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Whenever I want to predict the outcome of these games I try to predict which version of Alireza is playing. Is it the young, intuitive tactician playing without fear and attacking? Or as happens when playing Magnus at times is it the tentative youngster that needs a bit more experience in high profile tournaments and makes mistakes under pressure? So I break out my special chess board and planchette and let the chess spirits guide me. That’s right, I have a Firouija Board.
Hi Daniel, I remember watching ur vids when I started chess. Really weird how some other chess channels have more subscribers... Even when they just include bare repeating of moves... thx for content sir.
Great analysis, Daniel. What a game by MC. According to himself, in the interview on Norwegian TV, he felt he did not have much control of what was going on...Nevertheless, a fantastic game.
To gamble like this in your first game over the board in months after his dissapointing speedchess results against the brighest protegy is Magnus Carlsen in a nutshell
Sacrificing 2 pawns and the exchange on the rook to bust the king's pawns while also building a cannon of 2 rooks and a queen duly lined up for attack and all leading to mate when the vast majority of players would settle for a draw - excellent game!
When Firouzja played bishop to f7 instead of K to h8, it is helpful to remember that Firouzja had very little time left. f7 is a tempting and more natural looking move when you don't have time to think. K to h8 only looks to work if you have a long time to calculate.
Also, when pronouncing Firouzja's name, you place a stong emphasis on the J. I've not heard anyone else say it that way, but instead with a softer "zya" kind of way. I wonder how Firouzja himself says it.
I suspect the reason Firouzja didn't play 35...Kh8 wasn't because of 36.Nxh6 Bh5 (if you see Nxh6 you might realize it works even better against Bf7), but rather because he was afraid of 36.Qf5 - and now in order to survive Black has to see the idea of 36...Qb6+ followed by 37...Bg6! . Both players had about one minute left on their clocks at that point.
Clock was a factor as well, I believe, but considering Firouzja's reputation in bullet and blitz it was outstanding to see King Carlsen calculate all this in seconds. Hail the King! 😎👍
@@softan Yeah, well ... "started with the same amount of time on the clock" ... should be obvious to most. My point of mentioning the time was that Mr. King didn't say anything about the time pressure, and Firouzja slipped. Carlsen took a huge risk, sacrificing two pawns for the initiative. He figured that Firouzja's winning chances on the Queenside was too hard to calculate in time trouble and he was right! Amazing level of thinking by the World's no. 1!
Excellent! But no-one seems to question why AF did not put his N on g3 rather than (as looked sensible) retreating it. Sesse gave that as a clear Black advantage. V fine margins. But a super example of the psychological/practical advantage of pressing for the initiative and taking smart dynamic risks to defeat another puny human.
Inspired by Alphazero? One of the more elegant games I have seen. No Idea if the strategy is tactically sound like alphazeros similar ideas always were but it doesn’t matter that much when you are playing against a human. Beautiful game and excellent analysis, thanks!
To complete the picture... Last encounter of those two has shown Alireza cracking under psychological and clock pressure in 0.00 position. This might have influenced Carlsen's decisions.
@7:09 Daniel Naroditsky found the funny idea behind Re5. If Black isn't careful and plays an unsuspecting move like for instance ...Rdc8 then it follows g3! Qxf3 Re3 and the black Queen is trapped. Edit: If I had actually watched the video to the end I would have learned that Daniel (King) mentioned this opportunity a bit later and analysed it of course. So what to take from it? Watch the video completely then comment!
@@aluminiumknight4038 Google for "Tata Steel Chess" to find the official site. They are streaming the event with Naroditsky and Fiona Steil as commentators.
Unfortunately one mistake too many! Don't forget he is playing against perhaps the best player ever in the world and he is very young. He needs a bit more time to get stronger both psychologically and gaining more experience. Time is definitely on his side and carrying and progressing the way he has been doing so far, no reason for him not to challenge MC and become WC. Who knows??
