[Event "FIDE World Championship 2016"] [Site "New York"] [Date "2016.11.24"] [Round "10"] [White "Carlsen, Magnus"] [Black "Karjakin, Sergey"] [Result "1-0"] [ECO "C65"] [WhiteElo "2853"] [BlackElo "2772"] [Annotator "Llewellyn,Alan"] [PlyCount "149"] [EventDate "2016.??.??"] [EventCountry "USA"] {It all looked curtains for Magnus early on in this game as Sergey creates a fearsome attack, but at the key move 21, Sergey retreats and he ends up retreating for the rest of the match, and Magnus gets a deserved victory atlast. 21 Nxf2+ may not have been enough to win for Sergey but it would have been last chance saloon stuff (for Magnus) if Sergey had played it and thus got a draw here. As it is both sides are unlikely to risk anything more in the last two games so it looks likely barring fate that a rapidplay tie-break and then if necesary, a blitz match series will occur to determine the winner. The rules for this are as follows in the rapidplay tie-break 4 games will be played of 25 minutes plus 10 seconds increment, if still even after that a Blitz rapidplay of a series of 5 x 2 game matches will be played of 5 minutes and 3 second increment if no winner after each 2 games is played occurs then a sudden death game will decide matters with white having 5 minutes and black 4 and 3 second increment after move 60. A draw in the sudden death game will mean victory for black. The colours (of who starts as white) will be decided by lots before the start of each section.} 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 Nf6 4. d3 {this is the modern way to handle the Berlin defence.} Bc5 5. c3 O-O 6. Bg5 h6 7. Bh4 Be7 8. O-O d6 9. Nbd2 Nh5 10. Bxe7 $146 {a novelty-note i do not think much of Blacks play playing initially the dark squared Bishop to c5 then back again to e7.} (10. Bg3 {played by a strong grandmaster fedorchuk a few times once in 2010 another in 2011.}) 10... Qxe7 11. Nc4 Nf4 (11... f5 12. Bxc6 bxc6 13. Nfxe5 dxe5 14. Qxh5 $16) (11... Kh8 12. Nfxe5 $4 Nxe5 $3 13. Qxh5 Bg4 $3 $19) 12. Ne3 Qf6 13. g3 $3 (13. Nd5 $2 Nxd5 (13... Qg6 14. Bxc6 $4 {in order to seemingly win the Queen by Ne7+ next move but it is deeply flawed.} Qxg2#) 14. exd5 Ne7 15. d4 $1 (15. c4 Ng6 16. Nd2 Nf4 17. Ne4 Qg6 18. g3 $17) 15... exd4 16. Qxd4 Qxd4 17. Nxd4 Nxd5 18. Rad1 $17) 13... Nh3+ $5 14. Kh1 Ne7 $1 { bringing the other Knight into the attack...} (14... h5 $6 {trying to get in Bg4 pinning the Knight nd thus winning it as Kg2 is answered by Ng5, but the Bishop can be swapped of by the Knight on e3 if it gets to the g4 square and in some lines maybe Nxf2+ is threatened.} 15. Nd5 Qd8 16. d4 $14) 15. Bc4 c6 16. Bb3 Ng6 17. Qe2 (17. Kg2 $11) 17... a5 (17... h5 $6 18. Nd2 Ngf4 $4 19. gxf4 exf4 20. Nec4 Bg4 21. f3 Bd7 $18) 18. a4 Be6 $6 19. Bxe6 $3 fxe6 20. Nd2 $3 (20. Kg2 $4 {would have been unfortunate...because the Knight sacrifice on f4 wins the Queen on e2.} Ngf4+ 21. gxf4 Nxf4+ 22. Kh1 Nxe2 $19) 20... d5 $2 ( 20... Nxf2+ $3 21. Kg2 Nh4+ 22. Kg1 (22. gxh4 $2 Qg6+ 23. Ng4 Nxg4 24. Kh1 $17) 22... Nh3+ 23. Kh1 Nf2+ $11 {Black has nothing better than the draw by repeating the position here.