Carlsen Just Ran Into The Future Of Chess

Now when I saw that world number one Cagnus Marlson was playing against 12 year old Faustino Oro, the second youngest grandmaster in history, it got me excited. I knew it'd be epic, but boy was this something else. I'm about to bring you a 92 move game. They played on chess.com, eight games. I'll reveal the overall match score at the end. This was 24th of August, 2026. No clue why they were playing, but they were. This is Magnus with the white pieces. We're in a slightly different board view today because of how I had to pull the game in here. So when we go down the analysis line, there won't be the greyed out board, but we'll keep it on the game for the most part. Nimzo Indian on the board. We've seen so much of this recently. And Magnus, true to his form, goes his own way. These are the two most common moves in the position. Magnus doesn't do either. He plays the pawn to a3. Now yes, sure, this happens in many lines, but Magnus is mixing it up here, playing with the move orders, dabbling, testing his young opponent in some stranger positions. Now he brings the bishop to g5. Knight bd7. Black's doing absolutely fine here. Shattered the white pawn structure and the dubious play from Magnus just continues. Watch this. Queen a5 hits a pawn and now he gives up a bishop. Okay, it gets the best move. What do I know about chess? At the end of the day, Magnus has got the worst pawn structure and he's given up the bishops and he's not yet castled compared to his opponent. So we start to understand why black has more than equalized, even though white has a little bit more central space. This queen drops back, but at the end of the day, it's just a chess game. It's blitz chess. And what do you know? In a couple of moves time, here comes the bishop fiend kettering. Magnus roars like a chess lion. Bishop b7, e4 and Magnus is now fighting back. The great wall of Magnus, Norway. What a formidable sight here in the middle of the board. Now we see this knight drop back to fight against it. How? All will be revealed. h3 apparently the most precise. Magnus brings a rook to the center and now we get captures. Pawn takes. What is the move that black should play here? Test your positional understanding. Well done if e5 was coming to you. The idea being, you want to secure this square for your pony. This was how the game went. Pawn captures in the center. Knight takes back. Here comes the seahorse into the promised land and now this is something strange on the way. First the knight hits f5. Kasparov is proud. This is his happy face. Now we see this bishop drop back. Knight e3, bishop b7. Put some pressure on the pawn and watch this. Magnus Blundersen plays the shocker. Queen c3. He just hangs an entire pawn on e4 but Fausti doesn't take it. He plays rook ae8. They're speedrunning blunders right now. What is going on here? Even I could beat them both. No I really couldn't. But anyway this is the game. Knight hops back. The very stinky f6 is on the board. Doesn't impress. Lord hands find gold. Never play f6. Opening the king here. Lifting the underwear. Now we see queen d4 and this is a really strange move to me. But guess what? Best move of the engine. Knight takes on d3. It was such a beautiful knight on an outpost. Unopposed by a dark squared bishop or a knight. Yet given up for this stinky bishop. I don't know why. I guess it's the land this check. Now Magnus makes another blunder. What's going on with him this game? He plays queen d4. King h1 was the best. Now to be fair not obvious why this is a blunder. Can you see the tactical shot which Faustino Oro finds? These kids are so sharp. They do puzzles for days. They don't have kids and jobs and mortgages and all that crap which we've got in our modern day lives right? They can find this stuff like that. It's rook takes on e4. Well done if you saw that one. The point being the queen can't support the defense of the pawn because it's pinned to the king. So if you do this and this. This didn't happen in the game. Then you can't do this illegal move. So this this. Bishop retreats or knight retreats let's say. And black is a pawn ahead. Now let's go back to the game. Because after rook takes on e4. Magnus takes the queens off. Normally lovely jubbly. He's very happy. But the problem here is a bunch of pieces go into the blender. And when the smoke clears. The simple fact is white is a whole pawn down. Now knights are tricky devils in end games. In blitz especially. We know this. But a pawn is a prawn. Black's definitely winning. Faustino Oro's two and a half pawns ahead. Three pawns now when you run it with Eve Albarovitch. However Magnus fights fights fights. This is nuts. What he can do in end games like this blows the mind. h5 not the most precise. Committing another pawn to a light square. Run it back one move. The winning kind of idea which I've discovered through lots of clicking is roughly speaking. I mean there might be a few. But here's one. Put the bishop on this diagonal here. Play for a6 b5. Eventually white's forced to take or else the bishop's taking. King then can cover this square if needed one day. Or this square rather I forget. But long story short. You get these pawns rumbling. And the three on two should create issues for white that distract them. And then you can sort of march in. Okay in the game h5. And Magnus now goes on the most incredible pony manoeuvre. First he wins a pawn. And there wasn't much he could do. a6 actually best move. You know if you try and cover or something. Then the knight's hopping anyway. If you push then the knight's in here and it's on this pawn. No bishop e8. So there were problems everywhere. Fausti went for pawn a6. Now the knight hops. King e6 saves this one. But this pawn drops. And just like that Magnus has levelled the material. More pawns on light squares. And he's the one who can now push for a win. He brings the king over to extricate the knight. You don't want to take and bring the white king in. This is how the game went. And now how about this. Count the pony manoeuvres. This is why Magnus practices deep deep into the knight. With his hobby horse. Nimbus 2000 with a horsey head on. It's for magical games like this. He brings the knight round. Watch this. An absolute tour de horse. Lots and lots of moves. Still 40 to go. We're whizzing through right here. Before my computer poops itself. Completely crashes out. Need a new Nvidia graphics card. But boy are they costly. Don't think I've got that in the budget. But thanks for all your subscriptions and support on the channel. That definitely helps. Maybe I'll get one for Christmas. Look at the pony. It's all over the board. And here comes something special. The king marches in. It's about to chow down on that horse. Which is completely trapped. Did Magnus do it on purpose? Or by accident? Let's say on purpose. Because he is the goat. Especially of the end game. And this is how the game now goes. He loses a knight. Brings in the white monarch. On this epic king walk. Runs the outside passer. Now gobbles before king d6. And look at this. Although he's down a minor piece. He's got two pawns for it. And boy are they dangerous. This is a losing blunder. So difficult. Apparently if you do this. You can potentially hold a draw. Here's a sample line. Even this is absolutely fraught with danger. Taking the pawn. Losing move. Because then you distract the bishop. So you have to not take the pawn. Okay. Who's doing that? King a6. This is all on seconds by the way. Just bonkers. Impossible to find. This is one drawing line. And the black king can run to the corner. Pawn doesn't go through. Who's finding that? Let's go back to real human chess. Fausti blunders here. He does lose this pawn. Stays with this one. This is how the game went. Technically this is still a draw. If you play bishop d3. Let's not go there. This is the game. And bang. Just like that. It's completely lost. In this position. Magnus won on time. But he's also winning on the board. Because there's three pawns running. The bishop cannot cover them all. What was I looking at here? King g7. Bishop d5. If you try and bounce around. Stop the a pawn. Then the h pawn runs. Stop the h pawn. Then one of them eventually runs. Bishop has to make a choice. Can't cover both diagonals. Magnus won this game. And he also took home the match. Five and a half to two and a half. Pretty convincing. I must say. Hope you enjoyed this one. Do have a look at the video on screen. If you want to see another epic game of chess. And I hope to see you again soon. Cheers.