@@warnaoh Well, don't forget Alireza beat MC in bullit and in Norway he was second to MC losing to him on a mistake. That's why he needs experience and although MC is absolutely a great player, there's only one way for him to go that's down. Having said all that, I feel we expect too much from Alireza at this age.
Yeah, the bishop has to move in order to defend against the mate threat on g8 - and it has to be along the e8-h5 diagonal, otherwise Qg6 would win immediately.
To us club players Alireza Firouzja simply looks great at everything, but judging by this game it seems Magnus Carlsen has decided that it is better to be attacking Alireza Firouzja, even with some risk, than to be defending against him.
Great analysis. Seems like Firouja gets a little gunshy around Magnus (along with most everyone else!) Were you ever intimidated by more established players when you were coming up, Mr. King?
Without engines, everyone would admire Magnus for this game, he showed inspiring moves, I especially liked his Qe3!! move to prepare the final attack, Firouzja just played normal moves, no one inspired me.
Thanks for the analysis! Firouzja apparently didn't had a lot of time on his clock when he played 35...Bf7, but he'd spent 26 minutes on his prior move 34...Ne6 (taking the rook). So perhaps he missed something? After 35...Kh8, who would find 36...Bh5?
Actually, at that point of the game both players had only about one minute left on their clocks and were playing quickly; you can see that on the live video feed from the playing hall (th-cam.com/video/sVPNw9aiIHI/w-d-xo.html). I also saw 26 minutes on chess24, but the clock times appearing there for the whole game are very unreliable because of some transmission problems they had today.
37...Rc7 (or Ra7, for that matter) stops the mating threats, but it doesn't defend against another rather obvious threat - the rook-lift Re5 followed by Rg5+, where at best Black would have to give up his queen for the rook; not mate, but a rather easy win for White. 37...Qc7 actually made a lot of sense because it defended both against that & against the most obvious mating threat starting with Bh7+ that's mentioned in video. Unfortunately for Firouzja there was also the less obvious mating threat, which Carlsen executed in the game...
@@eyalsegal5003 How can you say it makes a lot of sense when it leads to a forced mate. Rc7 is a MUCH better try as there is no forced mate and plenty of ways to go wrong such as Qh7+ and now it is drawn. BTW your line leads to 2 rooks+B against a Q+B. White is still better but not mating like with Qc7 and by no means and easy win.
@@exponentmantissa5598 What I meant is that it makes sense Firouzja (who had very little time to think at this point) saw the two more *obvious* threats that Qc7 defends against and not the less obvious threat that Carlsen actually executed in the game; the objective value of the moves is irrelevant in this context. Btw, if we're talking about the objective value of the moves, the option of Ra7/c7 is of course more resilient than getting mated, but after something like 37 ... Ra7 38. Re5 Be8 39. Rg5 + Qxg5 40. Qxg5 + Rg7 41. Qxd5 + Bf7 42. Qa5 Bb3 43. h4 it should still be a rather easy win for White with such a completely exposed black king and three connected passers on the K-side; it's not for nothing that computers evaluate this position as ca. +5 in favor of White. Note that 38...Be8 is forced here in order to even continue the game - if Black, say, tries to get immediate conterplay with 38 ... a3 he would lose on the spot to 39. Bh7 + Kh8 40. Bg6 + Kg8 41. Qh7 + Kf8 42. Bxf7 (it's important that the white rook is on e5 to prevent ...Qg5, defending against the mate threat on g8).
@@eyalsegal5003 You need to be more careful in your analysis. Where you list Rg5 in the first line leads to a dead loss for black as Qxd5+ wins the rook on a8 and this is why black sidesteps the check with Kf8 instead. LikeI said in my initial post Rc7 was a much better move that getting mated. There is no disputing that.
@@exponentmantissa5598 You need to be more careful in reading analysis. The sample line that I gave started with 37...Ra7 (which is essentially as good a move as Rc7), so the rook is no longer on a8; after Rc7 things could develop a bit differently, but White would still pick up the d5 pawn and the evaluation of the position remains basically the same. At any rate, as I already explained, I'm not disputing that playing either 37...Rc7 or Ra7 would be better than getting mated, it's simply not relevant to my initial comment.
