13 YEARS Old Magnus Carlsen vs Garry Kasparov Chess

Hello everyone! Today we have the most legendary clash in the world of chess. With the white pieces sits Garry Kasparov, who is considered one of the best players of all time, and with the black pieces the young prodigy Magnus Carlsen. I'm saying young prodigy because this game was played in 2004 in Reykjavik, Iceland. At that time this game was just their second encounter in an official tournament. However, there were already signs of the brilliance Magnus Carlsen would develop in the near future. Garry Kasparov opens the game with the move c4 and after Nf6 by Magnus Carlsen it looks like the game will follow in the English opening. But after some moves we see Nc3, g6, e4, d6, d4, Bg7. Now we have a transposition, the position transformed into the classic King's Indian Defense in the normal variation where white has a very strong center but black is rock solid and doesn't have any weaknesses. So we see Nf3 by Garry Kasparov. Magnus Carlsen decides to castle. After Be2, we see e5, Be3 and now the first trade of the game. e takes on d4, knight takes on d4 and the move c6 by Magnus Carlsen. Now it's time Garry Kasparov to make a smart move and he goes for pawn to f3 which serves many purposes. First of all, this reinforces the pawn on e4 and this pawn chain is truly unbreakable. The second subtle meaning is the fact that this square f2 is now free for the bishop to retreat in the near future. We see Re8 pinning the pawn to the bishop. The bishop doesn't have any defense so he decides to drop back. Bf2 followed by d5 from Magnus Carlsen. Before castling, Garry Kasparov takes his chance, trades the pawns in the center and creates an isolated pawn. This pawn on d5 is very lonely. He doesn't have any neighbors on the e or on the c file so he is quite weak in the center of the board. Now Garry Kasparov neglects any trades and he pushes his own pawn to c5 leaving the pawn on d5 quite isolated. The game develops normally with knight to c6, finally castle and then knight to h5 by Magnus Carlsen striving for that f4 square. This square is very juicy and both sides want to get control over the square f4. Garry Kasparov guards it playing queen to d2 but Carlsen adds more fuel to the fire with the move bishop to e5 adding another attack preparing the future knight to f4 jump. To shut down this concept, Garry Kasparov plays the move g3 gaining full control over that f4 square so now none of Magnus' pieces will actually end up on the square f4. Magnus attacks the rook with the move bishop to h3 but the rook joins the attack on the e-file. In this position, Garry Kasparov has a very subtle yet powerful threat. Let's say that Magnus Carlsen is not careful. He plays a waiting move like pawn to a5. Now Garry Kasparov gets the chance to go f4 attacking the bishop but discovering the bishop's diagonal at the same time. So when the bishop drops back to g7, now Garry Kasparov gets the chance to take on h5 and after the pawn takes back this pawn structure in front of black's king is very weak and white can exploit this weakness and potentially win the game. This is the reason why Magnus Carlsen retreated his knight to g7 in order to not allow f4 with a strong tempo given that the knight is no longer hanging on h5. Now there is no proper way to push the pawn into the f4 square so Garry Kasparov takes a simpler approach in this position. He chooses to develop his last piece into the action playing the move So does Magnus by bringing his own rook to c8 but the moment this rook moved, the a7 pawn is left unguarded and Garry Kasparov goes knight d to b5 and if this knight were to move, this pawn remains weak. a6 kicking the knight out but the knight lands on d6 delivering a fork to both rooks. The only way to escape the fork is to take so we see bishop takes d6 followed by pawn takes on d6. Now this is the moment Magnus Carlsen decides to play a tricky move and test Garry Kasparov. He goes d4 offering a poisonous pawn. If Garry Kasparov were to take this pawn with bishop to d4, knight to d4 will follow and after queen to d4, knight to f5 arrives with tempo targeting the queen and the pawn at the same time. Of course you'd like to move out the queen but defend the but a move like queen to d2 loses on the spot because queen to d6 arrives with check, the king must run away and then the queen lands on f2 with a clear checkmate idea like bishop to g2. If you were to defend it with rook g1, suddenly there is knight e3 and the pressure on g2 is unbearable. The only way to save the game is to give up your queen for the knight. Of course Garry Kasparov saw this variation and he ignored the pawn on d4. He simply ran away with knight to e4 defending his own pawn from d6. In this position Magnus Carlsen tries to get back in the game, play some active moves like bishop to f5 targeting the knight but he missed a critical shot. His opponent has a very strong move up his sleeve and this is the brilliant pawn sacrifice on d7. First of all the pawn cannot be taken with the queen because this will allow knight to f6 to win the game. So the only way to save your rooks is to play bishop takes d7 but this is simply not enough. We see bishop d4, knight to d4 and after queen to d4 there are two threats lurking at the same time. The bishop from d7 is under massive pressure and there is also this nasty knight to f6 fork attacking both the king and the rook. Carlsen realizes the fact that he's cooked so he will have to give up material but he tries his last chance by playing knight to f5 attacking the queen. Of course the queen is going to snap the bishop on d7. Queen to b6 arrives with check but it's nothing serious. The king simply goes to h1. Rook e to d8 is interesting because it targets the queen and applies pressure on the rook from d1 but queen to a4 defends everything. We see rook d1, queen t1 and finally the queen takes on b2. Now comes a very instructive moment in the game especially for beginners. If you are up material as Garry Kasparov is right here. He's up two points of material. You want to win the game in the simplest method possible and if you want to do this you must exchange pieces. This is the reason why he goes queen to b1 offering a trade of queens. We see rook c2, the trade happens. We see queen b2, rook takes on b2 and now the final moments of the game. Bishop c4, knight to d4 targeting the pawn on f3 but after rook to e3 defending the pawn Magnus Carlsen resigns the game. Overall this was a very interesting game. Early in his career at just 13 years old Magnus Carlsen was showing glimpses of his brilliance in this moment where he played d4 offering a poisonous pawn for his opponent especially when we're talking about the goat sitting in front of you. If you enjoyed the video please leave a like, comment your favorite move and subscribe to the channel.