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08.00 Mumbai/ 03.30 Hamburg/ 21.30 New York: IM Sagar Shah analyzes the key positions and the fifth round encounter on the ChessBase India website. According him,Sergey Karjakin played an excellent game and held Magnus with ease.
01.15 / 19.15: Draw agreed. The fifth draw in a row but the first, in which Karjakin had serious chances.
#CarlsenKarjakin A strange game. Throughout it seemed that Carlsen forgot that Karjakin could play for a win. And Karjakin forgot too.
— Daniel King (@DanielKingChess) November 18, 2016
01.00 / 19.00: The opinion among spectators also is that Carlsen was doing fine until he missed Karjakin's ...d4! After this, Karjakin might have been winning, but he returned the favor with ...Bd5 allowing Carlsen's e6! Now it is anyone's game and the opinions even among the GMs diverge on whether White is fine or Black still retains an edge thanks to his pressure against White's weak king.
The tables are crowded with players trying to reach a consensus. Here IM Javier Ochoa,
president of the Spanish Federation, partakes in the fun.
Norwegian journalist Kaja Marie Snare tours the Café asking fans their opinions.
00.47 / 18.47: According to the engines Karjakin gave most of his advantage away when he played 43...Bd5?!. Three moves later the engines consider the position as equal but suddenly both sides seem to have chances again.
00.32 / 18.32: For the first time in the match Carlsen is under serious pressure.
00.14 / 18.14: Karjakin seized his chance and played 43...d4!?, an interesting pawn-sacrifice that liberates Black's white-squared bishop and forces Carlsen to play precisely again.
"He’s not messing around here. He’s playing for mate."
— US Chess (@USChess) November 17, 2016
-GM Shankland on Karjakin's last move#CarlsenKarjakin
This is very dangerous. Could be a dream come true for Karjakin, with two consecutive whites to come.
— Jonathan Tisdall (@GMjtis) November 17, 2016
00.10 / 18.10: Carlsen's aimless play before the time-control has brought him into trouble: after 42 moves the engines see an advantage for Black and Carlsen is suddenly on the defensive again.
23.55 / 17.55: In the last moves before the time-control Carlsen has not made any progress - and it is difficult to see how he can make progress.
23.30 / 17.30: After stopping Karjakin's initiative Carlsen is in full control again. In a major piece endgame with opposite-colored bishops he runs no real risk of losing but can try to win - for a long time.
Oh boy we are in the trenches again Karjakin seems to have spoiled a comfortable position the Carlsen press is on #worldchess2016
— Malcolm Pein (@TelegraphChess) November 17, 2016
22.59 / 16.59: The main room is quite full today, with fans loving the complicated struggle going on. The organizers are also running a blitz tournament in view of the success of the one two days ago. One can hear the pairings being announced while others debate the game at hand.
Avid chess fan enjoying the blitz tournament.
Tim Hanks from the US Chess Federation analyzes the game with GM Denes Boros
22.51 / 16.51: In this game Karjakin had a promising looking position with active pieces but he found no way to put pressure on White and now has to defend again.
Now there are only two possible results - a white win or a draw, with the latter being more likely #CarlsenKarjakin
— Nigel Short (@nigelshortchess) November 17, 2016
22.33 / 16.33: After 20 moves a strategically and tactically complicated position is on the board. And Karjakin has a bit less than 30 minutes on the clock, Carlsen has a bit less than 40 minutes to reach the time-control on move 40.
22.19: / 16.19: Chess is demanding:
Espen says the Norwegian PM has texted and hopes for a shorter game, the government is frazzled after so many long nights. #CarlsenKarjakin
— Jonathan Tisdall (@GMjtis) November 17, 2016
22.13 / 16.13: Things might heat up soon:
"This is not going to be an endgame grind. This is going to be a tactical battle in the center."
— US Chess (@USChess) November 17, 2016
-GM Shankland#CarlsenKarjakin
22.05 / 16.05: Karjakin now also takes time and invests more than 20 minutes on his 19th move.
21.54 / 15.54: The position is complicated but Karjakin seems to have good chances.
If Black manages to connect his rooks and put his bishop back on c8 he'll be better. Magnus has to conjure something soon. #CarlsenKarjakin
— Jonathan Rowson (@Jonathan_Rowson) November 17, 2016
21.45 / 15.45: After thinking for more than fifteen minutes, Carlsen finally came up with 18.Ne5, a move Fabiano Caruana had predicted minutes before on twitter.