I think Magnus got away with one in this game. I mean it is beautiful but once you see engine lines where Firou missed some chances to hang in -- e.g. with 35...kh8, it loses some luster.
You win games by forcing your opponent to make mistakes. In order to do that you have to put them under pressure, and to do that you sometimes have to take risks. When looking at these games with a machine, the factor that is lacking is human adrenaline. How do you react when your opponent plays aggressively? Can you keep your cool under pressure? We have seen this story unfold in Magnus's games on so many occasions. Sometimes he gets tripped up, but a lot of the time...
@@softan Hi, my point was to say more that Firouja didn't find the best defense. It wasn't to say that Magnus did not play very well. He set problems before his opponent. Surely when your king is attacked, you as a human are under pressure. But later under the microscope (whether engine or human analysis), a game does not stand up so well if you find a number of defenses for the loser.
@@PowerPlayChess Absolutely agree! Although it's not just the factor of adrenaline, but also time. I'm simply sayinig that when looking at possible immortal games or Game of the Year candidates, this one would not be in the running in my list, considering that are some flaws in Black's play near the end (while in time pressure, granted).
Carlsen, Magnus 2862 Age 30 VS Firouzja, Alireza 2749 Age 17 E10 - Queens Pawn Game Tata Steel Masters 2021 (1), 2021-01-16 1-0 this match from GM Magnus carlsen the match end in 40 move,when Alireza resign so I'll continue this match by my self from move 40-44 @ so I'll continue this match by my self from move 40-44 @ 40 Qh6+ Kf7 ,41 Bg6+ Kf6 , 42 Bh5+ Kf5 ,43 Qg6+ Kf4 , 44 Qg4# 1-0
I may come around as Mr. Denial but I think that's how Magnus wins many of his games. He pushes opponent into time trouble then comes out with complex , not necessarily good, moves. Don't know why young players like Ali can't keep up with Magnus ' time
@@abhishekkj9664 i totally agree but in this game he was asking to be punished by sacrificing this 2 pawns because after surviving wiith 2 only moves there is no way for black to hold a draw
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Brilliant analysis as always! Much love from Canada.
Great to have a top-level tournament back again, along with top-level commentary! Thanks GM.
Whenever I want to predict the outcome of these games I try to predict which version of Alireza is playing. Is it the young, intuitive tactician playing without fear and attacking? Or as happens when playing Magnus at times is it the tentative youngster that needs a bit more experience in high profile tournaments and makes mistakes under pressure?
So I break out my special chess board and planchette and let the chess spirits guide me.
That’s right, I have a Firouija Board.
That is the longest set up to a pun that I have ever heard
I always look forward to your puns!
Nice one
Hi Daniel, I remember watching ur vids when I started chess. Really weird how some other chess channels have more subscribers... Even when they just include bare repeating of moves... thx for content sir.
Great analysis, Daniel. What a game by MC. According to himself, in the interview on Norwegian TV, he felt he did not have much control of what was going on...Nevertheless, a fantastic game.
Fantastic game by Magnus. Yet again showing us why he's the best. :D
Carlsen has a heart of steel.
To gamble like this in your first game over the board in months after his dissapointing speedchess results against the brighest protegy is Magnus Carlsen in a nutshell
Great, instructive comment - as always (and a calm pleasant voice)
It's a great start. Well done, GM King. Big applause from up t'north!
I love how you say AliReza's name. Perfect pronunciation👌
Critics - Carlsen is too old to be called Prodigy.
Carlsen - hold my beer...
very good analysis, Thank you as always for this kind of High Level chess Video
Sacrificing 2 pawns and the exchange on the rook to bust the king's pawns while also building a cannon of 2 rooks and a queen duly lined up for attack and all leading to mate when the vast majority of players would settle for a draw - excellent game!
Schönes Spiel - gute Analyse!!