}) 21. Qh5 $3 Ng5 $2 {obviously charge of the Light Brigade is a British thing not a Russian thing as Sergey starts a retreat which lasts 54 more moves.} (21... Nxf2+ 22. Kg2 Qf7 23. Qe2 Nh4+ 24. Kg1 Nh3+ 25. Kh1 Nf2+ $11 {and its the same position virtually as before except the Black Queen is on f7 not f6 and this makes little difference.}) 22. h4 $1 Nf3 23. Nxf3 Qxf3+ 24. Qxf3 Rxf3 25. Kg2 Rf7 26. Rfe1 (26. h5 Nf8 27. Ng4 Nd7 $14) 26... h5 27. Nf1 Kf8 28. Nd2 Ke7 29. Re2 Kd6 30. Nf3 Raf8 31. Ng5 Re7 {Magnus' advantage is basically the fact that Sergey has two pawns on the same file (ie the e-file). This really hampers Blacks co-ordination and freedom of his pieces and also provides targets for Magnus to aim his rooks at.} 32. Rae1 Rfe8 33. Nf3 Nh8 34. d4 exd4 35. Nxd4 $3 g6 36. Re3 Nf7 37. e5+ $3 Kd7 38. Rf3 Nh6 39. Rf6 Rg7 40. b4 axb4 41. cxb4 $1 (41. Rb1 $2 c5 $1 $15 ({and not} 41... bxc3 $4 42. Rxb7+ Kc8 43. Rxg7 $18)) 41... Ng8 42. Rf3 $14 (42. Nf3 $2 Nxf6 43. exf6 Rh7 44. f7 Rxf7 45. Ne5+ Ke7 46. Nxf7 Kxf7 $17) (42. Rf4 $14) 42... Nh6 43. a5 Nf5 44. Nb3 Kc7 45. Nc5 Kb8 (45... b6 46. Na4 bxa5 47. bxa5 Ra8 $2 48. Nc5 Rxa5 $4 49. Nxe6+ Kd7 50. Nxg7 Nxg7 $18) 46. Rb1 Ka7 47. Rd3 Rc7 48. Ra3 Nd4 49. Rd1 Nf5 50. Kh3 Nh6 51. f3 Rf7 52. Rd4 Nf5 53. Rd2 Rh7 54. Rb3 (54. g4 $4 hxg4+ 55. fxg4 Rxh4+ 56. Kg2 Rxg4+ $19) 54... Ree7 55. Rdd3 Rh8 56. Rb1 Rhh7 $4 {in time trouble Sergey misses a nuance in the position which is easy not to spot. This is that the Rook defends better by attacking the Knight on c5 from the c8 square not c7, you see Black wants to play R(h) to the c-file but on the 7th rank he cannot play Rc7 and still defend e6.} (56... Nh6 $3 57. b5 cxb5 58. Rxb5 Rc8 59. Rdb3 Nf5 60. Rxb7+ Rxb7 61. Rxb7+ Ka8 62. Rb5 Nd4 63. Rb4 Rxc5 64. Rxd4 Rxa5 $11) 57. b5 $3 cxb5 58. Rxb5 d4 59. Rb6 Rc7 60. Nxe6 Rc3 61. Nf4 (61. Rb3 Re7 62. Nxd4 Rxd3 63. Rxd3 Rd7 $4 (63... Nxd4 64. Rxd4 Rxe5 65. Rd6 Rxa5 66. Rxg6 $18 {with a clearly won endgame for Magnus...}) 64. Nc6+ bxc6 65. Rxd7+ $18) 61... Rhc7 62. Nd5 $6 $18 {Magnus was avoiding complications in time trouble which he manages to recover from as with best play it is still won for Magnus.} (62. Rxg6 Rxd3 63. Nxd3 Rc3 64. Rf6 Ne3 65. Nf4 d3 66. Rd6 Nc4 67. Rxd3 Rxd3 68. Nxd3 $18) 62... Rxd3 63. Nxc7 Kb8 64. Nb5 Kc8 65. Rxg6 Rxf3 66. Kg2 Rb3 67. Nd6+ Nxd6 68. Rxd6 Re3 69. e6 Kc7 70. Rxd4 Rxe6 71. Rd5 Rh6 { most of Sergeys moves have been forced and lead to an exciting finale for the match.} 72. Kf3 Kb8 (72... b6 $3 {Sergey needed to only defend one side of the board so swapping off pawns was his only hope.} 73. axb6+ Kxb6 74. Kf4 Kc6 75. Ra5 Kd7 76. Ra7+ Ke8 77. Kg5 Rb6 78. Kxh5 Rb5+ 79. Kh6 Rb6+ 80. Kh7 Rb4 81. h5 Rb6 82. g4 Kf8 83. g5 Rb5 84. Rg7 Re5 85. h6 Re7 (85... Ra5 86. g6 Ra6 87. Rg8+ Ke7 88. g7 Kf7 89. Rf8+ Ke7 90. g8=Q $18) 86. Rxe7 Kxe7 87. g6 Ke8 88. g7 Kf7 89. g8=Q+ $18) 73. Kf4 Ka7 74. Kg5 Rh8 75. Kf6 {Black is about to go two pawns down, and Magnus even so excited and tense wasn't going to make a mistake in such circumstances. So its 5pts - 5 pts with two games to go.} 1-0