Chess World.net presents: Carlsen vs Aronian, Tata Steel 2012 - Queen's Gambit Declined (D31)

[Spartan2288]

u talk too much, make it a 20min game

[motornade]

Thanks for your nice way of anayse

[ohorok2]

Brilliant again!!!

Please, cover two best games of 9th round: Nakalov-Topamura & Carlakin-Karjsen.

Just kidding:D Respect!

Both games were amazing, Topalov's opening and Karjakin's possition..

PLEASE.

[GordonChess]

Great video KC. Thanks

[quillendaniel]

Thanks for posting.....brilliant commentary......

The positional calculus of Magnus will be a mystery for the novice.....but the end game beauty/genius is transparent....

[quillendaniel]

Brilliant end game sequence !

[trixapete]

cruel was the right word to describe that knight manoeuvre at the end lol!

[kaewonf8]

That endgame sequence was truly masterly. Thanks for the play-by KC.

[Chesscoach8]

Thanks for the mind-expanding commentary KC. It seems typical in modern GM play that once a player feels that their opponent is gaining a space advantage, rather than retreat and submit to a passive position, the defender sacs pawns in order to fight for the initiative. The exception to this I think is Petrosian. I definitly want to see more contemporary games like this. But I would also like to see some KC commented examples of how Petrosian defends these types of positions.

[Nola213]

Beautiful. Please keep doing these as muchas you can. It's always nice to watch commentary on games played by the greatest chess players of our time.

Amazing caculation by Carlsen if he did see all of that from exf7+; and I have no doubt he did.

thanks for the commentary KC.

[EClein2]

GM's never make each other play out the mate with a knight and bishop. I know it's like an unwritten law they have with each other (kind of an honour thing) but you generally can't afford to make one mistake with the 50 move rule in effect. I would love to see a master like Carlsen knock it out just once in tournament play. It's so precise and beautiful.

[Minkki82]

@EClein2 Yea I would have liked to see how well Magnus remembered the knight and bishop mating sequence.

[viharsarok]

@Minkki82 Magnus couldn't play chess at age five.

[SuperAkaras]

Nh4! Wow, what a cruel move, denying the king the possibility to herd the pawn. Inspiring stuff. I haven't been following Tata personally this year, so i would love if you can cover some more of the interesting games.

[sxaletalon4]

Carlsen's blog. ". I must admit I wasn't sure what was going on in the opening but managed to find some good moves. Aronian, who is 2nd ranked in the world, tried to create activity without really succeeding. I had a winning position when I went for 34.exf7+ (instead of winning the exchange with e7) and had calculated the game continuation with bishop and knight against rook until his 43.....g5! which I had missed. I thought white should still be winning although it was a very complicated ending

[kingscrusher]

@sxaletalon4 It is always great to hear from the players themselves - cheers.

[skinnyjohnsen]

@sxaletalon4 Finding weaknesses in your own won games may be one of the things Carlsen learned from Kasparov. The big guy himself said too many players only tried to find mistakes if they lost ;-/

[8minutesofarc]

Great video! That was some gorgeous endgame technique by Carlsen.

[Immortalassassin1]

Brilliant endgame technique by Carlsen =D Nice commentary as always KC ;)

[gabadiel]

Aronian - Naka is the best so far

[gunuffimoo]

This game is the best so fare. And I must say; its not fair to underestimate these guys in comparison with immortals like Kasparov, Fischer or Tal. These old world champions did'nt have any engine-capacity hanging over their shoulders to blanch their glory. Nowadays even amateurs like me can take a look at the games and say: "that was stupid"(read: less clever).

[Fpires92]

Thanks for another amazing video!

I love ur commentary!

[skidmore7]

What do you think about Magnus Carlsen?Is he on the way to become the greatest ever?Greetings from Brazil !

[chessdeity]

I like that game too but there will be surely another interesting games coming up. However, i found a quite interesting game from the Mtel Masters 2005 Ponomariov vs Topalov with e00 (catalan opening) where Ponomariov won, unfortunately i cannot post the url but im sure if you are interested you will find it on chessgames com. would love it. greetings.

[Riggzilla]

Aronian vs Nakamura Round 2. I love that game, I'd love a commentary about it! :)