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Originally Posted by DrChesspain
I'm thinking that Magnus saw no other way to try to break through?
This wasn't a way to break through either.
The king would just be walking from c1 to c2 and back (or the knight would be walking from f2 to h3 and back - Black's bishop can't attack both the c2 square and the g4 pawn, as f5 is taken away by that pawn). The f-pawns wouldn't promote without their king. And if Black moved the king to a4, he'd be no longer attacking the b2 pawn and White would move the king to d2 (into the square of the f3 pawn), threatening Nh3xf4. Sergey deviated from this simple defensive plan as, apparently, he was trying a find a win for himself too after Magnus decided to shift his king to the kingside.
Rather, I wonder why Magnus didn't just shake hands after the time control (move 60). There was no way to break the fortress.