Magnus Carlsen vs Boris Gelfand | An impeccable positional grind

When Magnus Carlsen gets an advantage it's extremely difficult for his opponents wriggle out of the bind. Check out this game from the World Blitz 2021 where Carlsen is up against the legendary Boris Gelfand. Carlsen opens the game with 1.e4 and Boris plays his favourite Sicilian Defence. Who do you think won the game? Check out the video to find out.
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[@osniper4407]

bro magnus fixing his pieces after the time has already started in a blitz game is just so badass 💀

[@hatemail69]

@@KZbin_Stole_My_Handle_Too Magnus signals him to go ahead and start it

[@Youtube_Stole_My_Handle_Too]

@@hatemail69 You are right. I'm sorry.

[@owolabioluwatimilehinisrae9827]

Magnus always looks confused but still continues to play the best moves... Love this guy🥰

[@213kanwernadeem5]

the more you know the more comfused your e

[@Anant0909]

It's his psychological plan may be. To look very confused so opponent thinks you are loosing and commits mistakes 🤣🤣😂😂😉😉

[@magnum4989]

so accurate 😆

[@AdiiS]

To force queen exchange, can't move out of it, otherwise the rook on h8 bye bye

[@rodluc2001]

Is not confused dude… is just a thinking process of a monster mind

[@ayodejiolukoya993]

I always love it when they analyze the game afterwards moving their hands around.

[@Komprimat1111]

same :D

[@pierresilva1439]

me too

[@OffensiveChesss]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/anurZGVoYs2krtk amazing double sacrifice. M Hewitt vs W.Steinitz 1866

[@peterahdy7354]

Moving their middle finger*

[@baronisnc3704]

@@peterahdy7354 🤣🤣

[@kewinprasad_8434]

Battle between the Generations!!! Respect for both!!!

[@Koyoshinkai]

It's amazing how gelfand is still going great even @ 2022

[@ironlionzion1380]

Gelfand is one of the very few players over 50 still going strong.

[@seekthe9]

GM Benjamin Finegold begs to differ! lul

[@jumbleofwords]

@@seekthe9 go ben!

[@seekthe9]

@@jumbleofwords but stay here!

[@myms9681]

why did I read Gandalf lol

[@eshizhamsuev]

@@myms9681 Gandalf is 3000 ELO my friend

[@williambunter3311]

Magnus has the ability to attack while at the same time maintaining a perfect defence. Amazing!

[@georgbest337]

CAPABLANKA AND ALIEXIN SIMULTANEOUSLY

[@andrei-cezarbleaje5519]

or fischer+karpov@@georgbest337

[@joshdarius5995]

What a Chess genius , so glad I lived during the best eras, Fischer, Kasparov v Karpovs, Anans, Kramnik and now the best so far MC. Thee ambassador GOAT.

[@neville-mladen9393]

Don't you love it, playing Blitz chess and spending important time to have his pieces in order I love it, a spanking from the start

[@TheDeghohun]

Omg that ending! Just wow!

[@Sam-oz6xx]

Magnus always plays so brilliantly and makes it seem so effortless, notice anytime in any game and you'll find that all of his pieces are protected by some other piece almost every single time.. Just crazy!

[@jameslonergan4830]

That's really what I admire about his game. He may be a bold player, but he isn't reckless. I've become a better player by focusing on this aspect of play.

[@festonachinda6026]

I watch a lot of grandmaster's games and I analyze them sometimes. But when Gilfand chose to queen side castle chose to be defeated like a lamb waiting to be slaughtered. The queen side had two pawn islands, and him to castle on that side also delayed the development of his rook. So it made it easier for magnus to calculate, you can see how comfortable he got after Galfend castle on the queen side.

[@sgarg7588]

Exactly what I was wondering. Also made a brutal mistake to open E file for the rook to enter at the end

[@dirtiago]

If he didn't, it would be another boring defensive game, 3 minutes should be always more dynamic but sometimes some nice games like this rise from the grave just because of a different variation, even if its castle, but because it was castle. I think it should be an incredible 15 minutes match.. anyway, against carlsen the end game is always a nightmare..

[@gurudeekshaclasses]

Exactly 👍👍👍👍

[@chriszablocki2460]

I don't like publicly criticizing chess masters, but I was thinking the same thing. Carlsen had both rooks ready to roll and those files were wide open.

[@Morebeats_]

@@sgarg7588 that was more time constraint error. Queen side castle made him defend the rest of the game

[@robert84_]

Me - *thinks of next move for Magnus* Magnus - *makes the move you thought of* Me - "Am I a Grand Master? o_O" 😂

[@sharegreats2157]

@more tests in chess clubs and tournaments will show ...

[@omkarghurye9381]

How do you get the videos of these games?

