The highest form of Positional Chess | Magnus Carlsen vs Javokhir Sindarov

It's the all-important clash at the Global Chess League as Magnus Carlsen enters in the buggy with his team Vidit, Anish, Divya, Hampi and Murzin. What I've started to enjoy is the camaraderie between these players. They've started becoming more friendly and you can see them joking before the game. The World Championship challenger arrives in for his team of fires American Gambits with Bibisara, Nihal Sareen, Dubov, Sara Khadem and Marc-Andrea Morizzi. Big test again for Jaokir. He's been playing excellent chess. He shakes hands with few of the players and there he enters in along with Magnus Carlsen. This is going to be an epic clash not only because these two players are amazing but because at stake is a spot in the finals. The team that wins will move on to 18 match points which would be a huge thing for them while the team that loses might not be able to finish in top two. Every time before the game finishes the players line up and we have the host who introduces the players. Magnus was introduced here sometimes as the five-time world champion sometimes as the multiple-time world blitz champion and Jaokir well his list of achievements are slowly starting to grow. For now I would say these are the two amazing players on the planet both in good shape and so we as fans are in for a treat as Sindarov and Magnus Carlsen sit opposite each other. It's an event where six players play in each team. The time control is 20 minutes per game and two second increment after move 40 pawn to e4 by Magnus and Jaokir responds back with e5 very solid knight to f3 knight c6 and maybe we'll see the Italian no the Spanish Ruy Lopez a6 played the bishop drops back to a4 and Sindarov goes knight to f6 attacking the pawn on e4. Magnus plays the main line he castles and you can go for the open Ruy Lopez but Jaokir goes for the very sharp I must say with the bishop here and the other bishop usually comes to c5 Magnus can play in multiple ways he goes d3 very solid move and bishop comes out to c5 Sindarov's pieces are very active he likes to play actively knight to c3 and black castles now bishop g5 is possible to pin the knight but Magnus first goes a3 creating a lift for the bishop and Jaokir goes a d6. I always love when Magnus plays the Ruy Lopez because it looks like everyone knows how to play it but somehow Magnus knows it slightly better he takes on e3 now a very interesting decision because it opens up the file on f file and knight e7 played Magnus strikes in the queen side with a4 a b c6 just to keep things solid but Sindarov goes yeah he goes c6 I thought he would go b4 knight to h4 the knight intends to come to f5 and Jaokir plays knight g6 slightly dubious he should have shifted his bishop to this diagonal because now the knight settles in on f5 putting pressure on the g7 point b4 the knight goes back he wants to bring it to g3 and a5 oh d5 played in the center a very solid move Magnus goes knight g3 he's slowly and steadily building up on the king side c5 played attacking the e4 pawn twice you have to do something about it but it is a very big mistake because now Magnus can go queen f3 and Jaokir's position becomes very difficult yes he plays it there's no way to trade pieces and Sindarov is in big trouble he pushes his pawn to and now takes on e4 so he does get some activity but you can see that this pawn is limiting the pieces Magnus goes queen f2 back and now rook d1 next pawn to c5 opening up the bishop knight can jump to d6 white's position is flowing the only thing that Jaokir can do is to create counterplay knight g4 attacks the queen and the pawn and Magnus making sure the board is clean he can play queen e2 queen e1 he plays queen to e2 this position is so difficult to understand it feels like black is getting everything in but it's actually very very good for white rook d1 he plays rook ae1 defending this rook d8 rook ae1 knight is planning to come here h5 played by Jaokir he wants to play h4 and Magnus jumps in with his knight now attacking f7 three times the only way to deal with this is to sacrifice takes and he takes pawn takes d6 queen h4 threatening knight h4 king h1 played very quickly and will Jaokir come up with knight f3 ideas Magnus quickly gets his king to the side of the board and Jaokir goes knight f3 takes takes and queen f2 he's using this bishop on this diagonal if you go queen g2 takes takes king g1 and this pawn combined with the bishop is winning queen check king g1 rook to d8 and we have queen to h2 takes on g4 king starts to run right now white is an entire rook up and check takes Magnus just thinks carefully plays rook g1 rook takes d6 but this is losing now pawn to e4 making space for the king to come up rook to d4 played and rook g2 Jaokir resigns Magnus Carlsen scores an amazing win here and this was a beautiful positional game and somehow Magnus is like shouldn't have done this in fact this was a complete positional outplay by Magnus and maybe it's a good idea to understand how did Jaokir Sindaro get outplayed from a very well-known equalish position this is the mag this is the magic of Magnus Carlsen he's able to outwit his opponents because he just understands chess much better than them and so maybe it's a good point to have a look at what just happened there mainly this win helped the APL Alpine Pipers win their match the first moment where i think things went wrong was when Jaokir played knight g6 allowing knight f5 he could have played the move bishop c8 i do understand that he was a bit afraid of rook but that position was fine knight g6 knight f5 and now after b4 knight e2 it's very natural to feel that things are not going so well and you try to rush it with the move d5 playing in the center but maybe bishop c8 and then after knight g3 playing your bishop to e6 this could have been a better way to continue for black but when he played the move d5 the position that i want you to focus on is after takes and takes and queen takes and queen takes and even after this queen trade the position is completely losing for black because of moves like knight d6 that are coming in the bishop being open the other knight jumping in and also threats like knight h6 so this is a very good example of how positionally someone can be completely outplayed for example c5 attacking this pawn here is met with check you have to take this if you go king h8 f7 is hanging so you take and rook takes f6 and now everything is weak rook is coming in this rook is coming in knight is coming in and it's over so clearly taking on e4 was not the solution so sindorov goes c5 trying to play c4 but this turns out to be another mistake maybe the best way to continue here was to play 98 and after a move like let's say queen f3 you go let's say you wait basically a5 white has to do something let's say rook d1 just getting the rook in you are also kind of trying to wait here because the knight has gone back the position there are no sacrifices no checks knight takes g7 is not coming and overall while this position remains bad this is a possible way to play for black the moment he played c5 queen f3 was amazing because you defend the pawn and i think jawokir understood that if he doesn't do anything like if he goes 98 now he's simply losing a pawn and if he takes here the same problems of rook d1 and knight d6 come in so he went for c4 takes takes which was active but c5 is not come is coming next move rook d1 and knight d6 as well and eventually sindorov had to resign this game like this and give it up for the eight alpine apm wipers a huge congratulations congratulations things started to take a u-turn started to change from your match the game that you won um talk us through that game um yeah first of all uh i i think this was a great great match it was a very good team performance super gutty against i think a very very good team um and uh of course we're we're thrilled to to to get the win i think my game um i was doing pretty well early on but uh he's very very good and he put up a much like the team he put up a he put up a good fight but i was able to um yeah kind of wriggle myself out of it and find some good moves to um to win i will say though that as much as i'm happy with the game and happy with the win uh i do not deserve this player of the match as much as uh the um the man who who won us the match so i would like to respectfully pass on the trophy to meet it team effort is all about and that team comes into play right now thank you so much for doing this that is it from the post-match presentation ceremony casters back to you