Tata Steel chess:What was Carlsen drinking?? Round 7

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What was Carlsen drinking??

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What are you talking about?
He's just drinking his regular orange juice.

Isn't Carlsen completely winning against Giri? The computer says White only has an edge of about 0.3 but to my eyes it must be an easy win.

Doesn't a rook, a bishop, and two connected passed pawns beat a lone queen?
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100 moves now and Magnus is still thinking about pushing one of his pawns a square forward.
He's never in a rush.
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Epic game!

Will Giri resign somewhere in the 200s?

White has to win this, come on.
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its drawn man

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solomonwu wrote:

What was Carlsen drinking??

 

I really want to know. Magnus is drinking a black liquid.

I think it is grape juice.

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I wish there were live commentary on this game that I could see.
Where's Seirawan when you need him?
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Giri looks bust to me. Cannot get his queen anywhere near a perpetual check and his king is forced to sulk in the corner. Magnus I think is going to lead the tournament.

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I guess the only way to win is to advance the h and g pawns, but that involves weakening black's king and the 2 pawns so the computer probably found a way to get a perpetual or something, although I trust magnus more than this computer

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Magnus pushed a pawn on move 108 FTW!!
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Magnus is drinking black coffee.

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I am here:
http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chesslive

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Draw!

Crap

Bishop and pawn versus lone king and still no win.

How do you beat Giri??
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Do I see a bishop of a different colour to the queening square ?

 

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But going a little off topic, I really hate that there is an engine there and you cannot even get rid of it besides covering part of the screen with a piece of paper. I just want to assess the position myself, try to find the best move myself and watch the game by myself, not with this stupid thermometer-like thing going up and down every few seconds depending on how far the engine has calculated and then for some engine junkie to mindlessly blurt out the computer's assessment in the chatting area. And now they've even made Peter and Jan's great commentary membership only? It doesn't even make much sense because they upload it to YouTube a bit after the stream ends.

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And as usual, Wesley So maintains clear first place.
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urk wrote:
Draw!

Crap

Bishop and pawn versus lone king and still no win.

How do you beat Giri??

Beat me to it. Your post was not there when I did mine honest.
GM Giri draws more than half his games.

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OMG

 

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And Carlsen lost in round 8.

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That flushing sound you hear is Magnus's chances of overtaking Wesley So in this tournament.