It seemed like Magnus had everything under control in the rapid games. Sergey could never get the initiative and never seriously threatened. The ability to calculate that checkmate under this pressure was fantastic.
Hi Mato, I see you only made a video about games 3 and 4 of the tie break, which were both won by Carlsen, while games 1 and 2 both were draws. But game 2 was perhaps the most epic game of the championship! Carlsen had a totally winning position, with more than 10 minutes on the clock, while Karjakin had a totally lost position with less than a minute on the clock. Everyone thought it was game over. But somehow Karjakin managed to pull out an epic draw. Everyone, including Carlsen, were stunned by this miracle. Kudos for Karjakin for his extraordinary defensive skills, but kudos for Carlson for keeping his cool, and remaining the world champion with an epic win in the final game of the tie break.
i was in chess24 channel cause they were streaming this match, chat was taking about Mato for like 20 minutes :D best was when Carlsen found the killer move, was the perfect Mato reference!
Probably didn't calculate it all out (esp in a blitz game) but I'm sure he saw It still becomes a forced mate quite quickly after 1. Rxf8+ Kxf8 2. Rxf7+ Ke8 3. Rf8+ ...
Although there are more moves, the Bf8 variation is very clearly mate and a player of Magnus's caliber hardly needs to calculate it. It is a very common mating sequence that he's intimately familiar with. That's why Karjakin moved his king in like 1 second without thought, because it is obvious that blocking with the bishop is mate, there is only one possible move that is maybe not mate. The mate that did happen is a much less common pattern that is very difficult to see under the conditions in the blitz game, so it's incredible that Magnus did it, under the stress of a mate-in-one. (by the way, there is no way Magnus would play a move like Rc8 without being 100% sure that it's mate)
Hey, can someone please explain why Queen to G3 or Rook to G1 don't work in defending against Black's mate on G2? Of course I know it was better to win with C8, but are those bad moves?
Wow, I followed the match closely, but I didn't know that. Well to be world champion is an awesome birthday present. And with this game he also had a present for all the chessfans. Too bad I was rooting for Karjakin. I kinda feel sorry for him. But Magnus deserved the win
Josephus Mutzenbacher I was rooting for Magnus Carlsen, but I like how humble and likable and a class act Karjakin is which made me feel sad for him. However, he made a nice payday coming in second at $400,000.
6:30 is Queen to G3 bad? I know that what Carlsen did was the best choice, but I would have moved my Queen to G3. Is that bad? You defend everything and keep playing, right?
It would have been very interesting if Carlsen had chosen to play King's Gambit. Give Karjakin a bit of hope, but also likely psych him out at the same time.
i see people really loving the last move i mean it was great in all .......... but it was kind of easy to find and a forced mate real sacrifices like with tal are made in the middle game with no apparant reasons at first and then show thier value later
rapid games that are used if game is tied after classical games. shorter times make mistakes more likely, and so more chance of one player winning instead of drawing.
+MatoJelic nego moram ti rec da te vec godinama gledam...zapravo moja prva pretplata je bila na tvoj kanal...dok sam jos imo pretplate....super mi je to sto prenosis zapise bez previse nepotrebnih prica a plus zgodne šale....tolko puta sam ti se nasmijo i hvala ti zbog toga i hvala ti što si mi odgovorio
calrsen is setting an inhuman limit in chess history which no can can even think of. he is really different. well tried karjakin, he too played well but apart from skills i think preparation is also a factor
In a desperate must-win situation like this game, I think it would be an interesting choice by Karjakin to sacrifice the knight and to go for a king hunt: at 1:03 Nxe4, fxe4, Qh4...
Emanuele Lopalco If the suggested knight sacrifice in the sixth move of a well-known and thoroughly analyzed opening were sound, it would have been mentioned in the openings books, it would be known to the two contestants, and Carlsen would not have played the moves leading to this position.
The position you are referencing is a very well-studied position, one move away from being the Najdorf Sicilian which is literally one of the most studied openings (if not the actual single most studied opening) If there was any way to create a winning attack from that position, people would know about it. These early moves in the Sicilian have been so deeply studied, and both Magnus and Karjakin were working entirely from their books at this point. The actual "game" doesn't start until later, when the positions deviate from the known lines.
Karjakin is much better than I anticipated...I thought Carlsen would destroy him easily...Not the case at all...But that last move from Carlsen...Amazing!
it's so stupid to use rapid chess tie breaker for a classical chess championship...i admit rapid chess is more exciting but its for a different title. if the score was a draw, then magnus should retain the title until someone beats him. i was actually surprised that sergey lost considering he is the current blitz champion.