[@deepster49]

Don’t know why he castled queen side. Left him so vulnerable and open to attack

[@juicywumbo984]

I love the mini talk at the end!

[@sbalaga]

Boris is known for his defense and counter play, but unfortunately that comes with a drawback as well, because it can be very passive and monotone at times.

[@spiffaz]

I love the "Eh, what are you gonna do?" "Yeah, what are you gonna do." exchange of glances at 8:25

[@HezOmanjo]

The way Magnus shifted his attention to the kingside just when Gelfand was reinforcing his queenside only to allow for weaknesses to show on the e-file is quite something!

[@Morebeats_]

Queen side castle was suicidal

[@joshdarius5995]

Broke him down like a gangster

[@j.u.4.n620]

Ah yes! Great Tutorial I learned to play chess Thanks

[@Mendaxxx]

If possible please show the threats on digital board because sometimes I don't understand properly 🤣

[@YoussefRahoui]

Best way to display a game

[@tocov]

Wow. Gelfand is such an amazing positional player. But Magnus took him down to the wire in this one. Great stuff. Two legends.

[@HezOmanjo]

Gelfand's 0-0-0 is the most surprising decision I have seen in a while. Expected 0-0 for black.

[@hellopleychess3190]

???

[@letmetakeyoufaraway7035]

@@hellopleychess3190 0-0-0 is long castle and 0-0 is short castle.

[@hellopleychess3190]

yes I am a chess grandmaster@@letmetakeyoufaraway7035

[@SirArthurConnanDoyle994]

Si alguien habla español, que me explique por favor porqué el Sr de lentes no siguió jugando???? Evidentemente soy nuevo pero pudo seguir jugando, porqué se dió por vencido? Ni siquiera estaba en jaque, no lo entiendo gracias

[@shinchanff8224]

Superbb😍😍

[@tesseractworld973]

I could able to find boris next moves but unable to find kalicharan''s move except rook a1 placement to open file. Magnus is a beast !!

[@JieShuShuai]

"Playing chess is very simple, but playing simple chess is the hardest thing there is" Magnus Cruyff

[@sureshpatel1288]

wonderful game!!!

[@shilicaso]

That guy is not prepared to play in that category, he makes totally disastrous plays, I don't know why the champion didn't beat him in the middle of the game.

[@cryptowizard9578]

Still I can't understand why the great Gelfand went Queen side castling?

[@SUGGYAN1356]

Battle of two Legends...

[@JohnSmith-un9jm]

Only one legend: Magnus!

[@jacobozal5562]

@@JohnSmith-un9jm nope! You need to read more about Gelfand

[@Ajedrez_90]

What an awesome dark-squared bishop on c5!

[@poyge394]

Why he could not take with pone ?

[@Suspectization]

8:26 the moment when u know, u messed up 😂

[@abhinavabhi2531]

Who won? And why?

[@mrm-channel]

8:18 I think playing f6 to f5 was best for Gelfand

[@TheRomanianWolf]

Why?

[@gandalfswitz]

It would be better, because black is looking for a closed fortress where white cannot break anywhere through, despite of room advantage. But would probably still be won for white and Gelfand probably already saw the hole in the fortress and desperately tried something else, while his mental was already given up

[@senthilkumarpanneerselvam6657]

Superb game

[@kevinfromelizabethtowncoll4006]

Another masterfully played game by Magnus Carlsen. Magnus is truly one of the greats in chess and someone for us all to play just like.

[@2kchi177]

HAHA! Thumbnail looks like Magnus sayin’ “that move is BULLS#%T!” and flips the table over. 🤣

[@Morebeats_]

The long castle was dubious

[@leonardolucena3336]

Magnus, ele tem raciocino rápido, bastante estratégico também, muito bom

[@sijumathew2234]

What a game

[@sachinsuryavanshi3437]

Who won?

[@chowjayweing3483]

Gelfand didn't stop the timer so is it a resignation or a draw? I am very confused after looking at some comments

[@tylerross9706]

Gelfand resigned, he resigned because he's about to drop an exchange

[@czarekczarek8207]

lost

[@czarekczarek8207]

lose,sry

[@FreeFire-xv7gk]

0:05 this girl in love

[@LogicAndMath]

Magnus was trying to say "I know you're better than that and just got "unlucky". Smth like that, u can see it in handshake as well

[@DaMastaBrother]

Can someone explain why carlsen didn‘t use his pawn to get the bishop but his queen instead? (At 4:10)

[@a.law87]

I keep asking the same questiom

[@TheRomanianWolf]

@@a.law87 because he went into a much better endgame by taking with the queen. HOW does taking with the pawn helps???

