Firouzja slays Carlsen's Dragon in 18 moves 

Featured is an instructive bullet chess game between Alireza Firouzja and Magnus Carlsen from the 2023 Bullet Chess Championship. Carlsen chooses the Dragon variation of the Sicilian Defense, and parries Firouzja's attempt of a dark-squared bishop exchange with 8...h5. One way to view Firouzja's decision to castle kingside is that it made h5 less meaningful. Watch as Firouzja, with pawn play alone, provokes a couple of weaknesses on Carlsen's queenside. The result was a rare and aesthetic 18-move defeat of Carlsen where Firouzja registered an accuracy of 99%.
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Image of Magnus Carlsen by Lennart Ootes
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