Carlsen's miss does look like a big blunder. In such an obviously unsafe king position, any super-GM must switch on his mate searcher and go to a bigger depth than his normal search depth.
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Originally Posted by The Yugoslavian
I wasn't paying much attention this morning to the games (sick and tried to sleep in) but it looks like Carlsen got kind of smashed. I'd imagine that game is much more worrisome to him than missing the mate in the Giri game.
I'm not worrying about Magnus. He'll just make a note to self not to be that aggressive when the position is not calling for it. I mean his 22... d3?! (vs Rapport) making the d-pawn lose the c-pawn's support too early, then 26... Re8?! allowing the pawn fork on e5, likely with a full intention of a positional knight sac for 2 pawns that however failed spectacularly because of his back rank weakness that he had underestimated.
This aggression was probably a loss of patience and his way to reaffirm himself in his sharp attack ability after the confidence loss following the game with Giri, but going into a double-edged position vs none other than Rapport is too risky.
Last edited by coon74; 01-22-2017 at 02:45 PM.