Greater the risk greater is the reward
That's why magnus is so great
What a game! Ty for covering!
Meet the new boss....same as the old boss!
He (Firouzja) will get schooled again.
Amazing game, thanks Danny 👍
Excellent commentary today
Really great game by Magnus. The Re5 was a brave move, He handled his rook very beautifully.
Re5 was the only move, what's brave in that I don't see
@@abhishekkj9664 yes Bro
Magnus the Magician from Lommedalen
When Firouzja played bishop to f7 instead of K to h8, it is helpful to remember that Firouzja had very little time left. f7 is a tempting and more natural looking move when you don't have time to think. K to h8 only looks to work if you have a long time to calculate.
Also, when pronouncing Firouzja's name, you place a stong emphasis on the J. I've not heard anyone else say it that way, but instead with a softer "zya" kind of way. I wonder how Firouzja himself says it.
Great analysis!
I suspect the reason Firouzja didn't play 35...Kh8 wasn't because of 36.Nxh6 Bh5 (if you see Nxh6 you might realize it works even better against Bf7), but rather because he was afraid of 36.Qf5 - and now in order to survive Black has to see the idea of 36...Qb6+ followed by 37...Bg6! . Both players had about one minute left on their clocks at that point.
Clock was a factor as well, I believe, but considering Firouzja's reputation in bullet and blitz it was outstanding to see King Carlsen calculate all this in seconds.
Hail the King! 😎👍
@@softan Yeah, well ... "started with the same amount of time on the clock" ...
should be obvious to most.
My point of mentioning the time was that Mr. King didn't say anything about the time pressure, and Firouzja slipped.
Carlsen took a huge risk, sacrificing two pawns for the initiative.
He figured that Firouzja's winning chances on the Queenside was too hard to calculate in time trouble and he was right!
Amazing level of thinking by the World's no. 1!
Excellent! But no-one seems to question why AF did not put his N on g3 rather than (as looked sensible) retreating it. Sesse gave that as a clear Black advantage. V fine margins. But a super example of the psychological/practical advantage of pressing for the initiative and taking smart dynamic risks to defeat another puny human.
Thanks again
great analysis
Inspired by Alphazero? One of the more elegant games I have seen. No Idea if the strategy is tactically sound like alphazeros similar ideas always were but it doesn’t matter that much when you are playing against a human. Beautiful game and excellent analysis, thanks!
To complete the picture... Last encounter of those two has shown Alireza cracking under psychological and clock pressure in 0.00 position. This might have influenced Carlsen's decisions.
@7:09 Daniel Naroditsky found the funny idea behind Re5. If Black isn't careful and plays an unsuspecting move like for instance ...Rdc8 then it follows g3! Qxf3 Re3 and the black Queen is trapped.
Edit: If I had actually watched the video to the end I would have learned that Daniel (King) mentioned this opportunity a bit later and analysed it of course. So what to take from it? Watch the video completely then comment!
On what channel does does he commentate?
@@aluminiumknight4038 Google for "Tata Steel Chess" to find the official site. They are streaming the event with Naroditsky and Fiona Steil as commentators.
@@7inrain thank you!
Love from Iran, computer says Alireza only made 1 mistake ... but it was fatal... this is the future of chess
Unfortunately one mistake too many!
Don't forget he is playing against perhaps the best player ever in the world and he is very young.
He needs a bit more time to get stronger both psychologically and gaining more experience.
Time is definitely on his side and carrying and progressing the way he has been doing so far, no reason for him not to challenge MC and become WC.
Who knows??
@@_madr In the last year I actually feel like it's Carlsen who's widening the gap against him and not the opposite.
@@warnaoh Well, don't forget Alireza beat MC in bullit and in Norway he was second to MC losing to him on a mistake. That's why he needs experience and although MC is absolutely a great player, there's only one way for him to go that's down.
Having said all that, I feel we expect too much from Alireza at this age.
