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GM Magnus Carlsen
19/7/2021 – World Champion Magnus Carlsen has been holding his crown since 2013. There were 2 challengers who tried to dethrone him the likes of GM Fabiano Caruana (USA) and GM Sergey Karjakin (Russia) but won both matches.
Now, another very strong challenger GM Ian Nepomniachtchi (Russia) will try his best to outwit him on November 24, 2021 in Dubai Exhibition Centre.
I was checking his games, particularly a 17 year old game in the Calvia Olympiad (2004). One thing I found out, he was already playing maturely and aggressively. But today, he plays like AlphaZero in my opinion.
The Nimzo-Indian Defense is an aggressive black opening vs. 1. d4. The idea behind this opening is to bring out pieces at kingside and castle early then create an imbalance position to white position. However, GM Magnus Carlsen’s character of being so patient in finding the correct moves at right timing, won in entertaining fashion.
CHESS BLOG No. 6 / Date: 19th July 2021
Nimzo-Indian Defense: Classical Variation (E38) Chess Opening Classification
GM Magnus Carlsen vs. GM Nurlan Ibraev
(Event: 2004 Calvia Olympiad- Spain – Round 10)
1: d4 Nf6
2: c4 e6
3: Nc3 Bb4 (The Nimzo-Indian Defense)
4: Qc2 c5 (White used the Classical variation)
5: dxc5 Bxc5
6. Nf3 Qb6 (I do not prefer this move due to it helps white to develop)
7. e3 Qc7 (Black is delayed in development)
8. b3 b6
9. Bb2 Bb7 (Now its time for white to attack).
10. Nb5 Qd8 (Akward)
11. 0-0-0 0-0 (No choice)
12. Ng5!! Re8 (Black has terrible position)
13. h4 e5
14. Nd6!! Bd6
15. Rd6 h6
16: Qf5 Nc6 (nothing black can do)
17: Rf6 (1-0) (Analyze this)
