Magnus Carlsen Beats His 1st Grandmaster!

magnus carlsen is obviously the best player in the world today but how did he get started on his journey this is a question i set out to answer and make a video about because i realized that was kind of a black hole on youtube when did magnus carlsen beat his first grandmaster the answer is in this video politican cup 2003 magnus is 12 and a half years old and he's playing a tournament in denmark which is now called the extra con open it's round number five and magnus's opponent is christopher ward who is an english grandmaster and an author and it's actually funny when i saw this i um i was like wait a minute i think i have a christopher ward book on the sicilian dragon and i i did from you know ancient times ago so in this video i'm gonna show you this game from round five but i'm also going to show you a bonus game which i haven't included in the title i haven't included in the thumbnail nowhere so be happy you clicked on the video because you're going to have a bonus game here as well from the same tournament magnus begins with d4 and apparently he had prepared for this game by analyzing the nimso indian book that his opponent had written now in 2003 there were severe limitations compared to the year 2021 on the availability of chest material like you had to be really good with your research you really had to be in the the ocean of chess kind of full time so um magnus plays knight to f3 now nowadays uh when you play knight f3 knight c3 you're going to get d5 you're going to get a queens game but declined rogozin defense very popular but back in the day you would get b6 the point of which that you know you want to play bishop b7 or sometimes the bishop to a6 magnus plays bishop g5 pinning the knight the bishop is promptly questioned at arrival kind of like at the airport bishop h4 and now black has the option to either just continue developing or play this aggressive move g5 which i can only imagine is what christopher ward recommended in his book uh bishop g394 now this is also very common nowadays especially in the ragosan defense with bishop before you attack your opponents bishop you kick it out and then you play knight e4 to target this knight on c3 oftentimes you will supplement that with f5 and yes you have overextended the pawns near your king but you've gained a lot of space and it's very difficult for white to actually crack that structure we have queen c2 bishop to b7 maintaining this tension here this is very well protected and e3 and white is about to play bishop d3 and kick the knight out for good and the more pieces i can clear out of the center the higher chance i have of attacking your king further on since you've overextended so we have takes takes and this move knight takes g3 now knight takes g3 optically looks really weird to me i'm not gonna lie um it seems a lot more normal to play something like f5 and d6 and basically just clamp down on white's position like why would you trade more pieces when you don't have the bishop pair and you have overextended pawns near your king but knight takes g3 doesn't lose the game by any stretch of the imagination and here magnus plays a really peculiar move but definitely a move that he did not invent um when i ask you what is the more natural recapture of course you will say the h-pawn you open up your rook uh you're not threatening to take with the rook hanging because the queen is protecting but you just it's much better looking move but magnus plays fg uh which is a super strange move uh clearly preparation though in a move that has been played before and the point of this move is like if black continues with something like f5 for example you actually can play g4 you can use that broken limb to smack your opponent in the face with it uh and of course it takes queen g6 and black just loses black is just completely lost because knight e5 is coming and okay you will not get mated now but you will get mated sooner than later uh g4 that's a little anthem there for my single people knight to h4 queen g5 and queen d2 of course we have to defend our weakness and now magnus will play bishop d3 he will play short castle he will utilize the fact that this little wall of pawns is actually quite good at safeguarding his king and the benefit of playing ftag g3 is when you castle you will have the open file for the rook this is all part of the preparation knight c6 bishop comes out to d3 very natural move and here black has a couple of ways of playing but he plays uh he plays knight to e7 and that move fights for the complex over here to counteract that knight also reactivates the bishop also opens up whatever flexibility of pawns that you'd like to thrust into the center of the board and furthermore you can transfer the knight like you're fighting for those squares but you can also just move there and trade so we have castles and we have f5 he decides to counteract the open rook by making it impossible to really break into the structure also chris ward gets connect four which is nice uh but this position actually has still been reached in this game and also a game like 10 15 years pla player prior uh and i believe that grand master with the black pieces is gula sax who is one of the he doesn't gula doesn't suck at chess the last name is sax s-a-x which as an american should be said sax like saxophone but i'm pretty sure it sucks and i believe gulia sucks was hungarian i really hope i'm not messing that up i probably should double check that on my second monitor but i'm going to gamble maybe i'm wrong tell me if i'm wrong a4 why a4 well you've kind of solved your problem of your king's positioning on the king side you've castled um but you can't really do anything in the center you're not equipped to attack in the center so we play a4 to try to instigate with a5 now normally you just play a5 here for black i mean you see your opponent wants to play a5 so you play a5 yourself that's what i would play the problem with that move is now you've destabilized this and now i will play rook b1 and i will try to play c5 because you've given me another target chris ward obviously didn't like that so he just played short castle he was not afraid of a5 and magnus said