Surprise endings and funny games

Stalemate!

I think the king has to get ahead of the pawn by the 6th rank to prevail, if I recall my endgame lessons. Also something about odd square opposition, but you probably already know this.

Yes, I think my opponent made a blunder by letting my king get ahead of his pawn  My opponent was probably winning up to that point. 

So, if he had chosen 73. Kg5 instead of 73. g5, he would have been better off.

Yes.  That's also my understanding. Ninety moves, I guess that's where all the patience from Norsky 'slow tv' pays off. (P.S. I like the slow tv idea.)

I like the idea of accomplishing a stalemate when the game looks very very bad to me

I did not wish to take away from the accomplishment.  It was one  hard fought game on both sides.

I really enjoyed watching the Carlsen-Caruana game last night, 6 hours with patience and accurate  calculations, and two guys staring at the board like two cats just waitung for the right move to show up. I had to take several breaks to be able to keep up the concentration, but I learn a lot from such games.

I'll have to check out the series.

Carlsen-Caruana game number 6 had 80 moves! And had a series of knight-moves in the beginning. That was a very intriguing match. But the one last match was a long-lasting one with cautious moves.

Do you see the series on chess,com or through, say, the Guardian?

I have seen some of it on chess.com (twitch), but the Norwegian TV is covering it all, so most I have seen most of it there.

OK, thanks!

This game had some funny tactics...I succeded to trap the opponent's rook with a pawn and bishop, see move 46 

Good game.

Thanks! It was certainly not any boring game

I have also trapped a rook in this way:

It is white to move. He beat me in the other game we had, but he will not accept a draw on this.  I see no way he can win.  ( I am not asking for advice, which would be wrong. )  Thanks for sharing your positions. Far more interesting than mine.

You can post the result here

I think that the way to accomplish a draw in such games is just to stay very patient and make sure that your king and bishop stops those pawns. Sooner or later, you will accomplish a repetition of moves, even if the bishop can move between several different squares. But your opponent sure hopes that you will make a mistake.