[@legal_enlightening]

Can anyone explain why at 04:09 he took bishop with queen and not with pawn

[@luizmoraes181]

to force the guys to use/give his queen as well, problably magnus had a strategy where the use of queen was not necessary and thus he "sacrificed" it to aquire the oponent queen.

[@bastiantkd]

He had a column with his queen and rook so he didnt want to block that column in first place. Also he didnt want to isolate his pawn in c3 and e5, it would be 2 weaknesses. Black was pushed to get the queen, because that.

[@curtish2541]

Magnus was trading queens and opening the center of the board for the bishop lines on the king. He was basically taking queen away from defending. His pieces were set up well to start an attack but he needed queen out of the way. The move I thought was brilliant was when he moved king to h2. He was three moves ahead at that point, and it kept him on the attack.

[@bastiantkd]

@@curtish2541 gelfand pushed the trade really.

[@curtish2541]

@@bastiantkd I don’t think so. Gelfand’s queen was defending that whole side of the board and Magnus wanted it opened up.

[@alexanderf5497]

What should Boris have done after Re8?

[@Mach1Airspace]

At that point it was too late and his game was lost but to prevent MC’s rook from moving to e8 he should have captured fxg5 1 move earlier and after white’s recapture fxg5 he should have played Rd8 but MC would have still been able to maneuver and gobble a few of black’s k-side pawns and win the endgame

[@trimilli]

that was smooooth

[@leonardolucena3336]

Nunca vi aqui no Brasil jogador como ele ou que se aproxime do nível dele.......

[@diegobatistagamadeoliveira8199]

intuição pura

[@ianianian0110]

mequinho

[@arunprashadleelak95]

at 4:10 why magnus didnt take bis with pawn, he taken bis with queen. both queens gone why is that happened. is taking with wrong move or he didnt realise there is pawn to take that, can anyone clarify me on this

[@TheRomanianWolf]

He wanted an endgame because of better pawn structure.

[@vixr9557]

how can you play Bxe5? Bishop for knight in such position where you only have 1 result draw if lucky.. thats how Magnus win everybody scared..

[@shomilsingh4795]

Noive

[@tjaywankee3399]

What’s the name of the chess clock?

[@Tidoublemy]

Norman

[@tjaywankee3399]

@@Tidoublemy thanks!

[@NikhilJha89]

Magnus focussing more on the girls than his game😀

[@KANHAIYAKUMAR-ib1hw]

Bhai Bhai kya chal chali

[@grim-reapergaming4248]

Who won???

[@dendisetiawan8133]

7:39

[@ingowalter2226]

What a match

[@gerardoavila007]

Teniendo el pion y sacrificio de reina q pensamito de mágnus

[@poyge394]

Why Magnus did not take bishop with pone ?

[@TheRomanianWolf]

How does that help???

[@MarianoFreyreX]

This game is a classic amazing torture.

[@jaysonhome1263]

No handshake?

[@f.hammad]

Magnus is outclass player. Both played well..... Fantastic war. 🤗

[@mattpierce4108]

Why do they each leave a bishop off the board?

[@wot_hog]

They didn't. The two extra pieces you see behind the clock are Queens. They have them in reserve in case a pawn gets queened while they still have their Queen on the board and they need the extra queen.

[@mohitkala3852]

Cause they are atheist.

[@herdiman8741]

After playing they both like talking about yes but no.. lol

[@researchscholar]

3:34 Wouldn't that be touch move by Magnus? Unless he mouthed "adjusting" before he touched the pawn.

[@emranahmed5711]

No way you can push Carlsen to an endgame, mr Boris. Carlsen has the ability of squeezing stone to bring water in endgame. (Magnus Carlsen =Fischer + karpov)

[@wilhelmjustheim7455]

Grandios Magnus

[@mohammadmansouri9916]

Magnus touched the pawn but played the queen!!!

[@Luiyo03432]

Magnus is too overpower

[@renishisrael9520]

Carlsen should not have lost to adbusattarov he is crushing everyone else

[@fairtrue4557]

I think the Bg4 is good for black

[@discoveryfacts2060]

Good... opponent he was best player

[@JovenAgrario]

Boris Gelfand se apendejo en una jugada

[@benjaminbina2183]

Why there was no handshake???

[@Bonaparte889]

there was

[@garyhelms1889]

I'm not a chess player but I'm familiar with the moves a piece can make. I admit it, I don't see why it was over. Can anyone explain why Boris yielded.

[@TheDataArchitect]

His rooks were attacked.