alright well if you're gonna let me play five i'm gonna play a5 let this be a little lesson for all of you in wing pawn flank pawn kind of side pawn infiltration so useful so useful as you see it's very difficult for your opponent to decide whether to actually stop you or not and this can open up a new front of attack like now you just have a rook here and your rook is pressuring this way in this way and white is just much better with that very simple pawn exchange it's already like this position is zeros and this position oh sorry that's the move that actually happened in the game but this position is like plus 1.5 for white because if you just completely seamlessly improve your position with no no like cost i mean what cost if a move like knight c6 comes you can play your rook here and again the more you make your opponent move and react to you the better it is like this whole little maneuver that you've just got undergone here you've weakened d6 you've split the pawns you've weakened these pieces success all by playing a4a5 now chris ward plays d5 d5 optically is a mistake you can tell it's not it it's not a great move why if i ask you why is d5 a mistake you say um um well i actually don't know because takes takes i don't write but it has nothing to do with that this pawn move how does it affect the rest of the black pieces well this bishop is now blocked right and if dc4 is coming okay fine but that's a big decision this pawn is now a backwards pawn a pawn that cannot move forward and if you were to ever play dc bishop c4 you've just kind of activated my bishop so the best thing for him to do was kind of to sit back and do nothing to play like rookie 8 rook f7 very slowly trying to improve his position but it's very hard to do that as he decides to play d5 now magnus plays a very professional move maybe not the best move but a very professional move queen to e2 um i would love to sit here and pretend like i know the reason behind this move basically what magnus is doing is he's unpinning number one um and he's ready to play e4 when the moment is right and he's anticipating that dc4 will come taking an eye off the center and then he will be able to play e4 supported by this other rook so it's a preparation kind of move um what i don't understand here is what if black just doesn't take this pawn ever like black just sits back and plays rook f1 rook f8 for the rest of the game uh clearly magnus had something prepared there as well maybe he was going to take on d5 and then play e4 maybe he was going to i don't know i didn't ask um but that's probably the idea so king g7 is the move played and now rookie won and again here chris ward does take but i was like what if he didn't like what if he played like rook f7 and i think this is the idea i think this is the idea here's why it's the idea because if black just desperately tries to hang on to not allowing this move to be possible i have a feeling magnus would have just then played c4 and shredded open the position uh utilizing his openfile this is white's biggest asset the openfile right now uh dc4 does get played takes takes and we have this knight d5 and now we see all of this justification e4 and you say wait a minute isn't this pawn hanging with an attack on the queen yeah it is but knights are kind of like mice where you can lure them in and then trap them and they like they went in but they can't get back out they can't get back out if if the knight were to take on e4 two pawns up for half a second magnus just goes here uh and now he hits these pawns from behind and you you you all know how good it is to hit it from behind so we have c7 g7 b7 f5 i mean this is the best you know the best way to to destroy a position is to infiltrate and then go back out and this is uh this is just game over so queen c2 bishop takes e4 queen takes c3 and magnus carlsen has emerged with an extra horse now his extra horse is quite immobile in fact it hasn't moved for half the game in fact it has no moves so how is magnus actually going to utilize this advantage rookie 8 first he's going to make this trade now he's going to play bishop b5 that move hits the rook and the pawn of course chris ward does this now when you are winning by material you should simplify the positions the easiest way to win bishop c6 now the bishop has by the way hitting the bishop from behind again now the bishop's got nowhere to go it has to trade rook f6 and this is where the empire crumbles queen comes back to c3 spying the king king can't really move anywhere and the idea is just to go d5 and once d5 happens this pawn will be removed from the defense of this and this file and it's all over d5 queen f6 now he can take but this is an even stronger move because again if pawn takes d5 which is what happens in the game f5 is destabilized now we have a nice little knight takes f5 queen f5 now which one do you take do you take the queen and lose your queen or do you take this first well calculation exercise if this then there's this and you lose because you have to take and take and all of a sudden you've emerged two pawns down in an end game and i have three connected past pawns now we're gonna guest the elo episode no this is no good you have to go rook five they will take your queen and now rather than taking this rook you take that rook first with check and this is where you emerge now of course black does have some pawns and some precision is still required for example if you play rook d3 and just move your rook for the remainder of the game there is a small chance that uh you you blunder this i mean rook b3 is the best move because you're gonna win this pawn but let's just say you play like rook a3 i don't know why you would play that move but you know the more time you spend like within rook a6 the more time you spend doing nothing you give black enough rook moves uh to do nothing like black is gonna get the king with the pawns and this is now going to be a headache so what you have to do is what magnus does in this game you have to win a pawn and bring the king at the same time he basically needs to not make sure that these pawns can't move forward this king is completely cut off on the e file and uh that's exactly what ends up happening the