Chess World.net presents Carlsen vs Topalov: Instructive game - Winning 'a' pawn leads to collapse!

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Chess World.net presents Carlsen vs Topalov: Instructive game - Winning 'a' pawn leads to collapse!

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[schache4e5]

Great, amazing work, Kingscrusher! Not only your work on the recent games from Nanjing, but also your excellent analysis and competent and funny commentary on Kasparov vs. Karpov, as well as your frequent blitz games. These are by far (!) the best free chess videos in the internet. Please keep it up, it really is a pleasure day after day. Thank you!

[alexholowczak]

The audio seems out of sync with the video?

[JohnnySkillish]

@Master8laster Kasparov has clearly stated that Carlsen is actually MUCH BETTER than even himself in instinctively/intuitively "knowing" where he stands based on the current position and being able to continue to "see" that throughout his calculations; which for Carlsen, sometimes go 15-20 moves deep!!! This is why Carlsen is able to chip away .02-.05 pawn at a time just waiting for a bigger gap to emerge! Kasparov is the KING of, and the better attacking tactician, 15-20 moves deep! ;)

[JohnnySkillish]

Also curious, with Carlsen taking initiative after the Black a-pawns fall, and with Topalov facing two opportunities to trade off Queens with Carlsen, and declining to do so, isn't Topalov kind of perpetuating Carslen's re-positioning and consolidation by giving him these tempi?! Position seeming somewhat unclear early on in the middle game, with Topalov's Knight appearing to be much more of a menace than what it turned out to be, should he have traded Queen's at "the right time"???

[Master8laster]

@2TheDeath Yeah , Karpov was the master at exploiting small weaknesses so it looks like with carlsen most of the time

[880330145789]

KC do u offer lessons

[quagapp]

an attack is just method of play. I probably sound a bit pompous as I am trying to remind, understand it all, myself here!

It is the problem of styles in chess - between very strong players play each other the styles tend to kind of "cancel out". Matches such as Karpov-Korchnoi showed that or Alekhine-Capa etc

[quagapp]

Kasparov learnt frm playing Karpov. Carlsen is more in the mode of Capablanca, Karpov or Fischer in his great grasp of positions and plans. And Kasparov loved attacking but would change o positional chess, so called, when required. As in fact Topalov does. Attack and defense for "tactical" play v positional are all really myths (in that they are though not interlinked) -

[Ruxistico]

sounds interesting. A link?

[bryson55]

"An eviction notice". I loved that line.

[2TheDeath]

kasparov actually said in a recent interview Carlsen plays more like karpov.