@@warnaoh What?! Firouzja grew his rating by 50 points from 2700 to 2750 while Magnus was stagnated on 2860. So it's Firouzja who's closing in
@@SaeedAcronia 'Stagnated on 2860' :)
GM King - is it too much to ask for a banter blitz session for regular viewers please?
Great game by the World Champion.
Awesome game!
Blockchamps is proper
A spectacular game by Carlsen!
I think Carlsen said after the game that a4 was, practically, because of the clock times, a really bad decision by Alireza.
Final mistake ...Bf7 but who finds ...Kh8 followed by ...Bh5!?. Very hard to understand what ...Bh5 is even doing.
...Bh5 keeps the bishop on the e8-h5 diagonal. White was threatening Qg8mate.
Yeah, the bishop has to move in order to defend against the mate threat on g8 - and it has to be along the e8-h5 diagonal, otherwise Qg6 would win immediately.
To us club players Alireza Firouzja simply looks great at everything, but judging by this game it seems Magnus Carlsen has decided that it is better to be attacking Alireza Firouzja, even with some risk, than to be defending against him.
Is there a flaw with Rc7 instead of Bc6?
27...Rc7 28 Rxb7 Rxb7 29 Qxd5.
Suggestion to cover Giri Vs Tari with a nice "delayed Bongcloud"-like preparation by Giri against the Nxg4 piece sacrifice in the Anti-Berlin
Great analysis. Seems like Firouja gets a little gunshy around Magnus (along with most everyone else!)
Were you ever intimidated by more established players when you were coming up, Mr. King?
The problem was more that Firouzja was confident in keeping the pawn and push it, while it would have been wiser to give it back and aim for equality.
Without engines, everyone would admire Magnus for this game, he showed inspiring moves, I especially liked his Qe3!! move to prepare the final attack, Firouzja just played normal moves, no one inspired me.
MAGNUS has heart of platinum 😜🤟🤟
Awesome style than agad
I didn’t know Geralt played chess.
Wow! I assume it should be crushing for Alireza to lose a game in a tactical style like this ( not in a positional way)!!
Thanks for the analysis! Firouzja apparently didn't had a lot of time on his clock when he played 35...Bf7, but he'd spent 26 minutes on his prior move 34...Ne6 (taking the rook). So perhaps he missed something?
After 35...Kh8, who would find 36...Bh5?
Actually, at that point of the game both players had only about one minute left on their clocks and were playing quickly; you can see that on the live video feed from the playing hall (th-cam.com/video/sVPNw9aiIHI/w-d-xo.html). I also saw 26 minutes on chess24, but the clock times appearing there for the whole game are very unreliable because of some transmission problems they had today.
@@eyalsegal5003 Thanks for the info on the clock times and feeds.
What are the Covid restrictions for this tournament? How are the players keeping social distance when making their moves?
'Real' chess makes a return! :)
Lucky Magnus . His opponents keep on fallin into time trouble and Magnus, as usual , takes advantage of this.
Firouzja is my favorite but Carlsen is a genious
37...Rc7 stops the mate and gives white some chances to play the wrong move and perhaps draw. That said it is still a bad position for black.
37...Rc7 (or Ra7, for that matter) stops the mating threats, but it doesn't defend against another rather obvious threat - the rook-lift Re5 followed by Rg5+, where at best Black would have to give up his queen for the rook; not mate, but a rather easy win for White. 37...Qc7 actually made a lot of sense because it defended both against that & against the most obvious mating threat starting with Bh7+ that's mentioned in video. Unfortunately for Firouzja there was also the less obvious mating threat, which Carlsen executed in the game...
@@eyalsegal5003 How can you say it makes a lot of sense when it leads to a forced mate. Rc7 is a MUCH better try as there is no forced mate and plenty of ways to go wrong such as Qh7+ and now it is drawn. BTW your line leads to 2 rooks+B against a Q+B. White is still better but not mating like with Qc7 and by no means and easy win.
