Letsplaychess.com presents Corus 2008, Negi vs Carlsson

[teogialigous]

great video!very well done majnu!!!

[israelwasaness]

what the hell ,rybka would take the dam rook, and then show us (humans) some respect by killing black in less than 10 following moves

[MrXbox36067946794]

ah, my favorite defense, the dragon. brutal.

[Toxie207]

Excellent to see that pontus is still playing the Dragon! I played him twice in junior international tournaments, drawing once (luckily!) and losing to his Dragon the following year in Hallsberg, Sweden. Great commentary!

[uttersman]

maybe carlsson had Qc7 pinning the c4 pawn and also nullifying any possible white counter -attack on the d -file with the black queen pinned to his bishop and also anchoring the d pawn push on the next move d5, qc7 also frees up the rook for a latter tempo check on b8...the best for white actually seems to be contering Qc7 w/ g5 which of course leads to alot of head spinning lines like Rb8+ etc...my question is what is whites best reply to Qc7 and if Qc7 is even a viable continuation after bxc4?

[im212forshiz]

at 3:42 (with the rook/knight sacrifice) I like black's position much more. White's knight is pinned to his queen (by the bishop on g7 easily opened by any knight moved) black has a series of punishing queen and rook attack on the king and white's attack has been blown away.

[yontie13]

Your the man Manju love the commentary

[muhideen]

Nice one Manju. Great commentary and analysis. GM Negi is another in a long line of talented juniors being churned out by the Indians (and the Chinese.) GM Pontus Carlsson is the strongest black player on the planet right now and only the 2nd black GM in history. Maurice Ashley (USA) was the first. Zambia's Amon Simutowe has made his final GM norm, but needs to reach 2500 Elo to be awarded the title.

[Majnu2006]

Thanks for the information muhideen

[coldgautam]

Wonderful commentary and analysis !

Thank you so much for your time and interest!

[sannevisser]

excellent!

[shawnbaka]

Keep up the good work here with these videos this is helping me understand how GM's think.

[macnolds]

great video, and commendable choice of game.

[thomassmith20]

Thanks Majnu for the commentary, very interesting game!

[brucewallace2]

Nice one. Think your right, the sac of the Knight on f5 had to be played earlier. Such is the importance of timing in chess. Miss one opportunity at this level and your lost!

[jrobichess]

Great video Majnu - I hope you cover more Chorus matches!

[Majnu2006]

White Negi, P.

Black Carlsson, P.

1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 Nf6 5. Nc3 g6 6. Be3 Bg7 7. f3 O-O 8. Qd2 Nc6 9. Bc4 Bd7 10. O-O-O Rc8 11. Bb3 Ne5 12. Kb1 Nc4 13. Bxc4 Rxc4 14. g4 b5 15. b3 b4 16. Nce2 Rc7 17. Ng3 Rc3 18. Bh6 Bxh6 19. Qxh6 e5 20. g5 Ng4 21. fxg4 exd4 22. Rxd4 Qa5 23. Rd5 Qa3 24. Rc1 Rc6 25. Rd2 Be6 26. Nf5 gxf5 27. gxf5 Bxb3 28. axb3 Ra6 29. c3 bxc3 30. Rxc3 Qa1+ 31. Kc2 Ra2+ 32. Kd3 Qf1+ 33. Ke3 Qe1+ 34. Kf3 Qxd2 35. f6 Qxc3+ 36. Kf4 Rf2+ 37. Kg4 Qf3+ 38. Kh4 0-1