MVL was fine until he missed a key queen move.
Apprently he was not so fine. Caruana's novelty (14.Rc1) poses Black serious problems.The suggested 17...Kf8 is actually closer to "lost" than "equal".
Here is some fast analysis, which is certainly better than the stupid engine evaluations at chessbomb:
With all due respect but how is this better than the engine evaluation? You just spew out some lines with no comment. lol
MVL was fine until he missed a key queen move.
Apprently he was not so fine. Caruana's novelty (14.Rc1) poses Black serious problems.The suggested 17...Kf8 is actually closer to "lost" than "equal".
Here is some fast analysis, which is certainly better than the stupid engine evaluations at chessbomb:
With all due respect but how is this better than the engine evaluation? You just spew out some lines with no comment. lol
Look at the positions, at least optically, black's positions look terrible, I'm not sure what he's supposed to explain.
After the game they asked about Kf8 and the players said it's very dangerous... and IMO, considering the clock, it's probably a quick way to lose.
MVL was fine until he missed a key queen move.
Apprently he was not so fine. Caruana's novelty (14.Rc1) poses Black serious problems.The suggested 17...Kf8 is actually closer to "lost" than "equal".
Here is some fast analysis, which is certainly better than the stupid engine evaluations at chessbomb:
With all due respect but how is this better than the engine evaluation? You just spew out some lines with no comment. lol
Little kids these days. All attack and pounce and no defense.
Carlsen playing the Italian against Caruana after winning with the Scandinavian last time...
He wasted his opportunity to play the French against MVL in the first round though.
Of course, that's not the Italian, I missed that there was no 2 Nf3 Nc6 before Bc4 :-)
Hard to see anything at all in the opening for white, will be interesting to see how Carlsen has planned to conjure something up from this position.
MVL's position against Aronian also looks good, and Nakamura hs at least equalised with black against Topalov.
Carlsen's bishop sac looks a bit too 19th century to work.
Bxf7! ..is Carlsen playing hope chess today ? Fabiano with 2 potent bishops...
I love #127. :)
Naka taking his time before going for the same bishop sac.
Not much of a sac though since the bishop can't be taken.
All 3 games about to feature sacs on f2/f7.
Nakamura blundered, lol.
Pity Naka decided against the pretty Bxf2, now the advantage is more or less gone until Topalov makes his next mistake.
Nakamura went from winning to worse in a few moves.
Yes...! The coward Aronian is losing!
Interesting to note that the latest live ratings show Magnus has fallen to 2867 and Caruana has risen to 2809.7 . The gap between the two is now only 57.3 points .
Caruana is a man on the up whereas Magnus looks to be slightly on the slide having lost over 20 pts since peaking at 2889.2 in April of this year. It may well be that in 6 months we may be looking at a new world number 1 .
Nope Carlsen will beat Caruana today. Caruana will go back to 2805 and Carlsen will be on 2871. Then Carlsen will win 3 more games in a row.
Caruana will be looking to draw with the black pieces today given the tournament situation..it should be a good game ; Magnus will certainly be throwing everything at Fabiano.