Magnus won Round 1 in great style !
Round 1 featured Magnus - Morozevich, Topalov - Anand, Ivantchuk –Leko and Svidler – Aronian.Again Magnus faced the KID and he chose the closed variation with g3, Lg2. Amazingly he found a promising piece sacrifice already on move 13, Nxd6. After advancing his queen pawn he got the piece back on move 18 with a pawn up. Black had some initiative and it looked drawish as Anand – Topalov and Svidler – Aronian took their draw.
On move 40 Morozevich chose to sacrifize another pawn to reach a probably theoretical ending with 2+3 pawn against 1+2 and opposite colored bishops.
A little earlier Ivantchuk had sacked a piece offer Leko. He had spent all his time looking for a win and had to settle for a repetition of moves on move 28 with few seconds left on the clock.
Morozevich should maybe have advanced his g-pawn in the endgame, anyhow after Magnus played g5 and switched his king to the queen side, the two-pawn race on each side was in favour of Magnus. 1-0 and Magnus has taken the lead ! What a great start, especially after his somewhat lacklustre Corus tournament last month.
After the game Magnus was facing a crowd of spectators wanting his autograph. He wrote some for 5-10 minutes and was taken out the backdoor. I hope the spectators understand that he needs to rest and eat now after a long game.
He’s currently having diner in his room, relaxing and has starting to think about round 2 against Aronian.
Thanks a lot to those of you who have commented and given positive feedback to this blog!
Henrik Carlsen, Morelia, February 17th 2007
On move 40 Morozevich chose to sacrifize another pawn to reach a probably theoretical ending with 2+3 pawn against 1+2 and opposite colored bishops.
A little earlier Ivantchuk had sacked a piece offer Leko. He had spent all his time looking for a win and had to settle for a repetition of moves on move 28 with few seconds left on the clock.
Morozevich should maybe have advanced his g-pawn in the endgame, anyhow after Magnus played g5 and switched his king to the queen side, the two-pawn race on each side was in favour of Magnus. 1-0 and Magnus has taken the lead ! What a great start, especially after his somewhat lacklustre Corus tournament last month.
After the game Magnus was facing a crowd of spectators wanting his autograph. He wrote some for 5-10 minutes and was taken out the backdoor. I hope the spectators understand that he needs to rest and eat now after a long game.
He’s currently having diner in his room, relaxing and has starting to think about round 2 against Aronian.
Thanks a lot to those of you who have commented and given positive feedback to this blog!
Henrik Carlsen, Morelia, February 17th 2007
Comments:
Posted by: Rune
Great start! Congratulations!
Posted by: Kjell Arne Lilleløkken
Congratulations!! We all hope Magnus will go through this tournament and shoving his best shape ever!
Posted by: Per Andreasen
Hi Henrik.
Super with a win to Magnus, what a great start.
Very nice blog, - I really enjoy reading it ;-)
Best regards to you and Magnus,
Per Andreasen, Mitrovica.
Super with a win to Magnus, what a great start.
Very nice blog, - I really enjoy reading it ;-)
Best regards to you and Magnus,
Per Andreasen, Mitrovica.
Posted by: Per-Johan
Grattis och hälsningar från Sverige!
Jag är en amatörspelare från Gävle som följt Magnus sedan Corus 2004, och det finns alltid nå´t att lära av hans partier. Tack för underhållningen, och för denna nya informationskanal om hans förehavanden. Särskilt kul är det att höra hur han förbereder sig, och om psykologin bakom partierna.
mvh
/Per-Johan
Jag är en amatörspelare från Gävle som följt Magnus sedan Corus 2004, och det finns alltid nå´t att lära av hans partier. Tack för underhållningen, och för denna nya informationskanal om hans förehavanden. Särskilt kul är det att höra hur han förbereder sig, och om psykologin bakom partierna.
mvh
/Per-Johan
Posted by: Anonymous
Congrats Magnus!
Posted by: Anonymous
Congrats Magnus!
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Excellent blog Henrick. Very informative and interesting, and written in very good English as well!
Congratulations to Magnus for a brilliant win yesterday. Good luck for the rest of the tournament.
Congratulations to Magnus for a brilliant win yesterday. Good luck for the rest of the tournament.
Posted by: Lars Olausen
Magnus og Henrik!
Det var en utrolig spennende natt for å følge Magnus og Moro. Og moro ble det, det sto Magnus for. Det ble sent, men hva gjør vel det. Lykke til videre, Magnus.
Og til Henrik:
Takk for en flott blogg.
