aravind_war1 wrote:
Anand wil beat Carlsen
lol
Baden-Baden 2015
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Feb 6, 2015
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Naiditsch showed the way to play Magnus...deny him space to activate his pieces optimally and Magnus will do something rash as with his Bishop sacrifice. Carlsen tried a Bishop sacrifice against Caruana in the 2014 Sinquefield cup in an attempt to get some sort of counter play but it was to no avail as as he lost that game as well.
trotters64 wrote:
Naiditsch showed the way to play Magnus...deny him space to activate his pieces optimally and Magnus will do something rash as with his Bishop sacrifice. Carlsen tried a Bishop sacrifice against Caruana in the 2014 Sinquefield cup in an attempt to get some sort of counter play but it was to no avail as as he lost that game as well.
The bishop sacrice were according to Stockfish the right way to go in a hard position. He managed to get som counterplay but then he blundered a piece and made a bad postion worse.
RobK44 wrote:
What is Anand doing?
Losing it seems. Some very strange blunders today.
Carlsen interview after the game was interesting - I've usually seen him interviewed by lesser players, but he had a bit of respect for Nigel Short, who for all his buffoonery is/was a top class player.
It looks as if Anand had given up when he played Rd7 (though the computer still had the game very close). I think Anand has a big psychological problem against Carlsen. Carlsen was also quite gracious about Naiditsch saying he played well yesterday.
Anand is so bad he can make Aronian come back from the dead. Incredible.
So tomorrow Caruana-Carlsen or Carlsen-Caruana?
Unforuntaely Caruana have the white pieces. Will Magnus go for a win or will he go for something drawish?
I hope for Caruana's win to make more drama in the end.
Everytime you hope for a Carlsen loss, Carlsen wins, so I hope you continue to hope for a Carlsen loss, quite hopeful dude.
Carlsen has had black in four of his six games, and a 2858 performance and +2 before the last round is not bad considering this. If he beats Bacrot with white he had an excellent tournament, if he draws it will still have been a fairly good one.
fabelhaft, are you German?
Nein!
Come to think of it, if Carlsen loses with white and the other games are drawn he will finish second on tiebreak. Even that wouldn't be too bad for a bad tournament compared to how good tournament results looked for his latest predecessors during their reigns.
My prediction is that Caruana beats Baramidze and that the other games are drawn, and that the organisers will be scratching their heads concerning how to make that night tiebreak work with three time consuming matches (if that's how it's supposed to be) on top of what could be a very late last round.
Haha, Short is funny! How to refute French Tarrasch. 
So bad there is no chess on my TV. My only source of chessic info is these forums.
Cannot watch this? https://chess24.com/en/watch/live-tournaments/grenkechessclassic2015/7/1/3
Feb 9, 2015
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#38
Typical Carlsen..blunders away a winning position in the last classical game and still wins the event by virtue of choosing the white pieces in armageddon. Carlsen beat Adams who is his second and therefore his employer, Baramidze the fish with the white pieces and Anand who had a dreadful event and looks woefully out of shape.
Nonetheless Magnus did better than the rest in the final analysis and congrats to him although he did actually lose rating points over the course of the event.
trotters64 wrote:
Typical Carlsen..blunders away a winning position in the last classical game and still wins the event by virtue of choosing the white pieces in armageddon. Carlsen beat Adams who is his second and therefore his employer, Baramidze the fish with the white pieces and Anand who had a dreadful event and looks woefully out of shape.
Nonetheless Magnus did better than the rest in the final analysis and congrats to him although he did actually lose rating points over the course of the event.
This comment makes absolute zero sense.
Trott the Trotter
Anand may be a bit past his peak, but having 9-1 in wins against him over the last five years is quite an achievement. The period does cover several years during which he was World Champion, and later good enough to win the Candidates clearly, so he is not exactly a bad player.