Carlsen cramps Praggnanandhaa's Caro-Kann
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- Опубліковано 4 лют 2025
- Featured is a 3+2 blitz chess game between Magnus Carlsen and Praggnanandhaa R from round 2 of the 2024 Tata Steel India Rapid and Blitz. The opening is a Caro-Kann Defense with Carlsen choosing d3, the 'Endgame Offer'. Praggnanandhaa declines to enter an endgame, instead pinning Carlsen's king knight. Carlsen advances his g-pawn early in this one. Watch how it has a cramping effect on Praggnanandhaa's kingside development. Praggnanandhaa's position is already extremely difficult to handle by the halfway point, where Carlsen finds Stockfish's top idea. The tactical finish by Carlsen is one you'll likely see in a tactics book. Carlsen won the 2024 Tata Steel Blitz section with a score of 13/18.
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1. e4 c6 2. Nf3 d5 3. d3 Bg4 4. h3 Bh5 5. Qe2 e6 6. g4 Bg6 7. h4 dxe4 8. dxe4 h5 9. g5 Nd7 10. Nbd2 Qc7 11. b3 Ne5 12. Bb2 Bd6 13. O-O-O Ne7 14. Ne1 O-O-O 15. Bh3 Kb8 16. Kb1 Nc8 17. f4 Ng4 18. Bxg4 hxg4 19. Bxg7 Rh7 20. Bf6 Rd7 21. Nc4 Bxf4 22. Nd3 Bg3 23. Nc5 Rxd1+ 24. Rxd1 Nd6 25. Nxd6 Bxd6 26. Rxd6
Jerry, your analyzing of games are always on fun to watch. The ‘what ifs’ are enlightening and clear. I get something out of each game you show. Thanks
Great to hear 😎
The final tactic is one you do not see every day.
I see it about once a month online, usually in a sideline never played. Rare to see it after a sequence in top GM games.
Thx Jerry 😊
Such a pretty final tactic!
The pin/fork combo. 😎
Beautiful ending!
0:57 A century could pass without me considering Qe2 there
The primary idea is to avoid trading queens but the secondary idea is to support e4 pawn with Queen because eventually Bishop will target e4 pawn from g6 so Carlsen saves a tempo doing this. Also Carlsen wants to play h3 but would currently lose a pawn for it.
I was just reading ur message when Qe2 was played 😅
Carlos Magnusen is unstoppable.
He’s been on 🔥.
Hey man you were the OG chess content creator back in the day. Glad you are still alive.
more like, Caro-KanT
As usual, no inaccuracies. In blitz xD
Excellent game and commentary!!😇
Thank you 👍
Do you ever sit back and think wow, chess is crazy. Because really, it is. These guys are awesome
Love these instructional videos, i learn so much from these, it's better than many paid chess content.
Hope you do many more instructional videos like this.
thanks for the analysis , the electronic guitar at the ending has a nostalgic feel, have a good night Jerry!
Your breakdowns are so educational. Thank you sir. I hope you keep this up.
Thank you Chris. 👍
A real crush culminating in a beautiful tactic. Thanks Jerry.
Very insightful work by Carlsen. Perhaps pros are familiar with White’s opening play, but I’m not, and it looked pretty daring and inventive to me.
its a sideline of a sideline of a sideline for sure. ive been preparing to play this endgame invitation line in an upcoming tournament and i was very excited to see magnus play it.
thanks Jerry
Jerry gives the best commentaries
Beautiful and unpredictable!
Thanks!
Great instructive video Sir...cld u share Grand Prix Attack video from top GMs once...that wld be nice...thanks
love a strong pawn. only thing better is king's a fighter~!
amazing game
Superhuman
Great game.
Very interesting game
Hi Jerry, I have you considered the move e5 for prag? All the masters say take the center. He had many chances to do and the pawn wouldn't fall because I saw multiple ways to defend it using queen, bishop, the queen night and the queen rook after castling queenside. The downfall of prag is was the weakness on the diagonal.
good point, and yeah ideally in the caro structure you are preparing to play either c5 or e5 the whole time. i assume he was hesitant to pull the trigger due to the weakness of the h3-c8 diagonal, and the immediate hole on f5 it would have created. with magnuses space advantage it would have been trivially easy at most points to drop a knight on f5 there right?
2:06 I think gxf7+ is the reply to Bxe5 yes?
First. Thanks Gary, awesome video ❤
We all love Gary.
@@jezza669 Gary's the best!
Carrie, Gary, Harry, Jerry, Kerry, Mary, Perry, Terry...these people make me very wary
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Once upon a time there was Gary,
who looked out for the sleepy and wary,
every week then no less,
he improved their chess,
and this made the opponent less scary!
I didn't watch the closing ceremony but the commentators refused to say Magnus won the tournament, they said "Magnus won the rapid, and he also won the blitz". They wanted their Indian team to win and couldn't bring themselves to say winner of this tournament, Magnus Carlsen. Don't get me wrong, Gukesh is gonna beat Ding in the WC, and then they can brag but right now we have the GOAT and should be recognized as such
Kasparov is still the goat imo. Stronger relative to his time period and was champ for much longer.
@tongpoo8985 this is the modern era of chess engines, with a stacked competition of players everywhere, yet magnus still remains on top. I don't think kasparov had competition like this
@@AL-ts6iv Fair point, there is no doubt that Magnus is the strongest player of all time to-date in absolute terms, and the level of competition is stronger than it was 30 years ago. But Kasparov, with the same tools that his opponents' had, was completely untouchable. He was consistently ahead of top level competition by 50-100 elo, and he maintained that spot for about 20 years. Magnus is consistently at the top, but not by a very large margin. Also, Magnus relinquished the world title; preparing for and winning the world title match is enormously difficult and requires a huge amount of work. From my perspective, he cannot be considered the greatest of all time if he is not competing for the world championship.
There have been analyses done on how accurate the world champions were, and while Magnus is usually ranked first ahead of Kasparov and Kramnik, I believe this gap would shrink if we excluded the opening moves which are usually computer preparation. He very well may still be on top with his spectacular endgame play, but I would be curious to see an middlegame/endgame-only analysis such as this.
Lastly, I think it is appropriate to consider subjective things like beauty/creativity of the games (like how Ali is often considered the GOAT despite not being the best boxer in objective terms). And in this regard I would say that Kasparov games are much more beautiful and rich in creative middle-game ideas and spectacular sequences. Not to say that Carlsen games are lacking these things, Kasparov's are just on another level; you could study only Kasparov games and never get bored. Carlsen's opponents are more accurate, but they are not very creative and there is no clash of styles in the modern era as everyone has a similar "what would Stockfish do?" style, at least in classical chess.
I liked your analysis, but it seems to me that Carlsen has been the strongest endgame-player for many years. Maybe he, but I do not know, quit the classical mode because he more wanted to use his nonverbal skills and intuition?
This is a thing of joy to see Indian player loosing to carlsen or to anybody
Hi Jerry.
It's so funny that in amateur play you rarely see d3 against the caro kann whereas for computers and grand masters it's a serious, if not the most serious, test for black. As black you get the choice between suffering in an end game that has a pretty good win rate for white, or suffering positionally by trying to keep the game alive.
Not Prahg's best game...I think he should've exchanged queens on move 3. Or, pawn to E6
Who want to excahnge queen to the toughest endgame player?
If Prag exchanged queen's early and then lost, you would say why did Prag trade the queen early to best endgame player ever?
96% accuracy, lets to the procedure
pp = poor Pragg
First
96% accuracy in blitz ...
He is a Devil.
Magnus is overrated!
Cope.