled and black has frozen structure for the rest of the game this is completely completely advantageous for white even with the bishops and the rooks on the board and you think material is equal but magnus moves his knight out this way to force the knight to be passive and plays the move b3 so black cannot sacrifice the pawn at any moment and damage white structure white structure will kind of stay together castles rook a to g1 leaving this rook to kind of suffocate for now because we don't know exactly what's going on king h8 and now magnus plays potentially a counter-intuitive move the move d4 what didn't we just say we don't want to undouble black structure well yeah but now we're threatening a move over here so we're going to force one of black's pawns forward f6 all right fantastic now this pawn could be a weakness but we know it's going to go to e5 most likely rook g4 the move rook g4 anticipates the move e5 so that we can slide back and now the rook transfers not there that's not that the there there to c4 uh or or we don't know i mean we we that's most likely what's going to happen but we never we maybe we use the rook to break through the structure over here so rook d8 and now this h rook comes alive to the center file king g8 uh i guess to try to bring the king back to the middle and defend things and that's exactly what we get rook c4 95 still the player with the black piece is obviously defending and attacking now we have a rook trade you see magnus is not afraid of just generalizing something like oh well i don't want to trade pieces because then i'm not going to win the game what no he just he leaves you with passive play like this rook which has not moved in 25 turns and now rook before and now the rook will not move for some more turns because if you if you move the rook and then i take the a7 pawn hey five magnus infiltrates the king has to come up and now the knight transfers like i mean 25 moves have gone by and white is completely winning it's not even exactly clear what black did wrong that's how magnus makes it feel sometimes um f5 he picks up the pawn now he's also attacking g7 he gives a check forcing the king to walk directly into this line of sight and like i've been saying completely unafraid to make exchanges he trades off the bishop for the night this is under pressure the pawns are still split this is under pressure bishop d4 and he did it all he did it all with this structure he didn't really care about that structure at all king f6 he gets the second pawn and black resigns and this video is just going to be mostly that that's just going to be a little bit more of that but there are going to be plot twists and you're going to see exactly what i'm talking about okay for our second game carlson has now the black pieces like i said we're gonna be alternating this is 2018 this is the world blitz championship so it's not uh it's not like an extremely prestigious thing compared to classical chess but okay i mean it's the world championship of blitz there are many many good players including the russians the russians are really well known for like some of these players being ims but like 25 2600 level in blitz uh and so we have a london so what does magnus play against the london well he plays a very quick bishop d6 and he delays c5 so you play c5 after you play bishop d6 so that you can play queen c7 knight d7 for a while this setup was actually beginning to be the optimal way to play against the london like a lot of the top guys were doing it um and uh like i mean magnus wesley just to name a few you put the knight on d7 instead of on c6 where you have more support of the c5 pawn your knight cannot be pinned uh well it can but not on the c6 square um so anyway but the london is completely equal you can play as much of the optimal setup as you'd like but see there you go so mr uh uh i don't know if that's uh galubov or uh gulibov or yeah anyway that's actually a name that kind of stumps me even though i speak russian fluently uh but anyway de 94 queen c7 so this is the other thing uh last last game uh magnus got to a pretty unorthodox position and outplayed by structure here there's no outplaying by structure really it's just a typical london position you either wait for your opponent to self-destruct or you start creating complications well the opponent takes on f6 and takes on c5 and both players castle so what the hell is going on it's completely equal it's completely equal and unlike the last game there aren't obvious imbalances the only imbalance that you can kind of choose from is what the pieces see and the structure so i mean three on two and four on three that's basically it and i guess where you can put your pieces so uh savely plays rook 81 uh rook fd8 and naturally you would probably play rookie here but okay white just plays h3 magnus plays h6 because you might as well keep waiting for your opponent now the other thing is you're probably playing quickly because it's blitz you're gonna let your opponent be the one to think because you're the world champ you could do whatever you want bishop goes back to c2 offering some exchanges magnus plays a5 the idea of a5 being maybe in the vague future of bishop a6 not right now actually because then you would get hit with rook d8 rook d8 queen a6 uh but now you're also maybe gonna go a4 a3 if this pawn gets to a3 white loses because you undermine the integrity of all these pawns so now white has some practical problems and decides to be lined for some trades because naturally all magnus had to do was raise his hand to slap you like a good parent with a child i don't condone uh slapping your kids unless absolutely necessary a5 and white is like uh let's let's trade some pieces let's really trade some pieces and magnus is like yeah let's also trade queens