Resigned on move 19! Fabiano Caruana Wei Yi. Round 3. Candidates Tournament 2026. Chess

What is more important in chess? Material, piece and pawn ratio time, development, pace, initiative or the position of the king, pawn structure and the like A chess player has to during a game take all these factors into account but sometimes they are so unbalanced, My head is spinning. In the third-round match Fabiano Caruana's Candidates Tournament in WEI One of the grandmasters was unable to deal with a difficult analysis task of synthesis and calculation of variants, and was forced to surrender Already on the nineteenth move. So, the white pieces went to to the American grandmaster, And he started the game with a knight to e3. The Chinese in WEI respond in kind. Horses at six. A symmetric variant is played on the board. of English began. Fabian sends the elephant to the Fianketta zone, The black one keeps squawking like a parrot. repeating the opponent's moves. Actually, after the knight moves to three rejects obsessive symmetry and advances the central pawn. Caruana changes in the center of the grandmaster and sequentially completes Fiancetta, and the chess mafia boss sends knight's flank attack on the queen's side, to frighten the opponent and remind him whose city this is I mean, the tournament, and who's in charge here. The Chinese man closes the shutters of his shop. not wanting to pay, What infuriates whites And they begin the sabotage. A horse must somehow defend itself under fire. They usually played E6 here. and protecting his horse and attacking the enemy. But Wei decided to surprise his opponent with a novelty, sacrificing two pawns. Fabiana decisively captures the pawn on the square. Six delivers a double hit on the overhead. Swallows another pawn. Wei pushes back the horse, with a tempo that seizes the open line, and after retreating, cuts off the king's path to safety. sacrificing the third pawn. The clock's hands eloquently tell us about The Chinese player is still playing according to home preparation. But the American has long since begun to think for himself. In case of capturing the pawn on the square, A7 black is just rocking it, And then he starts attacking the king stuck in the center. The whites, of course, have three extra pawns. But in reality, they are playing without three pieces. The Blacks have a significant advantage in development. Therefore, in the party, Fabiano Caruana decided to moderate his appetite, and instead of capturing the pawn, wrote down a move, to force one of the opponent's pieces to worsen its position. But in the case of an elephant blocking it, The white king gets a chance to castle after the queen's retreat. I guess we'll have to close it by horse. Caruana moves the rook to the file already with a rather transparent idea. Catch luck by the tail, and you'll catch an elephant by the trunk. The Chinese player pays no attention to it, castling. The door closes neatly. And the executioner ascends by elevator to the third floor. Black needed to play knight to f6, attacking the pawn. Play e5, for example, to play h5. And the elephant, apparently, isn't catching. In the case of the bold move f3, Black moves queen to d6. The problems here can only be with the whites. But by this point, home preparation in e had apparently come to an end. and after carefully pondering for about 30 minutes over a countermove, He immediately made an inaccuracy: the rook on c5. Well, it seems the black pieces are attacking the queen. but the point is that after the move queen b3 The rook on g3 still threatens. and the black rook falls under tempo. But suppose, for instance, the knight moves to f6, By attacking the pawn, White gives a skewer to the rook. Then saddles the horse, posing a threat not only to the move Rg3, and also capturing on g6, using diagonal lacing If the black pieces save the elephant with the move h5, Then the whites break through on g6. Then they retreat with the knight to e5. And black is bad too. In this case, if the leader of the black army leaves the x-ray field, Now the white pieces attack the elephant. They attack with the tempo of the queen when capturing the pawn. They're taking it to the field h3, and gain a decisive material advantage. And finally, in the case of immediate capture, White pawns break through to the g6 square. leaning against the boat, Next, they attack the enemy's strongest piece. attack the white-square bishop White has only one extra pawn left. Yet they completely eliminate the development gap. And now it's no longer clear which king is in a worse position. white on e1, or black on g8. In our own match, judging by all indications, astounded by the sheer strength of his opponent's independent play, and it somehow completely came apart on the silk, not e5, What turned out to be the grossest mistake. In the factory it just changes. in the case of an elephant taking it, White launches a double attack and wins a piece. Although capturing on e5 in our game changes absolutely nothing. since Caruana's knight on d1 is removed from the board, And the black elephant is surrounded by enemies, captured, beaten, and humiliated. Well, I can't bear such treatment anymore. On his nineteenth move in e, he conceded defeat. That's how it is, friends. As they say, rely on your computer homework. But don't you worry. He played poorly and was rightly defeated. After four rounds, Javakhir Sendarov leads the competition. but ten rounds remain until the end, And many have a chance at overall victory. Write in the comments what you think about everything said above. Like the video and share it on social media, And until our next meeting.