Carlsen Strikes with Black in Game 6 |
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| Saturday, 16 November 2013 | ||||
 Image from the official site In game 6 Carlsen employed the Berlin Defense again. Anand decided not to swap queens and went for a closed variation (4.d3). However, Magnus didn't have any problems in the middlegame whatsoever. The position has quickly transposed into a Q+R endgame with White having two weak doubled e-pawns. Black eventually won one of the pawns, but had to exchange into a rook endgame, which should probably be holdable for White. On move 60 Viswanathan blundered (60.Ra4?) instead of playing 60.b4 with a draw (not easy to calculate, is it?). Magnus replied with 60...h3! and won in a very instructive fashion. Interestingly enough, during the press conference both players have referred to the position on move 60 as "lost" and have waived 60.b4 off as "too slow". View the game So far the score is 4-2 in Magnus Carlsen's favor, and it looks highly likely that we will have a new World Chess Champion by the end of the match. Half the tournament distance, 6 games, are still to come! 
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