![]() ![]() From this move onwards, White has all the winning chances. After White wins the a-pawn, Black may only hope for a draw. Qa3+! White forks the a7-pawn and Black’s king. What did White (Carlsen) play here? The answer is 22. In Game 8, White found a tactic to win a pawn after Black played 21…b5? In Game 6, White had the long-term strategy of advancing his passed pawns. White advanced his pawns and won on move 136. In contrast, White may either draw or win. Black wants to draw, probably by perpetual check. In the diagrammed position, Black is hoping for one result. Here is the position after White’s 82 nd move. White will try to promote his passed pawns on the e-file and f-file. Game 6įor the last 50+ moves of the longest game in World Chess Championship history, Carlsen, as White, had a clear plan. ![]() Carlsen won the endgame in Game 6 strategically and used a tactic to get a winning advantage in Game 8. In both Game 6 and Game 8, Carlsen was playing for two results. The third result, a loss, is not likely to happen to that player. The expression “playing for two results” means that one player may win or draw. Photo: FIDE / Eric Rosen Playing for Two Results Magnus Carlsen vs Ian Nepomniachtchi, FIDE World Chess Championship, Dubai, 2021 As of the December 6 free day, the score is 5–3 in favor of the Champion. Thus far, Carlsen’s two wins were in Game 6, on December 3, and Game 8, on December 5. There are six games and two free days remaining in the 14-game match. Nonetheless, White won.In the 2021 World Chess Championship, Champion Magnus Carlsen has a lead of two wins over Challenger Ian Nepomniachtchi going into the third free day. Later annotations by IM Elliott Winslow, who incorporated computer analysis, also found holes in White’s aggressive ideas. Bxh7+, which was unsound, according to Paul and Kostya. Those two players joined Paul and his co-host for the evening, IM Kostya Kavutskiy, for a post-mortem (a practice described in a previous SparkChess article).Ī former master and current expert, Walder played a thematic sacrifice, 13. I recommend that you watch, at 1:42, analysis of the game Michael Walder versus Cailen Melville. There are various “Tuesday Night Marathons” throughout the year the January-to-February one is named after former Mechanics’ Institute Chess Club Director Max Wilkerson. Alongside special guests and the Mechanics’ Institute Chess Club staff, Paul analyzes chess club members’ games. On the Tuesday Night Marathon broadcast, Paul wears a jacket, though presumably not the same one that he loaned me in 1982. ![]() Another famous San Francisco line is attributed to Mark Twain: “ The coldest winter I ever saw was the summer I spent in San Francisco.” I will never forget that Paul chivalrously took off his jacket and handed it to me. In “I left my heart in San Francisco,” Tony Bennett sings, “ To be where little cable cars climb halfway to the stars.” As evening fell after a day of sight-seeing, I asked Paul if we could ride on a cable car. Paul is a FIDE Master and Jay was an International Master. Luckily, chess-playing brothers Paul and Jay Whitehead and their mom Loretta offered to host me in their Haight-Ashbury neighborhood home. On my first visit to San Francisco, in the summer of 1982, I hadn’t worked out where I would stay. In this article, I reminisce about my first visit to San Francisco and then share an exciting game from the third round of the Max Wilkerson Memorial Tuesday Night Marathon. Chess players who have visited the Mechanics’ Institute Chess Club once yearn to return to it those lucky enough to live in San Francisco visit it often. The song “I left my heart in San Francisco” fits the Mechanics’ Institute Chess Club. ![]()
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