pawns have no forward mobility anymore and now they will be won and it was in this position on move 39 that christopher ward resigned magnus carlsen got his first gm scalp defeated the first ever grand master of his life but i told you that if you stuck around i would give you some bonus content in the last game of this event which was an 11 round tournament magnus carlson played pompey conor ohampi she was the youngest grandmaster the youngest uh woman to achieve the grandmaster title at the time surpassing the record of judith polgar uh i believe at the time of this game she's 15 years old 15 or 16 years old and magnus carlsen plays her in the final round and i have to show this game because why not right so magnus is white again he plays d4 and this time magnus invites once again this kind of d4 c4 knight f3 we have b6 so this is the queen's indian defense i know you've probably heard king's indian some of the beginners don't even know that the queen's indian exists it's kind of the same concept but on the other side of the board g3 to try to play bishop to g2 notice that no knight has been committed and if magnus carlsen wanted a transposition he would have tried to go for this but now black is not obliged to play bishop before um so we have g3 bishop a6 that's another one of the ideas of the queen's indian b3 bishop d5 which attacks and now bishop g2 and in many of these positions this bishop is kind of the mvp so for example if the move d takes c4 is played in this position you will go here attack the rook win back your pawn and have no problems so we have bishop g2 and already as early as move nine we have a position that's been reached twice and as early as move 10 we have a position that's never been reached ever so interesting position kind of right off the bat uh nothing has been traded in 10 moves no pawns that that changes in a couple of moves white has a bit of a space advantage uh black plays knight a6 to play knight before and if you play something like a3 a slow move to try to prevent knight before black is going to play c5 so supplementing the idea of the knight on a6 not just to play knight before but to go here bring the rooks to the center and black has kind of equalized in terms of central space of course this knight is a little bit offside and white still remains a little bit better but there is one maneuver in these positions that is well known to give white some pressure on black's position now if you don't know this position you will not know this idea it's a very weird idea to just come up with but magnus carlsen is a genius even at the age of 12 and he knows it and the idea is knight to h4 this move kind of the whole desire here is to emphasize how much worse white slide squared bishop is compared to uh sorry black slide scored bishop compared to white's light squared bishop white side scored bishop is very nice stable but this bishop has no guard and the pressure on the center is very important and there's a secret idea that if you ever want to play cd5 and black takes with the pawn this knight will now land on f5 that's the other idea and there's the third idea to add the bishop to e4 so you can play pawn to e4 so completely on their own now black plays bishop a3 the whole point of this move is to trade one of white's kind of lurking bishops regain control of b4 and fight like this maybe c5 as well with the queen pressuring everybody over here you hear the banging outside there's a ladder being pressed against my wall not by an intruder by some construction workers takes magnus took on d5 we have takes takes and takes why would you invite knight to f5 well you really want to prevent e4 uh you know for example if black plays bishop takes d5 inviting a trade i just go here now you might argue that these pawns don't really leave an impression on anybody i still play rook d8 and i just attacked them and you're not completely wrong but he takes d5 is played e3 and now knight to e4 defended by the pawn the bishop and the queen kind of a nice position magnus now brings back the knight sometimes in chess you have to admit okay my maneuver was not that great so we gotta move on c5 now the knight goes back goes into e5 it wasn't great over here it goes in here cuts off the circulation from the queen f6 here is actually kind of a very natural question to ask and at that point i imagine magnus just would have gone here this knight is really just going on a journey around the board to maybe go to f4 to pressure the center like this but black played rook c8 in the game rook c1 rookie now magnus just voluntarily backs up and there's a really big question that's about to be answered of what's gonna happen with the central pawns right if you take what will magnus take with well he would love to take with the queen but he can't because of this so would he play this i don't know rookie one to pin i don't know knight c7 though defending the center but disconnecting the rook from the defense magnus plays knight f4 all part of the plan i did just say that that's what he was gonna do queen here knight here why not here well i think it's actually the offering of a repetition of moves i think maybe magnus would have declined it but i think if you know if magnus could have had it his way uh he would happily draw the final round of politicking cup uh but i'm gonna replace g5 she's playing for a win she's playing for a win she's playing a you know young whippersnapper magnus carlos she's like she's not she's not much older than him at this point uh 92-96 and black is getting uh what you normally like to get in queens indian positions which is some sort of attack on the king if white takes too much time in queens indian positions black can oftentimes get some sort of attack with f5 f4 g4 knight g5 knight to f3 it's a nice looking position it's still quite balanced very complex queen f6 re-pins the pawn and doesn't let magnus do anything in the center so magnus blocks the pin attacks the center threatens knight b5 knight d6 knight a7 and here knight f8 solves some of these problems like e4 not having a guard but drastically makes a mistake of another knight to f8 enables magnus to play d5 now the bishop has been disconnected from the defense of e4 