Det var en utrolig spennende natt for å følge Magnus og Moro. Og moro ble det, det sto Magnus for. Det ble sent, men hva gjør vel det. Lykke til videre, Magnus.
Og til Henrik:
Takk for en flott blogg.
Posted by: Vidar
Magnus har havnet på Youtube
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cffEotcl3V4
Kramnik - Magnus analyserer . Fra Corus 2007
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cffEotcl3V4
Kramnik - Magnus analyserer . Fra Corus 2007
Posted by: Alf Marius
En etterlengtet seier vi alle gleder oss over!
Gratulere og lykke til videre :)
Gratulere og lykke til videre :)
Posted by: Phil Harris
Great game, a hard won and well deserved point.
Good luck for the rest of the games, and I hope you have time to enjoy the sensation of leading a field like that!
Excellent blog by the way, I will visit often.
Good luck for the rest of the games, and I hope you have time to enjoy the sensation of leading a field like that!
Excellent blog by the way, I will visit often.
Posted by: Kampfgeist
Congratulations to Magnus for the win yesterday, hope he does well also today.
btw nice blog.
btw nice blog.
Posted by: Sanjana
Very nice win by young Magnus, come on boy!! show us your best games is still yet to come!! hope the rest of the chess year is as sucessful :)
Posted by: Chris
Mycket intressant blogg. Jag ser fram emot fler poäng för Magnus i turneringen.
Posted by: GMBartosz Socko
Excelent Carlsen, this guy is probably going to be the wordl champion in a few years, good luck and congratulations again
Posted by: Trond
Congratulations with the victory and being the new number 1 chess-site in Norway! Nothing can be more interesting then reading inside information about Magnus Carlsen! So continue this excellent blog, Henrik! This will be a strong contribution promoting the norwegian superstar Magnus and norwegian chess abroad!
Posted by: Ron
Great game by MagMan!
Posted by: Rolfo
Thanks for frank and to the point comments. This add a new dimension for all of us following the play of Magnus..
Posted by: sfinx
gratulerer så mye magnus & co. Dette har vi lengtet etter......
Tror nok at ting løsner for magnus nå, etter to små nedturer?!?
magnus vil nok stå formye norske gleder i denne turneringen skal vi se.......
Tror nok at ting løsner for magnus nå, etter to små nedturer?!?
magnus vil nok stå formye norske gleder i denne turneringen skal vi se.......
Posted by: Jimmy
Nice game. Everyone on ICC always cheers for Magnus. More people watch Magnus' games then any other games on ICC.
Having this blog is wonderful. We now get to find out what you were thinking. Yes the move Qh3 was a funny move to find. But everyone is very happy with Magnus' play.
I expect to watch all of Magnus' games. It is the highlight of my day. Good luck with your game today. Anand is a good gentleman and fine sportsman. I know you will enjoy playing with him. I certainly will enjoy watching the game.
Having this blog is wonderful. We now get to find out what you were thinking. Yes the move Qh3 was a funny move to find. But everyone is very happy with Magnus' play.
I expect to watch all of Magnus' games. It is the highlight of my day. Good luck with your game today. Anand is a good gentleman and fine sportsman. I know you will enjoy playing with him. I certainly will enjoy watching the game.
Posted by: Jesper Nørgaard Welen
What a spectacular sacrifice Nxd6 was! I wonder how Fritz would have defended - was allowing Nxc5-d6-d7 really forced? But two thumbs up for Magnus' great fighting spirit.
I played myself in the lower group of Morelia (living 300 km away from Morelia) and I was around to see a few moves late in the evening (after my game). A pity I couldn't meet neither Magnus nor Henrik, had I known about this blog I would perhaps have been able to contact you. Good luck in the rest of the tournament, it has been a clear proof that Magnus belongs above 2700+ now.
Incidentally I got twins in december 2005 (Majken and Magnus!) so one was named after the "prodigy kid" by my 15-year old son because I was cheering so often about Magnus in the FIDE WC.
I played myself in the lower group of Morelia (living 300 km away from Morelia) and I was around to see a few moves late in the evening (after my game). A pity I couldn't meet neither Magnus nor Henrik, had I known about this blog I would perhaps have been able to contact you. Good luck in the rest of the tournament, it has been a clear proof that Magnus belongs above 2700+ now.
Incidentally I got twins in december 2005 (Majken and Magnus!) so one was named after the "prodigy kid" by my 15-year old son because I was cheering so often about Magnus in the FIDE WC.
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