Magnus Carlsen Analyzes the Game Between Elizabeth Harmon and Borgov From The Queen's Gambit

hello everyone i'm minus carlson from norway chess world champion since 2013. i'm going to break down a couple of games from the queen's gambit series so please enjoy [Music] at this moment morgeth has generally done done quite well um he has uh created something of an initiative on uh on the king side um and uh all his his uh his pieces are pretty pretty actively uh actively placed but beth is also is also playing uh playing quite uh quite well um centralizing her her pieces bringing her knights uh into into the game but at the moment he is the one who uh who is pressing and uh she is the one who has to concern herself with um with equalizing the the game yeah she kicks away the queen from uh from an aggressive position there um very important important move here uh burgov makes a huge mistake here he essentially has only one uh decent move that he can play which means that she will be able to predict his his next move and she knows uh what she has to prepare for and here we can see borgoff makes the makes the obvious move and it is no surprise to her and she um she has prepared the the best the the best reply um knight to e6 i have to sit to say that he responds really poorly this is something that should not happen bergoth has a whole night to prepare and he makes not an obvious mistake but not a mistake you should make when you've had that time to uh to prepare what's happened here uh is that she makes absolutely the best move there by moving her knight into a dangerous position and what borgov needed to realize there is that however much he wants to win the game he can't win the game he has to chop off that knight move his rook in order to to take out beth's most dangerous pawns and basically lick with liquidate the game towards a draw yes that is not what he wants but you have to be realistic there this particular sequence she handles like a true champion and he handles he handles it like a uh yeah like like a like a desperate man so the sequence here is is is really beautiful uh she sacrifices a pawn but basically ties up all borogov's pieces he's not doing what he's supposed to do and all the excitement from the public here uh i find a bit nonsensical because she she's winning and she knows it and he should know it and the others should should realize it's it's not it's not obvious but it should be fairly clear that his pieces are tied up and and so despite him being upon pawn up at this point she definitely has all the chances now she she can look she can look up at the sky uh at the ceiling as much as she wants but she knows it she knows she's winning i feel like she's just torturing him at this point which she has every which has every she has every right to do of course i just see the the chessboard uh in in my head so i might look look away um like like you're trying to remember something or look up which is also like looking away and looking up is usually a sign that you're trying to remember something but no uh the pieces are not there on on the ceiling they're just just in my head [Music] she's playing quite precisely there moving moving the queen but there were already uh plenty of ways to to win there [Music] uh she makes a very good positional move there fortifying her um her bishop and this uh draw offer is frankly insulting she she should never take it uh as i said his pieces are all tied up she uh she can never lose and um you should never offer a draw in this situation like you may offer a draw in a worse position where you have counter chances he doesn't have any counter chances here she absolutely needs to um to reject this particular particular offer [Music] he moves the the king away and she sacrifices the queen very very beautiful full choice there she had other ways to win as well but this is a fitting way to kind of humiliate him and to punish him for his uh his indecent offer of uh overdraw [Music] so now she she is a bishop up she's getting a new queen and she just has to make sure that he doesn't get some miracle counter play with his queen and his rook but she's figured everything out she she calculates so well that this is this is easy for her she moves her rook back uh he has only he sacrificed the rook he's only a queen left she has a little smile uh knowing that borgoff he should have conceded before but she knows that he has to concede he has to resign now borgroff shouldn't smile he should be ashamed at the way he conducted the end of the this game um she uh he made a lot of mistakes but uh uh he is uh correct in acknowledging that the fact that she she played extremely well in general i felt like the chess was very very well done uh in the series lots of game segments that i'd never seen never seen before and they were they were quite quite pretty uh as well and watching the series uh i would several times like try and predict what was going gonna happen and then um when i was realizing yeah that there it is that's that's the combination they want to show uh was really it's really exciting as um as not only a chess player but as uh as a massive chess fan as well i hope you guys enjoy enjoyed these little bits from beth harmon's games and go out and play have fun

Channel: Magnus Carlsen

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Keywords: chess, Magnus Carlsen, Magnus Trainer, netflix

Id: LnBZs04XQOU

Length: 8min 33sec (513 seconds)

Published: Thu Jan 14 2021