forever magnus carlson has a past pawn which made it through the gates it will be defended e4 will be one and magnus has a big advantage so what was the best move then if it wasn't knight f8 well you can consider taking on d4 and then if for example knight e4 bishop e4 and we have a big trade we have this this this something like king g7 to make sure the queen is protected the center will explode you can take for a moment but i will go here and win this back now maybe black saw this maybe black saw this but was like i don't want to draw in fact this position could very well just end up being a complete draw this is a draw this is just complete maybe black saw this and it was like i'm going to keep the tension maybe black had to win to get a gm norm or something i don't know and played knight f8 but after d5 bishop a6 and just very simply unpinning no one's going to be able to guard this pawn in time now black tries i guess to play bishop d3 this was the idea of putting the bishop here but here there's a nice danger level concept at this point magnus carlsen obviously familiar uh with the danger level video that launched 18 years later on youtube knight e4 a queen is worth as much as a queen take this comes with check by the way so that's even worse and you're just completely winning so magnus uh so magnus obviously sees this and bishop d3 is impossible and he's picking up the pawn and now plays this very nice move he wins the pawn in the center it's a very nice move here let's do a really nice move here by magnus this is the best move according to the computer b4 and this is a pawn attack because if you take then i will go here and your entire queen side just collapses so i open the door for my queen but with that pawn move can't guard anything so instead of that we had f5 trying to create some sort of confusion magnus comes back with the knight knight d7 and still plays queen a4 now black is just in time with the defense of the bishop but black is not just in time with the defense of the entire queen side now that pawn triumphantly marches through it still cannot be taken because it would be lined up in an attack like this so knight b8 and the final cookie crumbles with the most magnesion of moves possible has nothing to do with the pawn it has nothing to do with the pieces or the bishop it has to do with the collapse of the queen side a4 it's almost like the lion king where you know scar stabs the nails before the fall i don't want to spoil too much although i kind of just spoiled everything a4 that's it now queen d6 ab5 the bishop is under attack rookie 5 is a nice move of course if magnus takes the bishop he loses his queen but he has this very aesthetic move queen a1 um if you take with the bishop i can take on c4 also the rook is now protected from any pins and uh rook b5 knight does not even take on c4 he goes knight e4 hitting this way knight f6 is coming and it shows you how overextended black's position is kind of similar to the chris ward game where where black overextended a lot with the pawns and if you notice magnus didn't have any pawn across the middle line except the d-pawn right didn't have any okay i mean it takes b5 but this is kind of two games that show how his opponents and now just the knight comes back to d5 and black resigns black resigns because you cannot deal with everything you could not deal with knight coming into c7 hitting the queen queen coming into f6 for example to move queen e6 just loses to this um and if you play like queen i don't even know d6 guarding both then i come back like this and you're going to lose material and if you go i don't know to like b7 there there's this moving you know it it's two games that that were uh solved by magnus um against very very strong players by virtue of over extension like they you know magnus played a very solid maneuvering game being very patient at the age of just 12 years old finding the optimal squares for his pieces and using the higher rated rated player kind of against themselves you know in this case like black could have gone here and the game could have ended by repetition but black instigated with magnus and uh ultimately found themselves in a spot where potentially the best course of action would have led to a draw sometimes tournament situation doesn't permit you to make a draw maybe you need to play for a win or you just play for a win because who's this young 12 year old trying to draw me i'm gonna beat this guy nope d5 and this is the only pawn that crossed into you know the whole territory so all his other pawns hung back and it kind of goes to show you that even to this day magnus carlsen does not overextend very much with his pawn so that folks was the way magnus carlson defeated not just his first grandmaster but credit to those of you that stuck around for the bonus game his second grand master all in the same tournament same thing actually with me i beat my first grandmaster in classical time control in world open philadelphia uh i beat my first gm in round four and i beat my second gm ever or round five five and eight five and eight not five and eleven but five and eight i beat my first two grand masters and so i'm basically i'm basically like magnus carlsen you you watched 24 minutes of this video my chess career uh blooming not at 12 uh but at you know 21 or whenever that tournament happened uh but it's always a great feeling that first gm win gives you all the confidence in the world that you have the capabilities and what magnus i mean the rest is history he's been beating grand masters for uh the next 18 years of his chess career and magnus carlsen achieved his final im norm at the politican cup becoming an international master uh in 2003 in july uh and 2004 was hey that was the year of magnus baby that was man he uh he really popped off that year so hopefully you enjoyed the video folks uh and if there's any other c uh content you want me to cover when it comes to uh magnus or any of these like top super gm's and their journeys and careers do let me know in the comments below peace out i will see you in the next video get out of here

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Length: 24min 51sec (1491 seconds)

Published: Fri Jun 25 2021