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Re: 2018 World Championship in London

Posted: Thu Nov 22, 2018 10:01 pm
by Matt Mackenzie
Nick Ivell wrote:
Thu Nov 22, 2018 8:16 pm
Magnus making a mess of the ending. Not on top form in this match. May still pull things round, but some decline or complacency seems apparent.
I hardly think its complacency, he admitted before the match he wasn't as sharp as a few years ago.

He is still getting good prospects in some games, but isn't capitalising on them almost unerringly as he used to.

Re: 2018 World Championship in London

Posted: Thu Nov 22, 2018 10:09 pm
by David Robertson
Question

Has there ever been a younger pair of WCC contestants? (28 & 26 here)

Re: 2018 World Championship in London

Posted: Thu Nov 22, 2018 10:15 pm
by MartinCarpenter
Matt Mackenzie wrote:
Thu Nov 22, 2018 10:01 pm
Nick Ivell wrote:
Thu Nov 22, 2018 8:16 pm
Magnus making a mess of the ending. Not on top form in this match. May still pull things round, but some decline or complacency seems apparent.
I hardly think its complacency, he admitted before the match he wasn't as sharp as a few years ago.

He is still getting good prospects in some games, but isn't capitalising on them almost unerringly as he used to.
Isn't that essentially what defines form? He's (no surprise!) still playing very good moves most of the time but the thing that goes when out of form is the knack of converting the chances you get.

He's generated enough chances that in normal/good form he'd have wrapped this match up by now.

Re: 2018 World Championship in London

Posted: Thu Nov 22, 2018 10:16 pm
by IM Jack Rudd
David Robertson wrote:
Thu Nov 22, 2018 10:09 pm
Question

Has there ever been a younger pair of WCC contestants? (28 & 26 here)
Carlsen-Karjakin, I think, is the record holder (both 26 when they contested the 2016 match).

Re: 2018 World Championship in London

Posted: Thu Nov 22, 2018 10:25 pm
by David Robertson
IM Jack Rudd wrote:
Thu Nov 22, 2018 10:16 pm
Carlsen-Karjakin, I think, is the record holder (both 26 when they contested the 2016 match)
Good grief! I just ploughed back a century through my memory vaults - and forgot the last match! :roll:

Re: 2018 World Championship in London

Posted: Thu Nov 22, 2018 10:35 pm
by NickFaulks
Nick Ivell wrote:
Thu Nov 22, 2018 8:16 pm
Magnus making a mess of the ending.
I don't understand this comment. Carlsen was on the back foot and found an efficient way to draw,

Re: 2018 World Championship in London

Posted: Fri Nov 23, 2018 8:28 am
by Matthew Turner
Surely, Magnus is playing the best player that he has played in a World Championship match and finding it the most difficult. Why is that a surprise? I thought it was a 50/50 match at the start and nothing seems to have changed.

Re: 2018 World Championship in London

Posted: Fri Nov 23, 2018 8:53 am
by Chris Rice
Video impressions from inside the venue courtesy of Chess.com

Re: 2018 World Championship in London

Posted: Sat Nov 24, 2018 3:08 pm
by Mick Norris
Game 11 - Petroff :D

Re: 2018 World Championship in London

Posted: Sat Nov 24, 2018 3:13 pm
by JustinHorton
Knight to d7 rather than c6 as at St Louis

Re: 2018 World Championship in London

Posted: Sat Nov 24, 2018 4:22 pm
by Christopher Kreuzer
Pretty short game today. Unlikely to go much further.
If it is agreed drawn soon, is that the shortest game of the match?

Re: 2018 World Championship in London

Posted: Sat Nov 24, 2018 4:27 pm
by Barry Sandercock
Maybe Magnus will try to win tomorrow ?

Re: 2018 World Championship in London

Posted: Sat Nov 24, 2018 4:40 pm
by NickFaulks
Maybe Caruana has been saving his big TN for tomorrow.

Re: 2018 World Championship in London

Posted: Sat Nov 24, 2018 4:42 pm
by Joshua Gibbs
Christopher Kreuzer wrote:
Sat Nov 24, 2018 4:22 pm
Pretty short game today. Unlikely to go much further.
If it is agreed drawn soon, is that the shortest game of the match?
games four and five were both 34 moves

Re: 2018 World Championship in London

Posted: Sat Nov 24, 2018 4:50 pm
by Barry Sandercock
Magnus is a pawn up, but is that any good in an opposite colour \bishop ending ?