Tuesday, June 23, 2020

Magnus wins brilliancy game ( Zugwang masterpiece) against Dubov with Black: Chessable tournament Group A : June 22, 2020

Great positional game ( Zugwang Domination) by Magnus Carlsen with Black against Daniil Dubov.


Yasser Seirawan and Peter Svidler commented the game live on chess24.com
You can see Dubov on the left and Carlsen on the right  at the start of the game
PGN Here:

1. d4 Nf6 2. Nf3 d5 3.c4 c6 4. Nc3 e6 5. g3 Nbd7 6. Bg2 Be7 7. O-O O-O 8. b3 b6 9. Re1 Ba6 10. Nd2 Rc8 11. Bb2 c5 12. dxc5 Nxc5 13. b4 Nce4 14. Ncxe4 dxe4 15. b5 Bb7 16. e3 Bb4
17. Re2 Qd3 18. Rb1 Bc3 19. Ba3 Rfd8 20. Rb3 Qxc4 21. Qe1 Qd5 22. Bb4 Qxb3 23.axb3 Bxb4 24. Bf1 a5 25. Qd1 h6 0-1


Full game with replay and annotations below :


Brilliant positional game by Carlsen who squeezed Dubov and crowned its plan with a queen sacrifice on move 20, and won in 25 moves with Black. he must have been happy after losing 3 games to Dubov in recent online tournaments



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