so naturally you're like well if i trade if i trade all those pieces the guy can't beat me with his king right so i gotta probably take it and magnus is like that's all i needed now admittedly queen d5 is a very tricky thing uh probably the best move here is to play bishop b3 um to at least force this so that your knight is always protected uh you might be able to get away with other stuff yeah like the engine says to play like a3 uh yeah a3 and basically get taken here's the problem if you take you can guard your pawn folks what is the best move for black here see if you can play like magnus carlsen there is one and only and it looks like silly bishops are better than knights right not right now that's all magnus needs structure overlapping concept knight and six versus bishop and six here we go knight d5 knight f4 control of the dark squares dark square structure over here now if white plays the move b4 here folks do you take or let's say king h2 uh and you play like king f8 b4 do you take no you don't take you don't want to give white a two on one situation because then white will make this past pawn that's going to be very difficult to defend and if you play b5 you're going to lose this pawn and then you're going to lose the game no you actually stand your ground so that if this happens it's not a past pawn on the a file it's a pass pawn on the c file and that's a lot closer to you and you can stop it magnus carlsen is well aware of this um because in the future the move b4 does get played and um he just jumps into e2 and scoops up this pawn you see he's well aware of this and uh yeah very simply brings his king the only light square structure he puts up is one that his king can stay behind and protect uh and what i mean by that is if these pawns were on light squares they would be gobbled up so he doesn't keep those pawns on light squares he hunts down this pawn he has an active king white's entire structure is frozen and well he gets to that pawn now cues even though he's not up any pawns only one pawn needs to survive and magnus carlsen wins the game in the utmost simplest fashion by blocking the bishop from the a2 square and promoting a queen absolutely effortless play and with that we will go to the third game now we are back to classical chess this is the qatar open the qatar masters or maybe the qatar open i don't know if the word charger masters i believe is the is that tournament uh over there uh and then his opponent is daniel yufa um i hope i'm pronouncing that well uh i mean i know i'm pronouncing daniel correctly but uh i don't know about yuffa uh and very strong grand master from russia i believe uh and we have a king's indian sort of defense uh king's indian defense with a fiance variation by white yeah so this is the opening nothing interesting or enterprising just yet well the move knight c6 is relatively rare i mean sometimes black will play c6 or a6 or but here he plays knight c6 and bishop f5 this is kind of interesting you're trying to occupy the center with pieces instead of pawns uh and here there's many theoretical lines and this is another kind of opening wrinkle magnus carlsen plays something that is not that popular it's like in this position the sixth most popular seventh most popular move and it's the move bishop to g5 now on its own that move isn't entirely impressive he's just developing a piece but the idea is that he probably wants to take um i doubt he would have backed up and tried to attack this pawn you know you go in like this and you can even play like queen d2 rook c1 maybe e3 e4 you decide in the future just a very solid structure but black plays knight e4 and plays the position like this occupying the e4 square not allowing white to move forward whatsoever so magnus has played his opening wrinkle what will he do now and how will he transform the position advantageously for himself he's going to play the move d5 this is always a question when you put your knight in front of your pawns like this where is it going to go if you play the move knight to e5 uh this doesn't work tactically because i take if you take on g2 i can throw in like this move for example desperado that's what that's called because you're gonna lose this knight anyway so you sacrifice it for a pawn attacking the queen and now you're just a pawn up you're just lost and bishop b2 there's rook b1 rook b7 um so uh that's not going to work so we have bishop f3 first and now rather than playing the normal looking move which is this agnes doubles his own structure why would he do that what benefit does this move give him more king protection but he wasn't really worried about that rookie won the open e file which he wouldn't have gotten if he took with the bishop and he really puts that e file to use by playing the move rookie four this is a very interesting move this position has been reached just a few times before trying to get two pieces for the the rook uh which would just be winning for white so c5 magnus carlsen is a cultured individual so he takes on basant of course uh knight c6 and now he plays h4 again uh you leave a super gm by them by themselves they're obviously going to play this move on the one hand bishop b2 is hanging on the other hand it's not hanging at all because you might not even take on b7 i mean sure you can but h5 is just as scary and by the way that entire maneuver now that rook might get to h4 i'm not saying it will but i'm saying that it's absolutely a possibility that's fascinating all comes from e takes f3 one very small change of the position uh but here black plays queen b6 um and even though magnus is threatening a big attack he calmly slides the rook over rook b1 rook b1 now b2 obviously cannot be taken because this is like tying your shoes together and trying to play hopscotch so a5 and