Yes, after 71. Ke4 Magnus is gone!
Ivanchuk has promising position against Magnis!
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kramnik wins aronian lost so 7 points for kramnik
Kramnik. Aronion got too cute in a probably drawn endgame. Chucky has 90 seconds to win a rook endgame 2 pawns up.
'Magnis' is in a theoretically lost end game, 40 moves from mate ATOW.
Looks drawn now. But I've changed my mind twice in the last 10 moves!
Edit: and again. Actually seems to be a simple path to a Lucena for Ivanchuck. A win makes the next round very interesting.
what a thriller
Grumblesmurf wrote:
Looks drawn now. But I've changed my mind twice in the last 10 moves!
Na, easy Lucena.
It's game over - Chucky 1 - Magnus 0... throws this wide open.
Technically, the pawn needs to be on the 7th rank to be classed as a Lucena positon.
Great game. Unusual for Magnus to really misplay these types of positions (46.Ne8 appears to have been a lemon).
MatchStickKing wrote:
Technically, the pawn needs to be on the 7th rank to be classed as a Lucena positon.
Obviously Carlsen didn't need to see that, but couldn't stop Ivanchuk achieving it.
Did you just see the conference with Chucky and Magnis? Boy is such a crybaby - no credit to his opponent. Kept repeating "I blundered, I blundered" and left without saying anyting.
Scottrf wrote:
MatchStickKing wrote:
Technically, the pawn needs to be on the 7th rank to be classed as a Lucena positon.
Obviously Carlsen didn't need to see that, but couldn't stop Ivanchuk achieving it.
It's pure semantics, I agree - Carlsen was dead in the water, but technically a Lucena position wouldn't ever have been needed and best play would have led to a KR vs K endgame.
I guess you could condiser the position reached on move 9 a type of Lucena position, with the rook on the d file allowing the black king to step to the side free from checks. It's a different idea to a classical Lucena positon in which the rook bridges the king and pawn on the same file, allowing pawn promotion, but I really like it!
What is the life time series between Ivanchuk and Carlsen?
16:15 I think. They are pretty equal.
So Carlsen has to win both remaining games? Or 1 or what?
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Carlsen has to outscore Kramnik in the next two games, and hope the tiebreaks work in his favor. The way the tiebreaks work, there are too many permutations to calculate definitively without resorting to a table of probabilities.
SmyslovFan wrote:
Carlsen has to outscore Kramnik in the next two games, and hope the tiebreaks work in his favor. The way the tiebreaks work, there are too many permutations to calculate definitively without resorting to a table of probabilities.
Think about this. The number #1 rated player in the world not getting in. That should be an automatic and they have the option to decline. Trust me they are going to find a way for him to get in else the winner is going to look bad as people will say if Carlsen was in that tournament he would not have won.
The players that can win it want Carlsen in it!
Perhaps he can seal the point somehow.