Fabiano Caruana – Magnus Carlsen
GRENKE Chess Classic; Baden-Baden, February 8, 2015
Spanish C67
GRENKE Chess Classic; Baden-Baden, February 8, 2015
Spanish C67
1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 Nf6. “It’s no secret that Team Carlsen studied the Berlin quite a lot during the match in Sochi”, Grandmaster Jon Ludvig Nilssen Hammer said. 4. 0-0 Nxe4 5. d4 Nd6 6. Bxc6 dxc6 7. dxe5 Nf5 8. Qxd8+ Kxd8 9. h3 h6 10. Rd1+ Ke8 11. Nc3 Ne7 12. Bf4 Ng6 13. Bh2 Bb4 14. Ne2 Be7 15. Nfd4 Nf8. Carlsen’s prepared novelty. A previous course of play was 15. ... Bd7 16. Ng3
h5 17. Ngf5 Bf8 18. Re1 Ne7 19. e6 fxe6 20. Nxe7 Bxe7 21. Bxc7
Rc8 22. Ba5 Rh6 23. Rad1 c5 24. Nf3 Bf6 25. Bd2 Rh8 26. Ne5
Rd8 27. Bc3 Rh6 28. Rd6 Bc8 29. Rxd8+ Bxd8 30. Nc4 Rh7
31. Nd6+ Kd7 32. Nxc8 Kxc8 33. Rxe6 g5 34. Kf1 Kd7 35. Rg6 Rf7
36. Bd2 Rf5 37. c4 h4 38. Bc3 Bc7 39. Rf6 Rxf6 40. Bxf6 Bf4
41. Ke2 Ke6 42. Bd8 Ke5 43. Kf3 Kd4 44. Kg4 Kxc4 45. Bxg5 Be5
46. b3+ Kd3 47. Be7 Bd4 48. f4 Ke4 49. f5 1 : 0 Volokitin – Miroshnichenko, Ukrainian Championship, Kiev 2011. 16. g4 h5 17. Nf5. With the deadly threat of Nf5xg7 mate. But despite that “Magnus will not lose today, and I can’t rule out that he will win”, Hammer said. 17. ... Ne6 18. Kg2 b6 19. f3 c5. “I am very optimistic on Magnus’ behalf now. This is why Berlin is such a genius opening”, Hammer said on TV 2. 20. Bg3
Bg5 21. h4
21. ... hxg4. A brilliant resource leading to a draw. 22. hxg5 gxf3+ 23. Kxf3 Nxg5+ 24. Kf4. 24. Kg4 would be met even more effectively by 24. ... Nh3, e.g. 25. e6 Bxe6 26. Nf4 g6 27. Nxe6 gxf5+ 28. Kxf5 fxe6+ 29. Kg4 e5! (the pointe) 30. Rd5 (both 30. Bxe5 Nf2+ and 30. Re1 Kd7! are in favour of Black) 30. ... Ke7 with an edge for Black (Ramírez Álvarez’s analysis). 24. ... Nh3+ 25. Ke4 Ng5+ 26.
Kf4 Nh3+ ½ : ½.
Fabiano Caruana vs. Magnus Carlsen
Photo: GRENKE Chess Classic Baden-Baden
Photo: GRENKE Chess Classic Baden-Baden
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