Chess

[DarthFed]

h5! well played. if gxh5 black draws on the spot by taking the bishop.

 

[DarthFed]

Man, that is going to have Carlsen fuming

 

[Federberg]

stalemate surely. I'm tired of people praising Sergey's defensive skills. Magnus frittered this away

 

[Federberg]

I'm sorry but Magnus doesn't deserve to win this thing the way he's playing.

 

[DarthFed]

That was a punch in the balls there. Magnus has to remember it is still tied but to let that opportunity go and have to play 10 minutes later is tough.

 

[DarthFed]

Carlsen has come back pretty strong and has a clear edge with black. Karjakin has not had any kind of an edge in any of the games so far, seems Magnus has been more prepared.

 

[DarthFed]

I feel like Magnus could've applied a LOT more pressure by recapturing gxf6 instead of Bxf6

 

[DarthFed]

Wow Karjakin just threw the game away with an insane blunder. Now all Magnus has to do is draw with white and he retains the title. Really poor play today.

 

[Federberg]

Amazing stuff. He finally cracked. It's over

 

[Federberg]

Now at last we'll get to see Sergey actually try to take the initiative. I must say he's been very negative, but it almost worked for him. He'll have a lot of regrets

 

[DarthFed]

He cracked starting in game 10 of this match. The only interest today was seeing if Magnus would be really negative after the game 2 draw. Karjakin's play has been quite weak.

 

[DarthFed]

Carlsen with a clear edge here and only needs to get a draw. Tough to see how Karjakin can cause any trouble in this game.

 

[Federberg]

Getting close to Sergey being forced to bullet out the moves here. It would take a monumental blunder to turn things around now

 

[Federberg]

Nice finish. Well done Magnus

 

[DarthFed]

Stylish finish. Figured as soon as he tied the match up it was a formality. Karjakin needed to be way better prepared today to have a chance. He got steamrolled and never even looked for an initiative.

 

[Federberg]

Love this idea...

http://en.chessbase.com/post/seirawan-radical-solution-wcc2016-new-york

 

[DarthFed]

That is a very interesting idea, and a pretty good one. I think we discussed earlier this year that the 12 game format is kind of short. I think 18 games is more ideal but if you're sticking with the shorter match then Sierawan's idea is pretty legit.

 

[DarthFed]

I didn't realize this but Caruana is only 4 points lower than Carlsen right now. I don't think anyone has seriously threatened to take over the #1 spot for quite a while so that will be interesting.

 

[Federberg]

I see a 17 point difference on 2700chess. I do agree that's as close as it's been for years

 

[DarthFed]

Weird, I just checked again (we are using the same site) and now it is 17 points. I think Carlsen lost a little over 13 points for the match, it appears the site must have doubled it earlier. 17 is a decent cushion.