Carlsen Takes A Flamethrower To ‘The Principles Of Chess’
05.01.2024
Magnus Carlsen Takes A Flamethrower To ‘The Principles Of Chess’ in this epic chess game against Pranav Anand, a young Indian chess prodigy. Magnus Carlsen played this chess game in the 2nd January 2024 chess.com Titled Tuesday Chess Tournament. Carlsen as usual playing a very weird chess opening and an epic chess battle then ensues. Truly stunning chess from Magnus Carlsen and a great fight from Anand.
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it used to b called little ears
Call it "The soup bowl."
So good to see your subscribers growing steadily brother. Well deserved. The crab 😂. Magnus the magician- I’d be thinking about resigning when he’s just getting started….
MAGNUS carlsen is doing what fischer couldn't do. Playing for fun. It takes a great deal of craziness to play like this. Except mikhail tal nobody has played bizzare chess. Magnus carlsen is going way over.even Kasparov at his prime was not this crazy to play like this. These short time control are helping him to play like this. Still the willingness to play like this is making Carlsen greatest of all time. Not afraid to loose.
To be fair, Magnus is getting these crazy wins with some significant whiffs from his opponents.
That's really stupid. It seems that all the other players are so scared of Magnus that they s…. their pants after any move he makes.
Well…… are then any other players? Just asking. It seems like a fetish.
I would call the opening when played by black 'The moustache'
The banana split!
I guessed bishop or knight take e7. I think the opening should be called disrespect variant 1. There are many.
Call it Carlsen's banana gambit.
I'm sure he want some kind of opening named after himself.
The GOAT
H6&A6=Gondola?
Tony -Miles played a6 against Karpov.
We should name this opening "vampire fangs"
"The Goat Opening"
Boomerang opening indeed
N x P (G6) also looked good to me
Pinsir used Guillotine, it's super effective.
If Magnus is bored from classical chess he should quit instead of playing such bad openings. He's not taking it serious anymore, i don't like it.
so Magnus plays a chill game, far from ideal and is waiting for a mistake of the opponent and then he destroys them… that's it
I don’t know why people think this is amazing play by Magnus. He’s the greatest chess player in the world, but he didn’t win this game, his opponent lost it. The Eval bar had his opponent in front by 7.5 at one point, and was regularly over 3 during the game.
The eval bar doesn’t swing from 7.5 in his opponents favour to being in Magnus’ favour because he’s played amazing moves, it’s because his opponent played bad moves.
Can you imagine caruana, nepo, hikaru not winning in that position?
Call it the DEVIL'S HORNS OPENING 👹
I think magnus is realizing that the opening and the middle game just doesn't matter, it's all about the end game. Magnus is simply better than anyone else when it comes to the end game. He can do silly openings, he can sack his pieces mid game because he knows that if he can get to the end game with roughly the same pieces as his opponent, he will beat them 99% of the time.
IM Mike Basman produced a leaflet for juniors on this opening, and yes, he called it 'The Creepy Crawley'. Played as black with 1…h6, 2…a6, 3…c5 (3…e6) or similarly played as White with 1.h3, 2.a3, 3. c4 (3.e3). As a result of Basman's opening ideas I've seen juniors open 1.h3 b6
Handicap chess to make it interesting.
Just unbelievable, and slightly disturbing…wow😳
For once i was actually hoping Magnus would lose. Totally ridiculous play
Thats not even fair…Carlsen was completely lost there
Magnus effect in action
This is cool, but the ideas are normal. In a blitz game Magnus calculated that fringe moves with limited book will throw his opponent off. Also that he's skilled enough to protect his king under such circumstances. The rest of us aren't so we keep to a tighter approach.
What people are missing is that after a few silly moves, magnus can play stockfish like moves and equalize the game very quickly, then just simply dominate the end game.
Lets be honest. magnus is doing this so an opening an be named after him. 😂
Stockfish could play the black side of 1. e4 a6 2. d4 h6. Of course it's weak but Stockfish could hold it against any human being at any time control.
Magnus is such a beast. He is so much better than any other chess player on the planet that he has to have fun by doing this kind of stuff. This is the stuff of the Morphy era. Give your opponent a material advantage to start the game. I wouldn’t want to face Magnus with the f pawn removed. That would be suicide with the open file for the rook, as Morphy showed many times. How many players would be good enough to beat Magnus with his queen off the board at the outset? Not me.
It‘s the Carlsen Claw ✌🏻
We should call this one in the king one in the queen
Call it the kamakazi opening the way he just sends pawns to there death in the name of victory
broken comb
The opening developed by English IM Michael Basman already has a name the creepy crawly, you should check out some of Basmans games a very original player who done so much for chess in England. Not a good opening at all except in the hands of Carlsen. Thanks James.
little GOAT horns
The banana opening is a nice name.
Nice
why would he take the knight? It doesn't seem like a very magnus thing to do? ignoring it seems an option, there is a bishop behind it, if it moves and takes anything the queen take the bishop and defends the pawns? I havent looked very deep into it but b5 seems a fun response? Rook c8? Surely he has something silly planned here?
I absolutely love your magnus content and your commentary! Please keep doing what you're doing! That said maybe in future you can do some classic games as well? Such as morphy capablanca fischer tal, etc. Would love to see your take on those if you have time to do so. Whatever you do I'll stay subscribed and keep watching, cheers!
please link your videos to an analysis board
I swear to god, you have the absolute best magnus photo library in the universe
Magnus can do inferior openings for TWO particular reasons, of which we saw in this game. The first, is that his opponents will likely not be keen enough to spot the winning ideas in these never before seen positions, and will struggle to leverage their opening advantage. Second, he knows that he can outplay almost any opponent in the endgame, should he make it that far, and he almost always does.
at 5:00 mark, Magnus SHOULD HAVE lost. But his opponent didn't keep pressing that middle properly.
This has nothing to do with chess principles and everything to do with fast thinking. Our excellent commentator shows black "absolutely dead lost" at 5:00. White's failure to exploit is just a result of time pressure, not some epical reconfiguration of opening theory.
Are you going to mention that the same opening was played yesterday against Kramnik?