Magnus Carlsen RETURNS to Chess.com

today magnus carlson played his first competitive  chess event on chess.com in nearly three years   that's mainly because he has an exclusivity  contract with chess 24 much like hikara has   one with chess.com a lot of poker professionals  do something similar they play on only one website   for example like pokerstars but magnus obviously  came to terms with just.com for this event it's   amazing to see him playing he played against  the number one iranian player parham maksudlu   and in this video i'm going to take you kind of  through the story of the match the cool moments   and at the end i have a fun clip for you where  magnus trash talks in each geary who doesn't love   that alright let's jump into the games so we kick  things off with magnus and the white pieces five   minutes one second bonus an english opening knight  c3 d5 d4 bishop b4 e3 knight f6 so far so good   looks like a nimso all right magnus what do you  got for us huh that's a strange move i thought   maybe you would develop your knight or your bishop  or attack the bishop well it turns out this isn't   some sort of genius opening preparation within  his first five moves back on chess.com magnus   carlson mouse lived he actually meant to  play a3 well in the rest of this game he was   slightly worse but he was able to consolidate  his position this is not where the pawn belongs   in this system it belongs covering these two  squares so you would want to go a3 but magnus   luckily you know he he kept the pawn structure  symmetrical he traded pieces he played solidly   uh and many many trades later he managed to  stabilize trade and a short while after this they   drew their game the second game was also a draw so  we will jump ahead to the third game of the match   the players repeat their opening from the first  game and now magnus plays a3 drama avoided this   should be set so perham you know has a choice here  to take like this this is also very common uh and   then he you know he would try to play c5 and queen  a5 it's a very common nimso indian idea to trade   the dark squared bishop damage the structure and  basically play against this bishop you've given   white the the dark square bishop you don't have  one anymore so you don't want that dark square   bishop to completely get beastly anyway um in the  game parham went back because he didn't want to do   that and now magnus played in a very unique way  rather than just developing his bishop normally   he takes a lot of space on the queen side he just  doesn't develop on the king side at all he clams   down on his opponent it's really difficult for  barham to move in positions like this one you're   looking at pawn breaks when there's eight pawns  aside you need to kind of poke holes in the fence   that's how you should think about a closed  position and so the key move would be e5   b6 or a5 those are your three pawn breaks only  one of them will be successful and that's why   parham went for it the problem for perham is that  he was spending so much time early in the game   on seemingly trivial decisions and at this point  already you know once this whole trade came   he was down like four minutes to two in a five  minute game and it's only like the twelfth move so   let's see how magnus is able to continue to apply  the pressure he plays queen c2 guards this guards   this now moving the knight can be a threat on the  queen brown plays queen h5 okay that covers the   king from ever going this way and if the king ever  goes short you'll play knight g4 and you'll check   mate magnus carlsen you'll tell all your friends  about it at the bar in library so then knight   back to e2 i mean very high level move from magnus  how many of us would play a backwards night move   uh and then and then transfer the knight  over here okay probably all of you but not me   knight g4 so now obviously you know at this point  i would castle allowing checkmate and then go oh   i missed that but we get h3 this is not a real  attack because you can't actually threaten but   you need to open the possibility of being able to  castle because then queen comes down to h2 that's   not that's no longer possible so knight e5 and  magnus sees an overloaded situation with the queen   the queen cannot guard both points so he plays  takes takes and bishop takes e5 and so magnus   is up a juicer or a pawn b6 barham begins active  mobilization on the other side of the board but in   doing so this is very very important pushes upon  and leaves himself a weakness on the c6 square   i get knight to d4 and bishop to d7 rook c1 rook  c8 he's doing this magnus because he wants again   long-term pressure here now magnus takes a hit  of his bomb cloud and plays a moderately delayed   king to e2 he then proceeds a little bit later  to play king f3 and he's doing this because the   king is actually very safe here parham's got very  passive bishops staring into rock solid formation   but perham to his credit plays the important  pawn break on the other side of the board and   plays the rogue 2a4 magnus stabilizes the queen  side and begins to push on this side of the board   what he does is he checks forces the  king back and a very important move   rook to b1 he plays this to have over protection  on this and in the future to potentially trade a   a rook excuse me so rook up to a6 rook three  uh rook three b2 rook a3 king slides over   why does the king slide over potentially  he can go knight back uh to this square   at the same time it's it also very much is a pass  back move uh you might want to expand with the f   pawn in the future you couldn't do that when  the king was blocking it uh but here parham   just lashes out with f5 looking to sacrifice the  pawn and open up the bishop the problem for him   is that even after this you just got  nothing and after bishop takes pawn takes   magnus up two pawns parham resigned uh and magnus  won his first game in the speech championship   