Magnus Sacs His Rook Out of Nowhere!! 😱 INSANE

Okay, so I get Fiorito and then I suspect Nieman and Nakamura are also playing, so... No easy pairings in this field though, especially somebody who's won six games out of six is normally quite good at chess. E5, huh? I guess we're back to playing the French. I'm gonna play the same old system that I always do. cd4, knight e7. No surprises, but seems to work out well for me. Oh, this most people play with... most people play with knight a3 to c2 these days, but this is also decent. I had this against... What's his name? Ravi Hadia from England at the old European Club Cup last year. Is rook c1 a move here? Is that what I'm running into? I don't see it though. Here... I guess I should go b5 just to prevent any b4 knight. And this, I don't know. This feels reasonable for black to me. This is what I thought maybe he couldn't do. Take the pawn? Oh, there's qg4. That's the problem. Guess we'll take and castle. This could be a bit worse for me actually now. I'm a little bit worried. Usually in these positions you want to play like a quick. So maybe I should have done things a bit differently there. Here, I think I should go f6. Queen b1 or something. I'm hoping fe5 and then king h8 and just pretending that I'm fine. I should have just taken with the bishop. I just, I don't know. This felt safer intuitively. Long term, I'm more or less fine here. I do have the bishop pair after all. Let's go here. Always nice. Yeah, this I was not worried about at all. Normally I think I feel decent about opening the position like that. I do have some hanging pieces to contend with. This is interesting actually. The idea after queen c2 which attacks a couple of positions in my point is to take this one. Okay, let's go here. Try and bring the knight around. I was not convinced that that line was working. So I feel like my position is fundamentally all right. So there's no need to to do anything crazy. d6 here. I think I got rook h6. That should be fine. It's hard for me to imagine that he can do something like immediately violent here. This is a move that I can play next preventing knight h5 and also bringing the queen into play along the seventh rank. And he is burning a lot of time. So that's a good sign. Very even game so far. Okay, so that is a bit of, I wouldn't say shameful retreat, but that means that I certainly don't have any problems here. Let's go here. I'm sending knight g5, which is kind of transparent, but it's not that easy to do something about it. He can move the rook from the file, but you don't really want to do that generally. Now I'm still hinting at this. Okay, that makes sense. Let's change tack and go for knight d6. Here. Oh, he's got knight e5. That was underestimated, at the very least. More or less missed, if I'm going to be even more honest. Let's go here maybe. There's knight g4, but at least I have some rook f7, knight b2 maybe. Very murky. Time can quickly become a factor here. And this I don't think he should do. It should be f5, h2. That seems to be a big pawn here. Should win. Queen c4, I got ab, attacking his queen. Otherwise gf, I go ab. I'm winning material. g5 looks normal. Try and bring in the queen. It looks like it's going to be game over for soon. Rook f5, queen e5 I guess, but I am winning on position and on the board. It's a clever try though. Go here maybe. Rook b8, just protect the pawn. Rook f5, bishop f6, knight c4, maybe knight e3 or knight d6, or just knight b2 if he allows that. Oh, tricky move, knight c4. I would have been in blunder. Now it's a fork and that's the end of the game. That was not at all easy. There's a half a point, so I suspect Niemann and the card made a draw. And I am certainly playing Niemann next.