NEW DELHI : Indian chess Grandmaster Viswanathan Anand Tuesday defeated World Champion Magnus Carlsen in 34 moves in the third game of their world title match held in Russia, in the process breaking the "Carlsen jinx" bugging him since losing the world title to Carlsen last year.
Grandmaster Nigel "I said at the start of the game, 'contrary to popular belief, the match is not over'. However, for some Indian trolls,"
Indian ace Anand started confidently and the moves progressed as per the book with the champion castling on the King side.
While Anand was pushing out his pawns to pave the way for his pieces, Carlsen brought out his queen side knight.
Anand started pushing his c-pawn and his other pawns on the queen side and Carlsen similarly responded.
A flurry of activity began on move 11 with Anand traded his white bishop for Carlsen's white bishop. Anand gave up his b-pawn in order to advance his c file pawn to the seventh rank.
Anand's 17th move of putting his knight on the g5 square aiming for a play centered around his pawn on the seventh rank.
This made Carlsen to go into deep thought for a whopping 32 minutes to make his move.
Grandmaster Anish Giri "Interesting, the axiom that Magnus has an unearthly memory is being challenged right now."
Grandmaster P.Harikrishna "It is unclear why Carlsen took so long. Seems he was figuring out the way to take Anand out of theory/home preparation."
Indian Grandmaster Vidit Gujarathi that the board position was reached in Aronian-Adams but Harikrishna said the Aronian-Adams, though ended in a draw, was not an easy one.
"The position is actually good for Anand as Carlsen's queen is not in active play and there is not much of an active coordination among his pieces,".
Were of the view that the game was on razor edge and a mistake by any one of the player would be disastrous.
Soon the other two knights got exchanged and Anand's queen got into active play, a luxury that was not available for Carlsen.
In move 32, Carlsen gave up his rook for Anand's black bishop and facing further loss of a piece, resigned.
I don't think there was a change in strategy for Anand. The strategy has always been fine, just today it finally worked out well. Anand got very lucky that Carlsen was completely unaware of this relatively well known variation.
"If Carlsen had been better prepared, the game should have been ended in a draw, but then again that's the weakness of Carlsen so there are no "ifs". I am very glad that Anand came back, now we will have a real fight!".
The game once again proves that Anand plays well in complicated situation which is not Carlsen's forte. more >>
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