uh magnus played this game with a 99 accuracy  parham played 94 and a half or something like   that 99 for magnus not too bad we jump ahead now  uh a couple of games i believe maybe three games   i don't believe that this was the next game but  now parham has the black pieces once again oh   sorry this would be two games because magnus had  the white pieces again okay so more of the same uh   but this time parham doesn't go for d5 very  quickly although he did play it a few moves later   uh and now we have a main line nym so indian  dc4 bishop c4 and c5 so this is very common   this is very common i did mention this earlier  uh in the video c5 knight c6 super super   straightforward uh castles b6 and bishop b7 in  a perfect world white goes here here here here   and this bishop comes alive on on b2 and you  win the game but parham plays e5 very important   move clamping down on the center with dark squares  again he's traded his dark squared bishop early on   and therefore he needs to replace his dark square  uh kind of attacker with dark square at baby   attackers dark squared pawns if that makes sense  you see white has a problem all his pawns are also   on dark squares there's this kind of positional  struggle so knight g3 cd4 cd4 ed4 and here i   was talking with hikaru during the game in hikira  was was was looking at the idea e4 and then f4 uh   with the intention to potentially play e5 and this  would lead to a super imbalanced position magnus   didn't do that instead choosing rook c1 hoping  that parham would take this again opens up the   two bishops and for the cost of one pawn magnus  has a very powerful attack where he has now opened   his rook his bishop his knight is targeting that  side of the board and the queen can come out here   in the future once this knight disappears because  for now that knight is extremely powerful okay   glad parham plays rookie 80 doesn't want to get  checkmated e4 knight back to d7 super impressive   move to put the knight on c5 or knight e5 again  these backwards knight moves by these guys   super super uh accurate i mean just amazing to see  so bishop b5 he targets the knight knight comes to   c5 that guards this knight because it disconnects  the rook from seeing the knight and this knight   is protected now we get f3 magnus rebuilds  in the center a6 takes takes and bishop a4   magnus carlsen in this position blunders a piece  what he should have played was queen takes d4   and after queen d4 if take take this is not  really a fork because the rook takes the bishop   this should be five rook d1 and the game  goes on uh but magnus played bishop d4   and in inexplicable fashion blundered bishop to  a4 just crazy and this is a huge mistake for for   magnus because his only way to cover his bishop  is to play queen d2 and then simply knight b3   and that's it and next move i take with chuck  and and you i mean for example queen before   queen takes check queen takes here and it looks  like you fork me it looks like you've made it   but i have bishop to b5 and you haven't made  anything and so magnus sacrifices the queen he   takes on c5 and bishop takes d1 rook f takes d1  and parham here i don't know why he didn't move   the queen but parham says look man i'm gonna  keep this as easy as possible i'm gonna sack   my queen back i have a rook for a knight i  have the past c pawn i'm gonna win this game   and it was very scary because you never  know what magnus is capable of but perham   did the right thing he marched this king  all the way forward to support his pawn   this pawn is passing and that's exactly  how he ended up converting this position   bringing his four most important pieces to  the party very nice move to finish it off   uh if you take the rook i just take this knight  c3 rook c3 if take the take if take then take and   parham maksoulu struck back and the  score is two and a half two and a half and uh from this point forward magnus carlsen  won every single game that they played   not throughout the match but for the next hour  and a half this is when magnus lost magnus then   adopted parham he beat him 11 straight games the  game i'm gonna show you is the second to last   game of three one which was simply breathtaking  everything was falling apart for barham in these   games and if you look at the cap scores magnus  carlsen played one game below 93 if i'm not   mistaken he averaged 95 96 caps absolutely unreal  from him just stunning stunning play and the game   that i really want to show from magnus's  perspective is the second to last 3-1 game   because this this one was was just incredible so  it was a slav defense and i mean at this point   magnus was experimenting with different openings  keep in mind at this point he's already completed   the 10 straight games that's what adoption is  uh in considered in in online chess so we get   just a very simple and straightforward  kind of reverse london by the way   london fans uh castles knight d7 b3 parham at this  point just trying to put pieces on squares aren't   we all uh but trying to you know stop the bleeding  magnus plays knight to e4 he could have played   bishop d6 but he plays knight e4 first then bishop  d6 and here plays a very common idea played in the   london system which is this move queen b8 queen  b8 targets the h2 pawn before castling i always   recommend you guys can see this in all of my d4  rating climbs the london video there's positions   in london's you don't need to castle and you can  just start an attack you can especially start an   attack when you're up 10 points in a match and so  that's exactly what magnus does g3 gives magnus   the hook that he needs to target and rather than  going crazy and sacrificing which wouldn't work   he plays h5 so parham under normal circumstances  would play h4 so the pawn can't come forward   he can't do that right now because he needs to  guard against this so knight e4 de4 forcing the   knight to get out of here bishop to h3 