It must be understood, of course, that Carlsen didn't just find the killing Qh6+ out of the blue. After Rook c1, at the latest, he had spotted the possibility of this truly spectacular finish. Karjakin is an extremely boring player and I'm very happy that his "homo sovjeticus" style didn't meet with lasting success.
It seemed like Magnus had everything under control in the rapid games. Sergey could never get the initiative and never seriously threatened. The ability to calculate that checkmate under this pressure was fantastic.
Hi Mato, I see you only made a video about games 3 and 4 of the tie break, which were both won by Carlsen, while games 1 and 2 both were draws. But game 2 was perhaps the most epic game of the championship! Carlsen had a totally winning position, with more than 10 minutes on the clock, while Karjakin had a totally lost position with less than a minute on the clock. Everyone thought it was game over. But somehow Karjakin managed to pull out an epic draw. Everyone, including Carlsen, were stunned by this miracle. Kudos for Karjakin for his extraordinary defensive skills, but kudos for Carlson for keeping his cool, and remaining the world champion with an epic win in the final game of the tie break.
i was in chess24 channel cause they were streaming this match, chat was taking about Mato for like 20 minutes :D
best was when Carlsen found the killer move, was the perfect Mato reference!
The only game which produced TAL move.
TAL move is when you move a knight to a square that is attacked by enemy pawn.
Ignas Valatka LoL.That would be double TAL.
Nazir Lone
Tal move is when you sacrifice your rook, queen and king and still win somehow ;)
epic game, one for the history books
Carlsen's final moves are on the chess.com daily puzzle haha
It was lichess's daily puzzle too.
I was waiting for this since morning. After watching your videos Mato, I don't like to see anyone else's..:P Thank you..:)
Love how you presented this game! Thanks.
Its just a matter of time until Magnus Carlsen is fully warmed up
Thank you Mato, wonderful commentary as usual. Yes, what a spectacular ending to the whole match!
nice commentary on the match, and epic ending with queen sacrifice.
where is the game one and two for tie break His Majesty Mato?
great game and a great presentation of it
He finished it off in style.
Karjakin's play looked like he'd given up before the game got started.
Why in move 49, Karjakin didn't defend the King with the Bishop?
Magnus makes perfect,undeniably....
Great Magnus. Championship best game
After so many boring draws, Magnus finally presented a Tal-style killa move... Thank you Sifu...
i think next candidates's tournament will be very very interesting
amazing spectacular finish
Love this game , I wonder what Tal would have said after he watched it ?
12 classical match and 4 rapid..but only the last move ..woooowww what a move TAL move
I played this ending (correctly) yesterday, as a puzzle at lichess. I didn't know it came from this game! lol
Thank you, Mato.
Same. LOL
the last move is real a 'wow move'! it was so beautiful!
What if, in response to R - c8ch, Black plays B - f8?
49...Bf8 50.Rxf8+ Kxf8 51.Rxf7+ Ke8 52.Rf8+ Kd7 53.Qf7+ Kc6 54.Rc8+ Kb5 55.Qc4+ Ka5 56.Ra8#]
wow
Good stuff Mato
+Lucas W. black bishop to f8 would save the game for Sergy and maybe win.check it out
You are right. I think Karjakin was under a huge pressure so he didn't see this best defence.lol
I wonder if Carlsen calculated the mate in 8. Because it's not so easy to force a mate if black blocks with the bishop instead of moving the king.
Probably didn't calculate it all out (esp in a blitz game) but I'm sure he saw It still becomes a forced mate quite quickly after 1. Rxf8+ Kxf8 2. Rxf7+ Ke8 3. Rf8+ ...
Although there are more moves, the Bf8 variation is very clearly mate and a player of Magnus's caliber hardly needs to calculate it. It is a very common mating sequence that he's intimately familiar with. That's why Karjakin moved his king in like 1 second without thought, because it is obvious that blocking with the bishop is mate, there is only one possible move that is maybe not mate.
The mate that did happen is a much less common pattern that is very difficult to see under the conditions in the blitz game, so it's incredible that Magnus did it, under the stress of a mate-in-one.
(by the way, there is no way Magnus would play a move like Rc8 without being 100% sure that it's mate)
Would it be BM for Magnus to offer a draw?
