This was a crazy game where both players were basicallyi at 95% favored multiple times and it kept going back and forth, here is where things went crazy: 5:08 Magnus sacrifices his knight for a discovered check to take f7. (magnus is down) 5:50 Magnus sacrifices his Rook now. (Magnus is down even more after a couple trades) 6:30 - 7:05 String of moves that lets Rapport take Magnus' Rook (Magnus is now down 2 rooks, all seeems lost) 7:43 4 moves after he lost his rook he is now winning the game. (All he needs to do next is play f3 to block Rapports queen from the middle of the board. If he does this there is a potential mate in 2.... Make a queen on f8, Rd8 takes Qf8, Qd5 for checkmate in 2 thanks to pawn at f3 blocking the queen. This can't be stopped and would guarentee win if he starts it) 7:45 Magnus doesn't see this and plays out of order instead of f3 first. He makes a queen first for the rook move and then moves his Queen to d7 hoping for a mate that way. (Stockfish drops Magnus's winning position to basically losing the game at this point) 7:52 - 9:16 Its time for Rapports crazy check race to prevent mate. He sacrifices his rook first and after 2 min gets magnus to trade queens leaving Rapport up a rook. The game is basically his now. It's over. 10:09 Rapports messes up his crazy lead by not realzing he needed to move his queen at g4 to e6, instead he goes nuts and starts trying to promote another pawn. 10:33 After going crazy and giving random checks at this point the game is now tied. Rapport has blown his insane lead and gave Magnus his opportunity for the win. 10:36 Rapport immediatly blunders a promotin since if he takes the queen he unpins the other and Magnus can mate. In a few more move Rapport ends up losing the game. What a crazy match
My heart was seriosuly bleeing for Rapport. His expressions at 10:36 conveyed such raw emotions, he looked so confused and perplexed, really just in total disbelief. I don't think I've ever felt this much tension watching a game, combined with the visible shaking on the World Champion's part, this really made for an outstanding game. I know I would not be able to sleep the night after knowing I had the chance to beat the World Champion in such a winning position, only to succumb to the pressure and end up losing the game. Chess is brutal.
Rapport thought that magnus was extending his hand to resign and he looked relieved, instead magnus reached for the queen and rapport looked confused then he realized in a split second he was actually losing. raw emotions indeed
Magnus knew he had to sacrifice against this closed french defense position. Magnus seems like he maintains his focus better than other players under pressure.
As a Norwegian life long fan of Magnus, I can’t help but admire Rapport for his style of chess, whether it be blitz or classical. The modern Tal of chess in terms of attacking play. Amazing game
His expression at 10:36 when he thinks Magnus is reaching for a handshake when in fact he is getting a Queen is heartbreaking for Rapport. You can a couple of seconds later he shakes his head and completely goes from ecstasy to depression.
@@timvanmonero2720 if he takes the queen on the 8th rank he gets checkmated , if he takes the queen on the 7th rank it gets taken back and he plays an end game with Rook vs queen which is losing, so he just resigned there as there was nothing left to do
Absolutely! Specials, How attacking starts 5:10, Magnus made Queen 7:45, pawn in A6 what is so powerful. I really think that its over when Rapport take bishop 7:50 and later checked G5. How about 8:48 if Magnus but the king somewhere else. Yes, insane game! Beautiful!
It is terrific to see such passion in these players, hearing the hall echo with hands striking clocks with such urgency as they battle for the lives of their kings, even Magnus hitting the clock harder and harder, the love for the sport is strong!
at the 10"20 minute of this video, Rapport should win this match if he had moved his Rock to C6 ! After white king to H7, after black queen to H4, white king to G8, black Rock to C8, white queen to F8, black queen to D8 and after that Rapport can eat the white queen and protect the 8th line and move his pawn to a new queen and win the match !
This could have been a masterpiece for the books, incredible calculation by Rapport after seizing the initiative with Rxf4! Just a shame at the end nerves got the best of him Black was completely winning, then Magnus had a chance but lost control and then Richard played 20 perfect moves before missing Rc6+ at 10:23 to win white's queen! Feels bad for him
It looks like Magnus had to really try very hard here, and apparently they played 11 blunders, blitz is fun to watch Edit: i also just love how magnus looked right into the camera and gave that look of "well that just happened" after they shool hands
@@gerhardstefanbilling5109 For the millionth time, you are not a chess genius that somehow managed to find something the judges and millions of people watching didn't see. Go read basic chess. It's an en passant move.
Anybody else think Magnus seems to be enjoying Chess more now that he's not having to do a World Champion title defense. Feels more energetic now iunno.
As he himself stated, he just wants to play Chess; he seems to hate the booming media coverage. The last World Championship, the media was literally up their throat, especially Nepo’s. It would be the same story again if he chose to defend. Plus, if he abandoned his title, he’d have to qualify in the Candidates again which is a very exciting circuit. How long has it even been since we’ve seen MC in the candidates? Maybe 12 years? Usually, he’s picking his nose while the others fight it out to see who challenges him. It’ll be a change of pace for him and above all, he can keep playing chess. Which is what matters to him. It also helps that his opponents have also gotten better.
@@toSirius There is no "luck" in chess. There are no dice rolls involved. It's 100% about calculating, remembering positions, and not doing blunders. Doing a blunder is not bad luck or good luck, it's a mistake and bad play, which happens a lot in blitz. This goes extra so whenever Carlsen is involved, since he loves going off-book to confuse opponents and force them into uncomfortable unknown positions, which is where he excels. Carlsen also were the first to use AlphaZero tactics regularly in big tournaments, despite not even having had time to study it, just trusting the strategy.