that's the beginning of the mistakes by black a5 looks kind of necessary because you never know when b4 can happen like if a6 magnus might play h5 he could also very well play this move and you can't take it because again it's like tying your shoes together there's no reason to do this so black plays a5 but magnus is like well i'm gonna slide my bishop out because it's actually blocking my attack you move your queen and now here comes h5 now the position is not lost it's just difficult to play practically so what does black do black has a couple options uh one of black's top engine choices apparently is a4 which just looks absolutely stupid so no human should play that move black begins to strike back in the center however even though you might secure the d4 square you have now really weakened your light squares magnus plays queen d2 potentially going to h6 with the bishop knight comes to d4 that's all part of the plan and now this move that's an interesting move because that's not really what we were expecting with the move queen to d2 why would you play that i don't understand okay f f5 well if bishop f6 for example i'll tell you what the idea was but i'll tell you what the idea was with this move f5 danger levels right i guess carlson ain't scared of that give me that knight wait what yeah that's why he played h6 so that in this position the constant looming dark squared threat wouldn't be able to be ignored there is no way to trade this queen off you play queen c5 you get mated you play rookie 7 trying to play queen c5 i play f4 and even though i doubled my structure a moment ago the bishop comes to d5 and you absolutely die so all these squares near your king i've won control of them and even if you can go to f8 i have queen h8 so technically i have one control of all the squares and um black plays bishop by f8 magnus now slides the bishop back again we've seen this twice slide the bishop back to make room for the other pieces uh queen c4 actually not a bad move at all preventing the queen from moving but now white wins by reactivating this bishop and uh b3 kicks the queen out black is trying to sacrifice the rook to kind of get rid of the light square bishop it's actually not a bad idea at all but now magnus carlsen ends the game by sliding the bishop back for a third time and there is just simply no way to prevent the regrouping and the infiltration to the opposite side of the board it's a very pretty position actually because if you play something like bishop h6 thinking you got rid of the pawn maybe now i take but i don't have to you can't you can't prevent it i'm telling you what i'm gonna do and you just can't do anything about it and black played d5 magnus played rook c1 and black resigned because even though you can actually maybe get back and block the like block like this uh well i still have queen d5 so you're gonna die on one of the diagonals i mean he just makes it look so easy right like he just he plays a slight slightly different way of playing an opening and he just makes it look so simple but this next game was anything but simple so this game is in 29 i think this is the next game yes so this game is gonna we're gonna try to get through this game because it was like 80 moves long we're obviously not going to spend a whole lot of time but this is a game he played with black against vincent kaimer in the first round uh in the in the in the grandkid chess classic which is uh it has an open section and a closed section of like some of the top gm's and vincent kymer was like and still is the german prodigy uh and he won the open section to qualify for the masters to play carlson caruana all these players round one super hype matchup and magnus plays us pretty strange king's indian move order and then plays like this e5 he just closes the center completely so there's the opening wrinkle he doesn't allow his opponent to kind of play any super comfortable theory his opponent is like 15 16. uh and then magnus brings the knight back to e8 and the way he played this game was absolutely fascinating so kymer played very principled he took on f5 which is what you're supposed to do and then played the move for this is exactly like a normal way to meet the king's indian and then here if white plays a bl if black plays e4 closing the center which actually did occur here um it's pretty locked and it's pretty difficult to actually make progress so what did magnus do in the most counter-intuitive of fashions he traded his bishop for the night rendering white structure immobile and that's actually an interesting thing to do against the lower rated player who's 2500 gm it's like younger player not potentially not as experienced potentially playing on their nerves and creating imbalance in the position okay um but as you're going to see throughout this game that actually didn't prove to be super successful so knight f6 bishop e3 and here kymer started coming up with a very interesting idea he anticipated what magnus was going to be doing on the queen side and so he decided to secure everything and launch a kingside initiative where he actually had a more mobile structure magnus here played one of the most absurd ideas i've ever seen in my life he played this and took chemer's other knight what now the engine hates it of course but he's just playing on closed position ideas bishops versus knights and he anticipates kymer's only way of playing forward is g4 and let me tell you something vincent kymer walked his king out of the way and then shut down all queen side counter play of b5 and when he was ready met magnus on the king side of rendering his knights immobile completely and was ready to play g4 this is a battle and a half okay magnus might have tried to create imbalance but he's really playing with a hot stove so rook f8 and