Any Chess Players?

[Tomas]

Chess24 is my favorite website to watch WC games - a big chess board,, Stockfish projections, chat feed, AND expert Youtube commentary featuring one of the funniest world superstars (Peter Svidler) - all integrated into one page:

https://chess24.com/en/watch/live-tourn ... 2018/1/1/3

[Tomas]

After the first 7 incredibly boring games, today's game No. 8 in the Carlsen-Caruana match is somewhat interesting.

Caruana actually spent LESS THAN ONE MINUTE total on his first 18 moves. Carlsen in the very attacking mode now. Live broadcast:

https://chess24.com/en/watch/live-tourn ... 2018/1/1/8

[count2infinity]

Seems like Caruana has had all the chances thus far, just hasn't been able to capitalize. If this is tied the whole way through, Magnus is the far superior blitz player, so you'd gotta think he'd be favored in the tie break.

[eddy]

my 9 year old beat me last night after a 40 minute match. It's been a lot of years since I played. It was a lot of fun!

[Tomas]

Caruana got himself to roughly +2 advantage in Stockfish ranking after 23 moves. Then he makes one bad move - and all of that advantage gone...

[count2infinity]

Yet another draw...

[Tomas]

Yet another draw...

I haven't played a competitive game of chess since the beginning of 1990s. I was never that much into it, and I don't even know what my ELO would have been when I was at the top of my game (1,800ies-1,900ies, maybe?). But even I saw the correct Caruana's 24th move.... And he was not under any time pressure (in fact, he had so much more time than Carlsen after the 20th move).

I think if Caruana loses the match, he will take Game 8 to his f^&*% grave! His f^&*% grave!

[count2infinity]

Yet another draw...

I haven't played a competitive game of chess since the beginning of 1990s. I was never that much into it, and I don't even know what my ELO would have been when I was at the top of my game (1,800ies-1,900ies, maybe?). But even I saw the correct Caruana's 24th move.... And he was not under any time pressure (in fact, he had so much more time than Carlsen after the 20th move).

I think if Caruana loses the match, he will take Game 8 to his f^&*% grave! His f^&*% grave!

What's the best move there? I would have probably played Nc4...

[Pavel Bure]

Yeah it’s to be expected in long form games with these guys. Once they go to blitz games things will change.

[count2infinity]

Blitz has really become an integral part of the game. I'm wondering now with it being the tiebreaker, how long it takes until it starts creeping its way into the main event. Maybe 10 games of classical, 6 games of blitz?

[count2infinity]

Naka's reaction to H3:

[Tomas]

Yet another draw...

I haven't played a competitive game of chess since the beginning of 1990s. I was never that much into it, and I don't even know what my ELO would have been when I was at the top of my game (1,800ies-1,900ies, maybe?). But even I saw the correct Caruana's 24th move.... And he was not under any time pressure (in fact, he had so much more time than Carlsen after the 20th move).

I think if Caruana loses the match, he will take Game 8 to his f^&*% grave! His f^&*% grave!

What's the best move there? I would have probably played Nc4...

According to chess24.com chat, this is probably the best free Stockfish engine:
http://analysis.sesse.net/
(better than the one chess24 uses during live broadcast)
If you click on the blue bars next to "Score", you will see the analysis after every move.

It took Caruana 35+ minutes to come up with the (correct) 20. c5, then he was making reasonably good (at least based on the engine) moves until move 23. For the 24th move, the engine (and pretty much everybody on chess24) thought Qh5 was the best move (leading to +1.95 position). Even Nc4 was not bad (+1.3). But h3 got immediately the score of 0.09!

[count2infinity]

Ha... I'm clearly superior to Caruana, then.

[crusherstasiak]

So much for Magnus playing these games out. I was expecting the Carlson from the Sinquefield Cup v. Nakamura. Then again he's by far the better rapid and blitz player so...
Can't help but think this analogous to playing passively with the lead in hockey

[Tomas]

Naka's reaction to H3:

BTW, for the last 4 games, Chess24 live broadcast will feature 3 top-10 players (Giri, Grischuk, Svidler), as Anish Giri will replace his wife on the broadcast team. I mostly watch the games on mute, but listening to Grischuk is awesome - a smoking, unkept weirdo who broadcasts via Skype from his apartment, while his small kid plays/cries in the background, but smart as hell, and his stories/observations lack any "filters."

[Pavel Bure]

Dude that won’t leave his house was just shouting at his crying kid live on stream. Good stuff here lol

[count2infinity]

Looking like *gasp* another draw...

[Tomas]

Dude that won’t leave his house was just shouting at his crying kid live on stream. Good stuff here lol

I did not see today's broadcast (had to take care of my own crying kids), but was it before or after Grischuk channeled his inner Charlie Murphy storytelling skills to come up with this gem describing Magnus Carlsen's basketball style?

https://twitter.com/chess24com/status/1 ... 77024?s=19

As I said before, Grischuk has no filter between his brain and mouth...

[Pavel Bure]

Dude that won’t leave his house was just shouting at his crying kid live on stream. Good stuff here lol

I did not see today's broadcast (had to take care of my own crying kids), but was it before or after Grischuk channeled his inner Charlie Murphy storytelling skills to come up with this gem describing Magnus Carlsen's basketball style?

https://twitter.com/chess24com/status/1 ... 77024?s=19

As I said before, Grischuk has no filter between his brain and mouth...

It was before the elbow in the balls story.

[Pavel Bure]

Fabi currently in a tough spot. Lots of room to make a mistake

[crusherstasiak]

Fabi currently in a tough spot. Lots of room to make a mistake

It's a two result game; draw or a win for Magnus.

[Gaucho]

Naka's reaction to H3:

[Pavel Bure]

Draw coming again. Still I’d say this was the most danger either player was in so far.

[Tomas]

http://analysis.sesse.net/ claims Caruana just made a huge blunder!!

[count2infinity]

Fabi is in trouble...