@@toSirius chess is brutal, he knew he was winning and he let the pressure get to him, when Magnus saw he blundered and made the queen he was visibly shaking too
This Magnus went on ULTIMATE Beast mode and DESTROYED Rapport in the cleanest fashion possible!! This game was ULTIMATELY INSANE!! Magnus should be the called, "The Ultimate Champion"!! Then Ultimate Warrior music starts playing and Magnus goes wild in the arena while the crowd goes bananas!!! Magnus should say, "This game was insane, I am..........ULLLLLLLLTIMAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAATE!!!!!!!"
Wow after following Magnus for 10 years insane I’ve never seen Magnus visibly shaken at 10:47 probably at the thought of losing the game even with two queens.
Any1 explain y at 10:39 Rapport didn't killed Queen After which he would had 1 Rook Left... Also at 10:37 why Magnus Didn't checkmated with his Queen on b7 Square
There is nothing special about en passant moves, they're used all the time. Literally a rule since 500 years ago because chess didn't work well without it, games just ended in draw since you can position pawns into an impenetrable wall without en passant. Your entire pawn positioning is based on avoiding or trying to get en passant.
can you explain to me, i'm still discovering new things in chess. Why the moves at 8:29 worked. Rapport plays his pawn G5 and then Magnus captures that pawn and now he is on G6. How has he captured that?
Well said. Carlsen just loves freaking out his opponents by going into unknown territories, and loves being in unknowns himself. Which is why he is giving up the title of classical chess, is bored and tired of it.
Magnus’s biggest blunder was not walking in circles around the empty tables after the match to test if the cameramen creepers could keep up without tripping.
10:38 The fact that he had to look for the queen and reach out for it when he has 4 seconds is a little unfair though, what if it was hidden behind other pieces and Magnus couldn't find it?
@@Atlas_Redux Players can promote their pawns to any piece they want. There's no reason to favor the queen over the others. The extra queen behind the clock at the start is not a replacement. It is there to ensure there are two of each piece available. Rooks, bishops and knights already exist in pair on the board. Even when all captured pieces are grouped together the queen is still the easiest to get since it is the tallest piece.
@@Atlas_Redux Which rulebook? I read FIDE laws of chess, FIDE handbook sections on equipment and tournament, and the rulebook for this specific tournament. There is absolutely nothing in those books about the second queen. So it has no official existence in the rulebook. Therefore no official name. The rulebook gives the material and size of the boards, pieces, tables and chairs, the initial position of the 32 pieces on the board, the position of the clock relative to the board, the distances between tables. It doesn't even say how many pieces of each type should be present in the set. So it seems the extra queen is just a habit (and a good one), not a rule. The promotion is never referred as a replacement. And all occurrences of the word replace and its variations are about defective material (mainly replacing broken clocks) or using electronic tools in place of their paper or mechanical equivalent (like clocks and scoresheets). It seems the FIDE makes great effort in all its official documents to never mix the words replacement and promotion. So it would be very strange that they would name "replacement queen" a queen that is placed on the table in preparation for a promotion.
@@christianbarnay2499 "... new queen, rook, bishop or knight of the same colour. The player’s choice is not restricted to pieces that have been captured previously, as the replacement queen positioned behind the clock is available from the beginning of the game. This exchange ...."
I swear Magnus is bored. He screws up the opening. Then deliberately puts his pieces in weird places. Then with a minute and a half on his clock verses one of the best players in the world he starts thinking how he’s going to get out of this mess he’s created. You can see the baffled look on Rapport’s face as he wonders wtf Magnus is up to.
Can someone explain what happens at 8:27 to me? Rapport moves his pawn to g5, then Carlson responds with pawn to g6, and that somehow takes Rapport's pawn? I'm a complete novice, so please forgive me!
@@thorboerasmussen8999 Careful with posting that link here. I had to post on the community forum to get my shadowban reversed yesterday after posting it a few times here.
@@thorboerasmussen8999 No. It's to prevent spam. Since so many people are asking the same question, the link has been posted a billion times, and RU-vid's antispam incorrectly thinks we're spambots.
@@jkkay477 I would agree, apparently from a previous comment, this move is called "en passant". I had no idea it was a thing, it just looks wrong. I'm certainly not an expert at chess, just a casual observer.
at the 10"20 minute of this video, Rapport should win this match if he had moved his Rock to C6 ! After white king to H7, after black queen to H4, white king to G8, black Rock to C8, white queen to F8, black queen to D8 and after that Rapport can eat the white queen and protect the 8th line and move his pawn to a new queen and win the match !
Chessbase India, you might want to pin a comment explaining to people that the 'En passant' move at 8:30 is legal. New players everywhere thinking they've spotted something that super grandmasters didn't notice. 😂
minute 10.24 what Rapport missed...a simple move RC6 check with loss of the white queen after Qf2+ and mate in four (21 secs left on the clock is enough for such a simple move)
At 8:30 I swear that isn’t a legal move… it’s been a min since I played chess. However don’t think pawns can take a piece that wasn’t 1 space diagonal in front of them… please educate me…😅
its called en passant, its a rule to stop the opponent from using the 2 square pawn move to close down the position without you being able to do anything.
Yea if rapport would’ve moved up his rook to put Magnus king in check, then that entire corner would’ve ended in 3 scenarios: 1. Draw from repetition of moves, although unlikely as rapport has enough time to think through moves and Magnus will barely have any 2. They trade all of their pieces (I checked the lines, and rapport could force a trade of the queens and pawn and his rook), which then would let rapport pawn on other side of board promote to queen and win 3. Magnus loses on time or makes 1 bad move and blunders his queen or puts his king in wrong square which will give rapport checkmate I get that maybe he was scared of moving his rook due to checkmate in 1 move from Magnus queen, but, I don’t see how he couldn’t see that he could force Trade all of the pieces. Should’ve used 10 more seconds to think through those lines