Then no player would ever play with him again
Great game! Thanks
@6:53 why did black not block with the bishop to f8 ? oh yea i see it .mate in ten
Beautiful. Carlsen is the best player of the world.
took a lot of games for a move like carlsens last,where were they many games ago,to safe a play.
Hey, can someone please explain why Queen to G3 or Rook to G1 don't work in defending against Black's mate on G2? Of course I know it was better to win with C8, but are those bad moves?
do u have a book I could maybe buy? big fan tho, been around for about 5 years now, love your vids
wow, Magnus nailed it! great game!
What makes this game great for Magnus perhaps not only the checkmate but it happened on his 26th birthday. What a present!!!!
Wait.. What? Magnus retained his title on his actual birthday?
Josephus Mutzenbacher Yes he turned 26 on the same day!!!
Wow, I followed the match closely, but I didn't know that. Well to be world champion is an awesome birthday present. And with this game he also had a present for all the chessfans.
Too bad I was rooting for Karjakin. I kinda feel sorry for him.
But Magnus deserved the win
Josephus Mutzenbacher I was rooting for Magnus Carlsen, but I like how humble and likable and a class act Karjakin is which made me feel sad for him. However, he made a nice payday coming in second at $400,000.
Cameron T, a gentleman indeed, hope he becomes world champion one day too
I have to admit, black did not look good early on for a win and Karjakin gave it his all. Sad he lost but well played all around.
Elegant finish by Carlsen.
6:30 is Queen to G3 bad? I know that what Carlsen did was the best choice, but I would have moved my Queen to G3. Is that bad? You defend everything and keep playing, right?
BITS20000
Yeah, but I'm not Carlsen. How would you defend that? Most likely you wouldn't see what Carlsen sees.
Karjakin should have let him get the mate. What's one more move?
Thanks Mato
other possibility to win game was Rxf7
It would have been very interesting if Carlsen had chosen to play King's Gambit. Give Karjakin a bit of hope, but also likely psych him out at the same time.
Magnus came thru.
Hooray
i see people really loving the last move
i mean it was great in all .......... but it was kind of easy to find and a forced mate
real sacrifices like with tal are made in the middle game with no apparant reasons at first and then show thier value later
That fork that Karjakin let happen .... I dont understand it
6:56 B f8 ??
Reda Mer
49. … Bf8
50. R×f8+ K×f8
51. R×f7+
51. … Kg8
52. Rf8+ Kh7
53. Qf5+ g6 (resp. Kh6)
54. Q×g6+ (resp. Rh8+) mate
51. … Ke8
52. Rf8+
52. … Ke7
53. Qf7+ mate
52. … Kd7
53. Qf7+ Kc6
54. Rc8+ Kb5
55. Qc4+ … Ka5
56. Ra8+ mate
+ein Steppenwolf Thank you 😊
Sergey showed how he deserved to championship
really it is not fear to play rapid games
thanks
what does it mean tie break ?
"tie" "break"... there is a tie and they play to set a winner
RayLitos thanks
rapid games that are used if game is tied after classical games. shorter times make mistakes more likely, and so more chance of one player winning instead of drawing.
Landau " thank you "
Landau, my respects to you and your kind, who answers new fans of the game with the utmost care and respect.
6th move, 1:04 - why not ? - ...Nxe4 ; ?
if - fxe4 then ...Qh4+ ; with a well known continuation :D
Mato I am stuck in one level what should I do to improve my game
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e Mato moj ti si kul tip,hvala ti za ove prijenose
Skoro sam reko ivek - pivek, al necu
+MatoJelic nego moram ti rec da te vec godinama gledam...zapravo moja prva pretplata je bila na tvoj kanal...dok sam jos imo pretplate....super mi je to sto prenosis zapise bez previse nepotrebnih prica a plus zgodne šale....tolko puta sam ti se nasmijo i hvala ti zbog toga i hvala ti što si mi odgovorio
Iz kojeg si mjesta
How would the game have ended if Black had blocked the rook check with B-f8 instead of moving the King to H7?
1201 Alarm
49. … Bf8
50. R×f8+ K×f8
51. R×f7+
51. … Kg8
52. Rf8+ Kh7
53. Qf5+ g6 (resp. Kh6)
54. Q×g6+ (resp. Rh8+) mate
51. … Ke8
52. Rf8+
52. … Ke7
53. Qf7+ mate
52. … Kd7
53. Qf7+ Kc6
54. Rc8+ Kb5
55. Qc4+ … Ka5
56. Ra8+ mate
calrsen is setting an inhuman limit in chess history which no can can even think of.
he is really different. well tried karjakin, he too played well but apart from skills i think
preparation is also a factor
Gangsta!!!BRAVO!!!BRAVO!!
