New post added at News Channel 365 - World Chess Champ Magnus Carlsen Lost An Amazing GameSource: businessinsider - Tuesday, January 13, 2015Norway's 24-year-old chess phenom, Magnus Carlsen, successfully defended his World Chess Championship late last year in Sochi, Russia, once again defeating 44-year-old Viswanathan Anand of India. But that doesn't mean Carlsen is unbeatable, as we just learned. On Monday at a big and very important tournament, the Tata Steel in Wijk aan Zee in the Netherlands, Carlsen went down to the Polish number one, Radoslaw Wojtaszek. Wojtaszek is 28, a Grandmaster, but rated 2744, more than 100 points lower than Carlsen, 2862 (who has the highest rating of all time). Interestingly, however, Wojtaszek was one of Anand's "seconds" for the World Championship — effectively, a sparring partner and assistant to the challenger. Of course, this means that at the moment, Wojtaszek knows Carlsen's game as well as anyone on Earth. On Monday, it showed. At the WCC, Carlsen indicated that in dynamic positions, he can leave open the prospect for tactics — combinations of moves that are the heart and soul of attacking, "fighting" chess, but that in the modern game occur less frequently than in the past, due to players' ability to train with computers and avoid complications. In their game, the third of 13 scheduled, Wojtaszek was playing white and created a beautiful tactic on move 40. As you can see from the diagram below, Carlsen, as black, is on the attack with his pieces converging on Wojtaszek's king. But earlier Wojtaszek had captured a bishop for All Related
Posted on: Thu, 15 Jan 2015 09:56:41 +0000
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