The position is difficult to evaluate,and just one mistake could turn the evaluation either way. Ne5 will likely come soon #CarlsenKarjakin
— Fabiano Caruana (@FabianoCaruana) November 17, 2016
21.37 / 15.37: Carlsen played the opening quickly but then slowed down. After 17...Bf5 Carlsen spent a lot of time on his next move and caught up with Karjakin on the clock.
21.06 / 15.07: Carlsen's 14.Bxf7+ made Simon Williams wonder:
#CarlsenKarjakin Not sure why these guys hate their light square bishop so much.
— Simon Williams (@ginger_gm) November 17, 2016
21.00 / 15.00: After a short tactical skirmish (13...Nxe4 14.Bxf7+ Rxf7 15.Nex4) we once again see a fight knight vs bishop. The engines evaluate the position as equal and until now Carlsen has not spent much time on his moves and is 20 minutes ahead on the clock.
20.49 / 14.49: Nigel Short seemed to like Carlsen's opening choice.
21st century homo chessicus has concluded that white should put his bishop on c4, attacking f7 - as they already understood 500 years ago.
— Nigel Short (@nigelshortchess) November 17, 2016
20.30 / 14.30: Both sides played the first moves quickly, but after Carlsen's 12.h3 Karjakin took some time to remember his preparation - or think on his own.
20.05 / 14.05: No Ruy Lopez today. Carlsen again started with 1.e4 and after thinking for 30 seconds Karjakin replied 1...e5. But after 2.Nf3 Nc6 Carlsen deviated from game 3 and played 3.Bc4.
20.01 / 14.01: Bennett Miller, chess fan and director of the film "Capote" from 2005, is guest in the AGON studio and played the first move. "Capote" gave the late Philip Seymour Hoffman the Oscar for Best Actor.
19.50 / 13.50: It also works the other way round - as a TNT 2009 NBA playoffs commercial shows. Under the heading "Basketball is like a game of chess" the commercial lists a number of parallels:
"The first move requires no pieces. It is the look into the eyes of your opponent. The iron gaze of a warrior. The frozen stare of a man possessed. The piercing glare of a champion. Feel his years. A lifetime of hunger and hope trifles and triumphs. Search his heart for fear. Show him none in return.
No single piece can win a match. Combine several, move them in constant, and behold a synchronized symphony of force. Push forward. Attack. Retreat. Or is it a trick? A ruse to draw out the opposition. Be watchful as one avenue closes another opens. Employ tactics and advance your aims while perplexing your rival.
Be mindful of time but do not grant a clock authority of your reason. Defend with vigor. A skilled advisory is beatable when his movements are restricted and his patterns are exposed. Tension grinds at the nerves. Emotion can weigh a man down or lift him in the air! ..." and so on.
19.45 / 13.45: Magnus Carlsen's workout on the basketball court might have been a good preparation for game five. To quote Bobby Fischer: "Chess is like basketball. You toss the ball around until you find an opening."
19.30 / 13.30: Game 5 will start in about half an hour. Carlsen plays with White and spectators wonder whether he will open with 1.e4 - as he did in game 3 - or 1.d4 - as he did in game 1. Or maybe he opts for an off-beat line such as 1.b3? Specators also wonder whether the last two games will have a psychological impact on the players - in both games Carlsen outplayed Karjakin and was close to winning but failed to convert.
11.14 Hamburg Time / 5.14 am New York Time:
Magnus Carlsen is working out, he is playing Basketball around the corner. Norwegian TV is on his heels again.
Fabio Caruana thinks 43...g4 was a clear-cut winning plan for Black in game No 4, and Daniel King had published that before in his commentary for Der Spiegel (in German). Very instructive video!
Our commentator @DanielKingChess had the same idea (...43g4) in his explanations for @SPIEGEL_Sport https://t.co/HhmJ1JxWkZ #CarlsenKarjakin https://t.co/bUf4ttjO4K
— ChessBase (@ChessBase) November 17, 2016
So 42...Bd5 43.g3 g4!! probably would have won for Carlsen in the 4th game, but not easy to find and convert the advantage #CarlsenKarjakin
— Fabiano Caruana (@FabianoCaruana) November 17, 2016
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