Part 2 Magnus Carlsen - Alexander Grischuk, World Blitz Championship, 18 Nov 2009

Dominguez and Karpov come closer to watch...
Hectic ending! Watch Magnus almost run out of time at 5:10. He nearly drops his queen... Grischuk has been able to play with less than 10 seconds left for quite a time.

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• Magnus
• Carlsen
• blitz
• chess
• Grischuk
• Магнус
• Карлсен
• Грищук
• блитц
• шахматы
• 2009

[schnabeltierchen]

Very nice, but Magnus missed a simple mate at 5:00 after black's Qh5: 1. Qh8 (instead of Rb7) Kg6 2.Qxf6 Kh7 3. Rh8 mate.

[bumblebee1607]

This is blitz, mate;))

[mordicus90]

Incredible how Grischuk remained so calm while low on time, living on the increments...

[bumblebee1607]

He is a great blitz player, one of the best. Very composed and concentrated.

[balleslyng]

This is the most intense chess related video I have ever seen. That ending was sick!

[Unkn0wnKts]

@HoNoMan15 It's "En passant" capture if I'm not wrong in terminology.

[HoNoMan15]

1:28-1:32 he couldn't get that peon, it was on the other square...lol.Am I wrong ?

[TEDOVSKY]

Spoke to the former world champion max euwe in the 70s (Im dutch) and he said that alekhine did lose the odd LONG game, but NEVER EVER lost a game of blitz and while playing blitz NEVER took longer than 5 seconds to make his move. (Wow!)

[drnantz]

That was COOL!

[drzeitnot]

@benacostian No, at that point carlsen takes a long time because he realises that it's a drawn position because the pawn on e4 prevents Qa8 (preventing the black king getting to g1/g2/h1) thus he plays Ke5 hoping for ...e4 and allowing Qa8 followed by Qe4 (or Qh1), but ...Kg2 would have drawn easily, either immediately or after Qxe1 (which is inevitable). It's interesting because K+7thRP v Q = draw is known by most 1500 players. It's bizarre that grischuk saves his KP instead of RP.

[diodoubled]

if grishchuk had taken the pawn instead of exchanging the rooks he could easily have draw-ed.. because whites king is too far and they cant stop blacks pawns only with one rook

[ChessKnightmare]

@balleslyng yes and it is great becaue it's one video where I could follow the game the guy who's filming is doing a great job, I've seen a lot of vid where it's just impossible to see what is going on !

[xande43]

@PraveenAtheray

Grischuk can't avoid losing his pawn. After that, it's a matter of tecnique.

[benacostian]

isn't Qe5 best move at 6:21?

[007zz]

Wow!!