and parham  just goes crazy with d5 he can play rook to e1   but then g5 h4 and bye-bye so we get d5 bishop  e5 very nice move chomping off this guy takes oh   bishop comes back let's not forget this bishop  doesn't want this rook this bishop is far more   powerful than this rook so magnus drops back to e6  a sure sign of a strong attack involves a locked   center you don't want your opponent with an open  center because then they can move their pieces   across the board creating counter play on your  position and at the same time finding ways to   transfer their pieces to defend themselves so  magnus kind of locks the center right because   this queen isn't threatening anybody but queen  d4 and perham probably thought while i'm out of   the woods i mean i'm going to get his queen  off the board fantastic i mean if queen g5   you don't have an attack anymore because  how are you going to get rid of this guys   to hell with that g5 knight g2 c5 take my  queen buddy let's go take my queen take take   h4 all right i don't want to play g4 because  right now this pawn is controlling this knight's   movements so magnus plays f6 reinforcing the pawn  the pawn on g5 then he plays king e7 because again   he was taking bong hits basically the entire  match we get rook to d2 rook g8 rook d1 knight   comes into f3 so after bishop takes in pawn takes  which is what happened the knight is crowded on   e1 of course you can play g4 that looks very  nice but why did we do all of this the knight   stopped guarding the pawn so we take knight to  d3 so we take of course he can't take because   of this okay knight to f4 now here you can go  g4 with the plan of bam bam and bam and that's   mate it's not going to happen though so magnus  just plays h4 rook d6 hitting the bishop and   the bishop parks itself on g4 covering all of the  important squares near the king knight to d5 looks   like a nice check on the king but then just king  takes rook the rook is protected by the other rook   and if the knight comes here that's what happens  rook six back to d2 the pawn continues to march   magnus carlsen shows that he doesn't need a  queen under traditional attacking patterns   to launch a devastating attack at this point if  rook takes h2 was played you would get f2 check   and winning the rook via discovered attack we got  king to h1 but he plays it anyway the pawns both   make it one square before promotion and white's  position is absolutely busted he literally has   no more moves and magnus ends the game in very  nice fashion he could have won it actually just   brute force here he could have played here here  force through the queen take take and now you   can't take the rook because of promotion magnus  does it in a more aesthetic way rook takes g3   and after rook f takes f2 a very quiet move bishop  e4 and parham resigned because he literally can't   move he just can't move if he plays like rookie  2 for example black can literally play here here   here and here like you cannot move you cannot move  you can do this forever but at some point i will   break through because you are absolutely paralyzed  a gorgeous attacking win for magnus queenless   attack using just two rooks and a bishop and a  pawn storm on that side of the board not castling   another game played at 98.9 caps simply brilliant  i mean a brilliant performance going into the   bullet um he had a i don't know he had a gigantic  lead uh one game i will just show for fun here   uh is uh is this one this was i believe  the last game of the entire thing   at this point magnus already was on a  six-game winning streak i think he had a 9-2   lead in just the bullet which is one  plus one and we get c3 f3 and this i don't know how you feel about this you know  some people are chess purists they really don't   like to see stuff like this but uh i don't know at  this point magnus had a lead of i think 18 games   there was basically no time remaining i  don't know if you think this is disrespectful   i i don't i don't mind it you know i think it's  gonna happen if big leads are built and magnus   just still when when it comes to getting serious  just beautifully mobilizes his pieces and even   and just converts brilliantly i mean i don't  know how many times he moved but look at the   coordination of his pieces the knight on d5 is  protected five different times uh or one two   three four four different times and uh well yeah  the it all ends with this this this this bishop   takes rook and um a6 and that's it you cannot stop  a7 and a8 perham resigns and magnus carlsen wins   24 to 5 in his first round matchup of the speed  chess championship 2020. after he was done   magnus had something interesting to say i you  know i don't want to be one of these guys oh   it's such a spicy statement but i'll end the video  showing you this clip as i promised um what do you   think about it and who do you think we will see in  the finals of this year's speed chess championship   and who do you who do you want to win it because  we all we all think we know who's gonna win it   but who do you want to win it who would you like  to see emerge in this field and score some really   dominant victories let me know in the comments  below but it's amazing to see magnus playing   on chess.com again even if it's maybe just for  this event i think this is obviously good for   just chess in general so yeah hope you enjoy these  let me know if you want me to keep doing them for   the speedchest championship and i'll see you in  the next one later on um magnus congratulations   again uh for winning the match and moving on one  last question we like to ask everybody you've got   either vladislav artemyev or aneesh geary coming  up next any uh any pick on who you'd rather play i   would rather play uh player tammy if i think he's  by far the strongest blitz player of those two

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Length: 18min 34sec (1114 seconds)

Published: Tue Nov 03 2020