[@Juanfx5408]

Carlsen win for time

[@dan4091]

6 seconds left and he was about to lose a rook

[@user-bt8cl2qy7c]

lose a tiv

[@bigsmoke2098]

Has anyone noticed the combination 1- the girl which is on white side is wearing a black shirt and the girl which is on black side is wearing a white shirt And 2- Magnus wearing white shirt and having white side and other player wearing black shirt with black side 😄😄

[@lalikarlomusic]

Why the use the mask when they walk away? I’ve seen that all over the places, super wierd

[@theworldofwit4214]

Now it is right

[@saiharsha3202]

0:06 me imagining how my crush should look at me...😂

[@boniazuaga4984]

What happens if boris move his alfil to D7 to atack the white tower?

[@TheRomanianWolf]

What timestamp?

[@muratyildiz506]

The Big Magnus Carlsen, he knows he will win :) a true Champ

[@gusgebzz]

Why Gelfand resigned?

[@mayanm7105]

he will be losing a rook for bishop, that is 2 points/exchange down.. and also gained a tempo attack on 7 and 8th rank

[@vikassaxena9420]

boris did nothing but defending ...

[@Konfucyus]

çok rahat çok profösyonel

[@davidpax]

I am new to the game and I think it's weird the way you take the opponent's pieces. First you remove the piece, then you move your own piece to that square. It should be the other way around. 🙃

[@kctiwari5067]

That's the professional way though kids play the way you suggest

[@davidpax]

@@kctiwari5067 So I can remove a piece from the board and wait a few seconds to decide which piece I will take it with 😀.

[@kctiwari5067]

@@davidpax That is a good idea which even I didn't think of but professional chess involves time management so we shan't waste much time on deciding the piece

[@neverfold4834]

@@davidpax no. You do not pick up a piece and then decide which piece to take it with. Some pieces cant take other pieces because of the way they move. You make your decision. You pick up the piece you want to take. The replace it with yours. Always remember, the pieces all move in different ways.

[@But_kikr]

Noice, dragon sicilian by black

[@rahulgosavi3030]

So you get bishop in exchange for rook... Then why to resign?

[@stagna1959]

Black is pretty much hopeless after 1...Rd7 2. Bxb8 Kxb8 .3. d5. Two rooks is mighty force , cooperate very well and together with centralized white king they just massacre black kingside pawns and promote one of their own pawn . Being very experienced grandmaster Gelfand just did not want to go thru all this torture and humiliation. To resign was smart decision .

[@Anant0909]

Black will be a full rook down means 5 points down after white bishop captures black rook. And then it's simple win for white. At GM level it's a simple win being piece up.

[@higherbeingX]

@@Anant0909 Yes even a pawn down at this level is game over if you are positionally weak

[@Stl71]

@@stagna1959 Smart or not, was the only decision left. At that level, +2 points is enough to go for a win.

[@Chess_Bruh]

He knows that his opponent is best in the world to convert that endgame effortlessly, there is nothing to do except resigning

[@chessiskingful]

Why boris go for a long castel

[@f18superhornetcer78]

They didnt hand shake , so it should be cancel..

[@RobynHode8]

...g6 is inaccurate, better is ...e5. Gelfand's pawn structure was demolished.

[@user-kl3ot6bg5h]

Жаль , что когда то Гельфанд упустил стать чемпионом мира в последней партии с Виши Анандом. . Я вообще перестал бы играть в шахматы. Но , он до сих пор играет...

[@Humanwatchesandcomments]

@ 4:00 Magnus could have won this by playing D4 to E5

[@bastieng3821]

I don't undersand why he didn't...

[@Humanwatchesandcomments]

My guess is that Carlson wanted to get the draw to avoid playing someone in the tournament because he is a magnificent talent

[@TheDataArchitect]

@@Humanwatchesandcomments What difference does this makes? pawn whould have taken it.

[@Humanwatchesandcomments]

@@TheDataArchitect If you play it out after this move there are several possibilities where Carlsen could have ended up in a much better position where I'm confident he could have mated. Those possibilities depend on how his opponent reacts to the dance that would follow after making that move

[@smrutiranjanbiswal1818]

why magnus not capture black bisop by pown🧐🧐but capture by queen

[@a.law87]

I do also want to know

[@TheRomanianWolf]

@@a.law87 because taking with the queens gets into a much better endgame. Taking with the pawn helps NOTHING, except limit his own bishop!

[@kartiktaneja3601]

Did magnus win by time-out?

[@JezzhaSelendra]

Yeah he did

[@zvibtm1]

No. Gelfand resignd.

[@Juanfx5408]

@צבי ב see the clock

[@zvibtm1]

@@Juanfx5408 The clock was on 3 sec when Gelfand resignd

[@Juanfx5408]

@@zvibtm1 Resigned because his time was over

[@adamkaktusmusic]

Why didnt he take with the pawn

[@Xtat1cNP]

*reads title* That's what she said!

[@vm_c137]

She?

[@josuke21]

@@vm_c137 its a meme

[@Pianoman8989]

He basically won the game in 8 moves positionally lol