What are your thoughts on Magnus Carlsen's insane knight sacrifice from this game? Let me know in the comments section below! I will try to reply to all messages!
The plan with Qg5 seems to have been all along to place the knight on f6 Personally I would have thought that Nc2 would’ve been a good move after Qg5 but I didn’t realise the follow up threat of e5… The idea with Qg5 from the start I believe was to first exchange the bishop and then go e5 , dxe5 , dxe5 , ne8 then nh5+ and from there force an exchange of knights if Kg8 which would place the pawn on f6. I don’t know why the computer disliked the move because even with Qe7 in response to Qg5, white will execute the idea of placing his pawn on f6 after Bxg7 Kxg7 , e5 , ne8, Nh5+ kh8 and Nf6… Why was it not approved by the computer is a question I want answered … Great channel btw , good content and I’m just getting back to chess great to see some new content creators I don’t remember seeing you 4 - 5 years ago when I was first starting using RU-vid as a learning platform for chess
Why not f5 at 8:27? White doesn’t want go in for the following line where white knight is lost obviously: f5, Qf6+ , Qxf6, exf6, Kxf6 , Rf3+ , Kg7 The following line I’m not sure about: Qg4, f5 , f6+ (en passant) , Qxf6 . Rg3, Kf8, Nf3 , Bb7, Nd2 … Or what do you make of this variation? after g5 I’d you go Rg3 directly, then kf8 , Qg4 , échange sack Rxe4 , Rxe4, Nd5 , threatening f5 which would this forks the queen and rook, then you retreat the rook back to Re1 , black goes f5, exf6 and Nxf6 and the queen must retreat to d4
I actually found Bc6 as I was looking for tactics there but why is the precursor move Rxd4 necessary? I just imagined going Bc4+ directly works just fine ,
Yea it wasn't his best performance, really a crazy game with weird positions, it's understandable that his pattern recognition didn't kick in and he got lost in the ompliications
