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Thursday, December 27, 2018

Scholar's Mate Against a 2304 Opponent??

Carlsen loses his first two games at the World Rapid Championship.

[Event "FIDE World Rapid Championship"]
[Site "St. Petersburg"]
[Date "2018.12.26"]
[Round "2.1"]
[White "Carlsen, Magnus"]
[Black "Vokhidov, Shamsiddin"]
[Result "0-1"]
[WhiteElo "2903"]
[BlackElo "2304"]
[PlyCount "72"]
[EventDate "2018.??.??"]
[Whiteteam "Norway"]
[Blackteam "Uzbekistan"]
[Whiteteamcountry "NOR"]
[Blackteamcountry "UZB"]
[Whiteclock "0:08:40"]
[Blackclock "0:03:27"]
[CurrentPosition "8/R4p1k/4b1pp/8/3p4/2BP1P2/1PP2KP1/7q w - - 0 37"]

1.e4 e5 2.Qh5 Nc6 3.Bc4 g6 4.Qf3 ( 4.Qd1 Bg7 5.d3 Nf6 6.Nc3 d6 7.f4 Be6 8.Bb5 O-O { Adhiban,B (2655)-Cheparinov,I (2710) Riadh 2017 } ) 4...Qe7 5.Ne2 Nf6 $146 ( 5...Bg7 6.Nbc3 Nd8 7.Nd5 Qd6 8.Nec3 c6 9.Ne3 Ne6 10.a4 Nf6 { Grcic,M
(1953)-Cotenescu,D (1991) Vellmar 2010 } ) 6.d3 Bg7 7.Nbc3 h6 8.Nd5 Nxd5 9.exd5 Na5 10.d6 cxd6 11.Bd5 Nc6 12.Bd2 Qf6 13.Qe4 O-O 14.O-O Ne7 15.Nc3 Qf5 16.Qb4 Nxd5 17.Nxd5 Kh7 18.Nc7 Rb8 19.Qxd6 b6 20.f3? ( { So far Carlsen has
played an excellent and thematic game, and in form he would certainly have
found } 20.Ne8! { winning an exchange as } 20...Ra8 { loses to } 21.Nxg7 Kxg7 22.Bxh6+ ) 20...Bb7 21.Rae1 Rfc8 22.Bc3?? ( 22.Nb5 { had to be played, when Black
is "only" clearly better. } ) 22...Bf8! 23.Nb5 ( { Carlsen must have missed } 23.Qxe5 Qxe5 24.Bxe5 d6 ) 23...Bxd6 24.Nxd6 Qe6 25.Nxc8 Rxc8 26.Rxe5 Qd6 27.Rfe1 Bd5 28.a4 Be6 29.a5 bxa5 30.Kf1 Rc5 31.Rxc5 Qxc5 32.Ra1 d5 33.Rxa5 Qc7 34.Ra4 Qxh2 35.Rxa7 Qh1+ 36.Kf2 d4  0-1


https://www.chess.com/news/view/carlsen-loses-2-on-1st-day-world-rapid-chess-championship

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