6:25 and 5:00 oh my God laughed so hard 😂
makes it look easy
very nice koment Mato as always
Mato, please game 1 and 2. I want to see in your channel
where 1,2 games?
They were boring draws. Ain't nobody got time for that.
tjaeger5 It was an exciting draw, in fact Magnus missed checkmate because of time
Yeah that's the best game
In a desperate must-win situation like this game, I think it would be an interesting choice by Karjakin to sacrifice the knight and to go for a king hunt: at 1:03 Nxe4, fxe4, Qh4...
Sacrifice a knight when none of his pieces are developed? There is no chance it would work.
yes, knigt for 2 powns and white without castel
Emanuele Lopalco
If the suggested knight sacrifice in the sixth move of a well-known and thoroughly analyzed opening were sound, it would have been mentioned in the openings books, it would be known to the two contestants, and Carlsen would not have played the moves leading to this position.
Emanuele Lopalco that's too risky if you play against number 1 player of the world
The position you are referencing is a very well-studied position, one move away from being the Najdorf Sicilian which is literally one of the most studied openings (if not the actual single most studied opening)
If there was any way to create a winning attack from that position, people would know about it. These early moves in the Sicilian have been so deeply studied, and both Magnus and Karjakin were working entirely from their books at this point. The actual "game" doesn't start until later, when the positions deviate from the known lines.
C4, something different... desperate times, dsperate mearsures !!
what an end
Hello mato.
So Giving up that little pawn on H-file cost Karjakin the whole game. Maybe?
4:58 I cant believe it..GM got blundered in championship match ??
Karjakin had very little time.
kenjidaniel domingo that's not a blunder, he just creating a pass pawn and also intending ...d5; exd5 bc5
at that point Karjakin had under 1 minute of time left compared to carlsen's around 7 minutes
he didnt blunder he might have thought winning 2 pawns and knight for a rook is ok for him. if reached endgame might favor the one with more pawns.
Karjakin would be in a lousy position if he retreated his rook and lost a second pawn. The best chance was to make some complications
How much did Carlsen pocket for his victory?
Enough to buy a round at Trump Plaza...
Karjakin is much better than I anticipated...I thought Carlsen would destroy him easily...Not the case at all...But that last move from Carlsen...Amazing!
Nothing serious; just Checkmate. LOL!
paused @6:35 rook to g1
Congrats Norway! 🇳🇴🇳🇴🇳🇴 Carlsen reigns..
7:00
You cannot defeat machines like carlsen unless you are the chess Giant Kasparov.
5:00 hahahahahahahahahahahaha 😂😂
It is so sad for me that I'm better than Carlsen in sacrificing queens.
+Moe Lester what if black bishop moved to f8 to defend his king.that maybe avoid sacrificing the queen by Magnus.Do u agree?
+Moe Lester Never
+Moe Lester Focus on the whole possible moves for both players since move 49 and u will find out what I am talking about my friend
I got 2 out of 3 moves right, that's my personal best! ^^'
Mato you should grow a beard. Your voice sounds like you should have a beard.
So Carlsen won the Championship or Karjakin won that?
1st!hi mato
Yoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!
it's so stupid to use rapid chess tie breaker for a classical chess championship...i admit rapid chess is more exciting but its for a different title.
if the score was a draw, then magnus should retain the title until someone beats him. i was actually surprised that sergey lost considering he is the current blitz champion.
Ηi. I'm 2400 but *I don't understand* why Magnus *sacked his QUEEN* at the last move. (come at me bro!!)
2400 what?
Because checkmate, that's why
I'm rated 240 but maybe I can explain. Black can only make two moves. Both result in mate in one for white.
if gxh6 then Rxf7#
if Kxh6 then Rh8#
You're right of course, TJ, but I think he was just putting us on.
It must be understood, of course, that Carlsen didn't just find the killing Qh6+ out of the blue. After Rook c1, at the latest, he had spotted the possibility of this truly spectacular finish. Karjakin is an extremely boring player and I'm very happy that his "homo sovjeticus" style didn't meet with lasting success.
The Soviet-Union did not exist at the time of the ancient Romans, so i think the "correct" spelling in Latin might still be open for debate!