9/2/2023 – Magnus Carlsen won the winners’ final of the Julius Baer Generation Cup with a smooth 3-0 victory over Alireza Firouzja. The Norwegian has thus reached the Grand Final set to take place on Sunday. His opponent will be the winner of the losers’ bracket, where Denis Lazavik and Nodirbek Abdusattorov will first play in the semifinals on Saturday; the winner will then face Firouzja.
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Carlen reaches the Grand Final
Wesley So and Fabiano Caruana were eliminated on Friday. Both lost their respective matches in the losers’ bracket, both in Armageddon deciders: So lost to Denis Lazavik, Caruana lost to Nodirbek Abdusattorov.
Magnus Carlsen had a 2-0 lead over Alireza Firouzja, which meant the youngster was under pressure to win at all costs in the third game. Things did not go well for the French representative.
In this position Firouzja went off the rails when he took back in the wrong way. He was probably even aware of that, but on the other hand, given the necessity to win, it almost didn't matter.12...fxe6?!This cements a powerful white superiority on the kingside.After12...Bxe613.0-00-014.Ng5Bc8=Black can defend with f7-f6.13.0-00-0He now also castles into this white superiority. But was there an alternative?14.Ng5Stronger, for obvious reasons, was to start with14.a3!14...Qe8?!With14...Rf5!Black would have been able to get back on track to some extent here.15.Rxf5exf516.a3h617.Nh3g5White is still in control, but will not get a breakthrough any time soon.15.Bg4Here the line15.Rxf8+Bxf816.Rf1suggests itself.15...b416.Ne2Rxf1+17.Rxf1c318.bxc3
18...Qg6?This is not possible at all.18...Nc419.Qd3Qg6±with chances to defend, which Firouzja could not use in his situation.19.h4This is also promising.19.Ng3!wins. For example:Bxg5Probably the best defence against Bh5.20.Bxg5h621.Qf4!Qxg522.Qf7+Kh723.Be2+-This bishop is really strong - not least because of 12...fxe6.19...Nc420.Qc1bxc321.Nf4Qh622.Ngxe6Qxh423.Nxd5
Fascinating: the knights have completely conquered the black centre.23...Bd724.Bf5Stronger was24.Rf4+-24...Ba325.Qe125.Qd1!25...Qxe126.Rxe1Rb827.Nxg7Kxg728.Bxd7Nxe329.Nxe3Nxd430.Nf5+30.Kh2!30...Nxf531.Bxf5
Carlsen was a bit lax in his handling of the game and was probably no longer in a winning position.31...Rb232.Rd1Rxa232...Be733.Kf2a533...Be7!34.Rd7+Kh635.Kf3Kg536.g4Bf837.Rxh7Bh638.e61–0
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