Magnus Carlsen's Perfect Chess Grind - Top 10 of the 2010s - Carlsen vs. Karjakin, 2013
The 2010s were Magnus Carlsen's decade! He absolutely dominated the chess landscape. Despite that, you might be hard-pressed to think of Carlsen's best game of the decade. My pick is his 2013 victory over Sergey Karjakin. Magnus' style has evolved over the decade, but here, you see him in his famous grind form, squeezing water from stones.
Top 10 Games of the 2010s
- #1: Aronian vs. Anand, 2013 (blog)
- #2: Wei Yi vs. Bruzon Bautista, 2015 (blog)
- #3: Alphazero vs. Stockfish, 2017 (blog)
- #4: Aronian vs. Kramnik, 2018 (blog)
- #5: Carlsen vs. Karjakin, 2013
- #6: Gelfand vs. Nakamura, 2010 (blog)
- #7: Dubov vs. Giri, 2019 (blog)
- #8: Bai Jinshi vs. Ding Liren, 2017 (blog)
- #9: Aronian vs. Carlsen, 2017 (blog)
- #10: Firouzja vs. Zarkovic, 2019 (blog)
Lessons:
- Chess is a marathon; not a sprint.
- Not all opposite-colored bishop endings are drawn (esp. with rooks on).
- Challenge your opponent to calculate when they are in time pressure.
My brief(ish) annotations are below.
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