@@exponentmantissa5598 What I meant is that it makes sense Firouzja (who had very little time to think at this point) saw the two more *obvious* threats that Qc7 defends against and not the less obvious threat that Carlsen actually executed in the game; the objective value of the moves is irrelevant in this context.
Btw, if we're talking about the objective value of the moves, the option of Ra7/c7 is of course more resilient than getting mated, but after something like 37 ... Ra7 38. Re5 Be8 39. Rg5 + Qxg5 40. Qxg5 + Rg7 41. Qxd5 + Bf7 42. Qa5 Bb3 43. h4 it should still be a rather easy win for White with such a completely exposed black king and three connected passers on the K-side; it's not for nothing that computers evaluate this position as ca. +5 in favor of White. Note that 38...Be8 is forced here in order to even continue the game - if Black, say, tries to get immediate conterplay with 38 ... a3 he would lose on the spot to 39. Bh7 + Kh8 40. Bg6 + Kg8 41. Qh7 + Kf8 42. Bxf7 (it's important that the white rook is on e5 to prevent ...Qg5, defending against the mate threat on g8).
@@eyalsegal5003 You need to be more careful in your analysis. Where you list Rg5 in the first line leads to a dead loss for black as Qxd5+ wins the rook on a8 and this is why black sidesteps the check with Kf8 instead. LikeI said in my initial post Rc7 was a much better move that getting mated. There is no disputing that.
@@exponentmantissa5598 You need to be more careful in reading analysis. The sample line that I gave started with 37...Ra7 (which is essentially as good a move as Rc7), so the rook is no longer on a8; after Rc7 things could develop a bit differently, but White would still pick up the d5 pawn and the evaluation of the position remains basically the same. At any rate, as I already explained, I'm not disputing that playing either 37...Rc7 or Ra7 would be better than getting mated, it's simply not relevant to my initial comment.
I think Magnus got away with one in this game. I mean it is beautiful but once you see engine lines where Firou missed some chances to hang in -- e.g. with 35...kh8, it loses some luster.
You win games by forcing your opponent to make mistakes. In order to do that you have to put them under pressure, and to do that you sometimes have to take risks. When looking at these games with a machine, the factor that is lacking is human adrenaline. How do you react when your opponent plays aggressively? Can you keep your cool under pressure? We have seen this story unfold in Magnus's games on so many occasions. Sometimes he gets tripped up, but a lot of the time...
@@softan Hi, my point was to say more that Firouja didn't find the best defense. It wasn't to say that Magnus did not play very well. He set problems before his opponent. Surely when your king is attacked, you as a human are under pressure. But later under the microscope (whether engine or human analysis), a game does not stand up so well if you find a number of defenses for the loser.
@@PowerPlayChess Absolutely agree! Although it's not just the factor of adrenaline, but also time. I'm simply sayinig that when looking at possible immortal games or Game of the Year candidates, this one would not be in the running in my list, considering that are some flaws in Black's play near the end (while in time pressure, granted).
Magnus Gamblsen
Carlsen, Magnus 2862 Age 30
VS
Firouzja, Alireza 2749 Age 17
E10 - Queens Pawn Game
Tata Steel Masters 2021 (1), 2021-01-16
1-0
this match from GM Magnus carlsen
the match end in 40 move,when Alireza resign so I'll continue this match by my self from move 40-44
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so I'll continue this match by my self from move 40-44
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40 Qh6+ Kf7 ,41 Bg6+ Kf6 ,
42 Bh5+ Kf5 ,43 Qg6+ Kf4 ,
44 Qg4#
1-0
İ feel sad for ali reza. He played well until time becomes trouble
I may come around as Mr. Denial but I think that's how Magnus wins many of his games.
He pushes opponent into time trouble then comes out with complex , not necessarily good, moves.
Don't know why young players like Ali can't keep up with Magnus ' time
@@abhishekkj9664 Muslim?
@@abhishekkj9664 i totally agree but in this game he was asking to be punished by sacrificing this 2 pawns because after surviving wiith 2 only moves there is no way for black to hold a draw
first
So saaaad