a few moves later we finally have g4 and vincent kymer is closing in on maybe a decisive advantage like it all the momentum is with him so the other thing that the other way you beat people when you're magnus carlsen uh is you you put up unbelievably like creative and complex defense so he makes it really tough for kymer to like decide whether to launch all his pawns forward in some case kymer doesn't even want this pawn because his queen would just be able to fly down the h-file so how is he going to make progress well magnus makes it a battle on the other side of the board and now g6 g6 wasn't the most accurate move uh the most accurate move if i'm not mistaken was like either to play h4 or the engine even wanted you to just lose this pawn which is really hard to convince yourself to do against magnus so he gets to close that up he plays rook b8 and kymer continues to walk his king like i said very locked battle look at this eighth-ranked defense baby very karpovian but evaluation zero zero zero because how does white break through well kymer keeps trying he now activates his king directly but that comes with a price that comes with a price right and he's he's trying to get in over here so he goes back and by the way he's offering magnus the pawn you know why he's offering him this pawn because that would open the g file magnus takes it h4 queen h3 magnus is now uh on the upper hand of this game right but here come the pieces so as much as kymer uh lost his pawn he actually created some openings for his position i'm so bad at drawing arrows today i've hung a queen like three times just for my arrow drawing not too much is happening some shuffling how is magnus gonna break through i mean it's like borderline impossible right whatever the engine says you'll notice that camera is literally just shuffling back and forth like i'm gonna draw magnus carlsen yo like i'm a beast and now magnus goes over here rook f7 oh kymer's coming forward with a5 he didn't maybe he didn't have to but magnus was about to start potentially doing some stuff of his own so kaima breaks and now he's pressuring on this side of the board i told you this is a long game we still have like a whole game to go looks like magnus has no play at all okay but now here comes this maybe we have this in the future maybe we have the queen infiltrating over there ruchi seven all right we're trading pieces now now we're back in an end game and the engine hates this position for black thinks that white has absolutely zero problems now so magnus just sends the a pawn for a mission all right look at this what the hell is going on if you take this i sneak the pawn behind all of your forces it it's such an endurance battle to play magnus it and now he's like yo trade queens with you man play a2 climber can take on f5 knight f6 who's even up upon nobody it's five pawns each this is move what move is this 65 you've now played four and a half five hours versus magnus he's torturing you with queen side pressure on your structure you take on a3 and now you have to find one move king to b3 apparently going for this to attack this take take take uh sorry take take and you have to know that this is a draw you have to go for this end game and you have to know what to draw even though black is significantly more active can kind of threaten everything and you have to calculate that after king g5 king a4 knight h5 take take king b5 king g4 king c6 h5 king d6 h4 king c5 h3 d6 h2 d7 h1 d8 that you're fine you have to calculate 12 moves technically 24 because each player gets two and realize that you're actually winning this end game yeah instead of that vincent kaimer goes bishop f2 and now magnus is able to go for the same ideas uh except keep some pieces on the board defend his entire structure and he has one more flank pawn and he ends up with all these past pawns beating up the light squad bishop and the game is decided on move 81. yeah so there's a lot of stuff that just happened strange opening create imbalance uh and the endurance needed to actually continuously pressure vincent camera did fantastic in this game he did honestly really really well but on move 66 you make one slip up because you didn't calculate 24 ply or is it 12 ply i don't know but basically means that you have to calculate all of that all the way to the end and constantly deal with holy crap the entire world is watching me potentially not lose to magnus carlsen and there you go all right fifth game uh this is magnus carlson versus nicola jukich i hopefully pronounced correctly from montenegro uh grand master this is the olympiad in 2014 if i'm not mistaken and we have a scandinavian defense which is by the way really effing bold to play against magnus carlsen um even though it's a decent you know it's a decent defense uh and magnus doesn't play any theory whatsoever and plays this to defend his d-pawn and then just fiance's bishop and castles he's just not interested in playing any sort of theoretical battle he's like i have the bishop pair i have more space let's see what we can do castles a3 like imagine you're just sitting there at the olympiad here's the colors reversed we're going to be in nikola shoes you're just sitting there calculating like okay you know i just castled let's see what magnus comes up with uh we're not in any sort of theory magnus just plays a3 like all the pressure in the world is now on you i mean do you just copy him with a6 do you slide like where do you put any of your pieces anyway we're not interested in being in their shoes we're interested in being magnus magnus's shoes so rook d1 b3 slow play this should be two you your opponent needs to take the first lunge in a lot of these positions and the thing about magnus is you lunge out and he's anderson silva all right and he makes you look