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36. ... Rd8 would have been a great defense because White's threat of Ned6+ and winning the rook doesn't work anymore:
37. Ned6+ cxd6 38. Rxg4 Ne5 attacks the rook and the knight.
Black gets two pieces for the rook.
Carlsen played 36. ... Rf4+ 37. Ke3 Rf8
Although this deals with the threat of losing the rook it creates a new threat for Black:
The king has stepped up and actively guards d4 for the knight to step in.
Judging by the facial expression, Carlsen didn't really expect Anand's reply:
38. Nd4!
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On November 15 2013 02:26 urboss wrote:
Yeah, and not only that: ...Ne5 also threatens a fork on d3!
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On November 14 2013 21:57 oBlade wrote:Show nested quote +On November 14 2013 18:42 Kishin2 wrote:
Why didn't Carlsen go 42. Rd7? What could've Anand done? Carlsen was black. 42. Rd7 is illegal due to it not getting the white king out of check.
Whoops. I mean 46. e7... why not Rd7 instead of Rg3 for Carlsen?
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On November 15 2013 04:42 wingpawn wrote:Yeah, and not only that: ...Ne5 also threatens a fork on d3!
that's true, so much stuff going on in this position
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On November 15 2013 02:26 urboss wrote:36. ... Rd8 would have been a great defense because White's threat of Ned6+ and winning the rook doesn't work anymore: 37. Ned6+ cxd6 38. Rxg4 Ne5 attacks the rook and the knight. Black gets two pieces for the rook. Carlsen played 36. ... Rf4+ 37. Ke3 Rf8 Although this deals with the threat of losing the rook it creates a new threat for Black: The king has stepped up and actively guards d4 for the knight to step in. Judging by the facial expression, Carlsen didn't really expect Anand's reply: 38. Nd4!
edit: Yeah, for a while I thought white could still play Nf6 but I see that doesn't work now.
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why wouldn't Nef6 work?. pins the rook and bishop. black has to change rooks then the pawn on g6 is doomed
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On November 15 2013 16:59 xM(Z wrote:
why wouldn't Nef6 work?. pins the rook and bishop. black has to change rooks then the pawn on g6 is doomed
I don't know, the computer doesn't seem to like the position for White after Nf6.
After 36. ... Rd8 37. Nf6 Rxc4 38. Rxc4
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Here Black has only one move to get his pieces going:
38. ... g5
White can pick up the g pawn with
39. Rg4
But now, finally Black's bishop can come out
39. ... Bg6 40. Rxg5
and the knight can now block the e pawn:
40. ... Ne7
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Now there are two things going on:
Black can pin the knight on f6 and the knight doesn't have any good squares.
More importantly, both white pawns are stuck on light squares.
They will eventually be picked off by the light-squared bishop.
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after Rxc4 and g5?, white takes the bishop then goes Nd4 after (black)takes Rde8
faster draw 
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not sure, but after Nd4 just Nxd4 and White even loses the e pawn.
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i think g3 is the move here.
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Thanks for making this thread! I wouldn't have known about the chess championship going on otherwise. Now I've watched game 4, which was thoroughly enjoyable, and currently watching game 5
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I was calling that castle
It's the move I would have played in that position
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On November 15 2013 19:34 Ettick wrote:
I was calling that castle
It's the move I would have played in that position
pawn capture too? XD
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a billion viewers following the games via internet/newspaper?
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EPT
