Hikaru Nakamura beats Magnus Carlsen in Bilbao (GAME ANALYSIS)

Hikaru Nakamura starts with a fabulous game against World Champion Magnus Carlsen in the opening round in Bilbao. He played a Scicilian Defence against which Carlsen started with unusual 2.Ne2 line . However , earlier Carlsen has played this in his career .

35...e5!!

This is a fabulous breakthrough . Nakamura had many chances to push the game to endgame with a pawn up or slight edge at many occasions,he avoided that . Nakamura concentrated on the fact that Carlsen being an endgame expert may escape from losing the game even if he gets a small chance .

The idea of 35...e5 !! is bringing the rook to g6 making it worse for white King. 

Carlsen replied ...

36.Qg3 Rg6 37.Kh2 e*f4 

38.Q*f4 Qh5+ 39.Kg1 Qd1 

40.Kh2 Qh5+ 41.Kg1 N*g5 

42.Qb8+ Kg7 43.Qe5+ Kh6

44.Qf4 Qd1+ 45.Kh2 Qd4 

46.b4 Kg7 47.Qc7+ Kh8

48.Qc8+ Rg8 49.Q*f5 Nf3+ 

50.Kh3 Qd6 0-1 

Please find a better move other than Qd6 which can mate white King in next 5 moves !!

Magnus Carlsen slips from Rank No.1

It was a big surprise when July 16 Blitz rating was published . Ding Liren of China is new World No.1 in Blitz Chess . The interesting part is that Ding Liren didn't play any Blitz Chess in last month and even without any rating hike he became World No.1 with 2875 elo. On the other hand Magnus Carlsen lost 42 elo and finished 2 points behind Ding Liren at 2873 elo . Hikaru Nakamura of USA also lost his elo in Blitz to finish at 2842 . Earlier Nakamura was on 2883 which was helpful for Ding Liren to become World No.1 in Blitz Chess.

Carlsen is expected to start his World Championship Preparations

It is said that Carlsen is bit more serious about upcoming World Championship Match to be held in US in November . It may be because in previous two World Championships in which he played against Vishy Anand ,the openings were almost familiar for both . But against Karjakin he has different opening strategies . Carlsen has played French Defence as black against Karjakin in previous encounters ,whereas against Anand he would have never even thought to play it. On the other hand as white there is a possibility of Karjakin troubling Carlsen with Queens Indian Defence which is highly strategical and requires more time to analyse . Last two World Championship s between Anand and Carlsen had many Ruy Lopez variations whereas this time it could be very rare . However Carlsen s opening preparation s are expected to be simply to aquire equality with black, as with white pieces he has upper hand of playing many type of openings at its best . He is an expert over 1d4 or 1.e4 or 1. c4 or even 1.Nf3 .
         Magnus Carlsen vs Sergey Karjakin
             World Blitz Championship 2015

Black to play 

Magnus Carlsen played London System with white side and Karjakin crushes his ideas in Blitz game . Karjakin played 1...Re6 after which game ended in favour of black . 

The possible continuation is 2.Nc7 Rc6 ! after which white loses knight and following mate threat by putting the rook at 1st rank !! 

Magnus Carlson waiting for the Challenger

It will a great excitement in World Chess when it will be decided that who will play against GM Magnus Carlsen in the World Chess Championship 2016 .Magnus Carlsen is reigning World Champion and World no.1 in FIDE rating list for very long . For past few years no one from Chess World has really shown up a Challenging tour against Magnus. Currently the World Championship Candidates 2016 is happening in Moscow with the best possible players from World to get the match ticket to play against Magnus Carlsen in World Chess Championship 2016 . Till date 12th round is finished and every round has shown the uprise and downfall almost all the Candidates. Fabiano Caruana USA  and Sergy Karjakin Russia are the table leaders followed by Vishvanathan Anand of INDIA just half a point down . Please keep tuned on this page as there will be a expert discussion after the results of penultimate rounds are finished .