like forrest griffin you tripping all over the place he knocks you out like it's absolutely nothing so bishop b2 and finally black is ready with the movie five it's actually a very principled move because magnus has kind of played slowly now he's backing up here comes e5 okay c4 he's like you want to change the structure no problem you have to do it on my terms because if you wait for one more move i go here i kick out your bishop and then i play b4 and by the time we make this trade your bishop will never get out and um your position sucks i have two bishops uh so take take bishop e5 active calmly slide the queen out of the way not worried about moving backwards not worried about making moves that seemingly look useless like like a3 earlier i'm not even sure he had to play a3 but he played it just let the opponent do something and the engine here says that the opponent should play h5 and h4 in fact the computer says that literally the entire middle game c5 attacking the knight what did c5 weaken where does magnus carlsen go for the rest of the game routing his knight to f5 to e3 now we will have a battle for the square b6 b4 now we will have a battle for the queen side now i'm going to trade rooks with you and now we're going to straight like this because when you played c5 you gave me a target and you gave me a square to potentially exploit so i'm going to go for those exact things now i'm threatening to take and slide into b6 for example take take queen b6 black resides literally black resigns because i threaten all your queen side and my bishop is really strong on g2 all it took is for the opponent to push one pawn twice e5 c5 cb a b now we have a little imbalance here maybe i'm going for b5 maybe i'm going for c5 maybe i'm going for knight d5 you don't know what i'm gonna do i'm magnus carlsen queen c3 rook d3 that's so cute that you thought that activating two pieces was going to do anything i'm just going to go back all the way to the corner now uh please tell me how you're going to defend your pawn and this knight h oh oh there's oh there's h oh i'm so scared there's h5 um if you play a5 in this position for a brief moment it does look like you are protecting everything it does but now i just go here and now you're not you have no way to continue to defend this queen d6 c5 and if you're like ho ho back rank mate literally you can block it with any piece well not mate you would lose your queen for the rook but then you would also lose your knight so h5 takes magnus is like yeah you should have done this like 10 turns ago rook d2 c5 just not afraid not afraid of anything absolutely everything's fine takes b5 by the way just so you understand that's a breakthrough sacrifice and the pawn has an escort of rook bishop and queen and magnus plays b6 now two is credit like actually does create a little bit of counter play forcing magnus to return queen trade but the pawn goes to b7 and you can play rook b4 but rook d1 i'm not really threatening to take but i'm threatening to play g5 which would win the game so you go here attacking my bishop and this would have been prettier but he just slides back knight c2 hits the rook rogue goes to d5 now we're threatening to take and remove the knight from the defense of the promotion square and now we just take this pawn so this comes black resigns if black goes here i mean it's you're gonna lose in some time bishop d5 bishop e6 bishop c6 whatever completely effortless i mean just like no problems whatsoever doesn't play any sort of theory gets to bishop's position reroutes this piece to control a certain square black moves one pawn reroutes all his pieces to target that weakness and now we're going to go to the final game this is a game from the isle of man in 2017 versus eugene perelstein he's a grand master well obviously the name is like the most russian name of all time actually i don't know if eugene is russian i don't want to you know he might be ukrainian and he wouldn't take too kindly to being called russian but he lives in the united states over on the east coast i believe um and magnus goes for d4 g6 and plays the modern defense and uh uh the modern defense is kg like it's not good for black the engine does not like it for black it thinks white has a super universal setup and can push the advantage with virtually no problems and eugene goes for this pawn sacrifice e5 and if black takes on e5 right away like like this for example um there's bishop e4 it's like super unpleasant to deal with this uh so he sacrifices the pawn on e6 and renders black stuck defending this e6 pawn castles and i believe that here magnus plays a move that hasn't been played a lot like i don't think queen d7 is a move i don't remember exactly what the move is though maybe knight f6 so here's the position magnus is up upon he has forced his opponent to play critically which means that now his opponent has to play energetically and accurately throughout the game because he's given up a pawn to maintain initiative eugene plays rookie one and a four this is a very principled move the engine even liked it over here and the point is that obviously you'd like to win the queen or just blow up the queen side but if b4 which is what normally happens to keep it a bit more closed knight a2 is the idea um and as you're going to see that actually happens in the game and and um yeah here uh magnus calls the second bluff and plays queen takes a4 which just looks utterly ridiculous no development whatsoever wandering off to take a bit of free pawn it is a free pawn and it defends this and yeah i mean there's a discovered attack but it's nothing really scary so queenie two and now well when you don't know what to do you might as well play defense with your king i think the most accurate move was at some point to play c5 i don't remember if here or maybe a move ago but like i said it's a kg position and this is the biggest risk magnus has taken all video against kaimur it was you know two bishops versus two nights it was it was a bit you know dirty boxing this is like bro like this dude is he doesn't give he doesn't give a okay like he is that he's up two pawns and he's like you're gonna have to beat me you want to beat me you got to beat me so bishop goes back to d2 b3 he just still just b3 like i would lose a position like this with black in five turns five turns because you can't move if you play knight d7 there's you can't move any pieces so he plays b3 now it seems like he's simply out of material he has given up the pawn so he's now not up two pawns but one where's his next move like i'm saying this is a position i would lose with no problems with black i my opponent could be 2100 i would probably lose i mean what do you move rook b8 okay fantastic rook b8 rook b8 giving up your a pawn but not actually because then this and also the bishop is relieved of pressure over here so rook a3 knight d5 okay magnus has found the move knight e4 whites could have gone for g6 stuff and opening up stuff over here but knight e4 can't i mean it's unbelievable okay so pederstein is just continuously attacking with h4 queen eight like but you know his position is kind of solid so bishop a6 and it's a position where you have to play that's the thing you can't just sit you got to play right i mean i suppose brittle slam could have played king h1k1 for the rest of the game but then magnus would have probably come up with something so bishop a6 he does take now magnus plays bishop f6 and maybe wants to play king g7 i don't know we're gonna see what he does he still can't move any of his pawns knight d7 knight goes back to c3 um queen e2 queen f7 like magnus still can't move any pawn if you notice he hasn't moved any pawn he just hasn't moved the single pawn and pederstein is slowly improving his position he takes on f6 maybe a little bit too too committal because now you've actually allowed magnus to get connect 5 which i know there's connect eight at the beginning of the game but not on the sixth rank so queen e6 so perel stein is like alright i'm tired of waiting god damn it i'm gonna take on f6 and i have this and i have a slightly better end game because i am up a pawn and i don't care that i'm playing the goat of end games i'm a pawn out what the hell is he going to do to me magnus is like king f7 rookie one rook b8 thank you eugene for taking the pressure off of me because now i am able to demonstrate your split structure is not going to phase fair very well in this end game rook c1 knight c8 look how strong this knight on d5 is by the way and this bishop is sort of useless as well knight e7 knight d3 eugene does the right thing because the knight wasn't doing anything on f3 now here comes g5 nice idea to open up the h file and also not allow anything to come to f4 the engine here by the way thinks that the best thing for white to do is to just let him take on h4 blocking his own entry and allowing f4 to exist now no human being plays that move in a million years you do this but that gives magnus the h file and that's all he needs because everything else is completely solid here comes rook h1 now you're sitting there going what the f i was up two pawns against this guy sorry sorry sorry sorry sir reverse i was down two pawns against this guy but i was pressuring him and he had no moves he had to give me a pawn back god damn it why is he beating me in an end game down a pawn how am i losing an end game down upon i don't know if eugene was actually thinking that i would be thinking that rook h2 magnus hunts the king out all the way by even sacking his g-pawn to play takes takes takes he's still upon down but he's isolated the king on the edge of the board and you never know at which moment these pieces might want their rent money and he's also got the king and by the way have these pieces even moved are they asleep right it's crazy and so magnus plays f5 check king h3 and remember you're entering the third fourth hour of play so you're also tired now material is equal and literally immediately eugene was able to move both his pieces and go forward with b6 and he was forced to resign after takes takes knight e4 why did he resign the threat knight g5 check king h4 check you can't stop it you can't stop it first of all if you play this well then you just die even faster you're like ah that cliff is really far away i'm just gonna run and fall off of it um and uh if you move your bishop or let's say you play rook b1 to try to defend then it's check here check on f3 and it's made and that's it and that's how magnus carlsen won this game i know it was a pretty long video but i hope you enjoyed it very much and there are many many many more examples of this it took me a couple like an hour to research you know games with white and with black that magnus has won in relatively meaningful tournaments because he also plays a lot of online stuff so that's how he does it constant pressure uh in terms of the structure of the position sublime ability to defend even the slightest unpleasantries and endurance and definitely elements of psychology but obviously i can't speak for every individual who has ever played him some people might be rock solid psychologically some people might be like holy i'm playing magnus carlsen hopefully you enjoyed the video if you made it this far thank you so much i appreciate you very much and if there's any other kind of videos you want me to cover that i haven't covered yet do let me know in the comments peace out get out of here

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Length: 38min 35sec (2315 seconds)

Published: Sat Oct 23 2021