Magnus Carlsen vs Vincent Keymer- 3,5-2,5- the tiebreaker

The final game, the tie-breaker

Magnus Carlsen vs Vincent Keymer

Magnus Carlsen starts the game, with White, e4, a very normal move, Vincent responds with e5, and this is the moment where Magnus Carlsen moves Cf3 which his opponent responds with the move Cc6 and Magnus moves Bb5, if we notice Magnus makes the Spanish opening, which shows us the following image...

And then Vincent plays a6 moving the bishop (Vincent is playing the Murphy Variation), Magnus responds with Aa4 and then Black moves Nf6, d3 by Carlsen, then follows this with Bc5 taking out this piece before closing the passage with the pawn chain, by Magnus Bg5 pinning the knight, Vincent obviously realises this attack and decides to move h6, Ah4 and Vincent responds with a6 and Magnus decides to move d4 it seems silly and in fact it is something like that but it is necessary for Magnus to move that pawn to open the game, follow this and it is Vincent's turn to move d4, as we see in the following picture...

Black is played and Vincent eats the central pawn, i.e. moves to d4 (his pawn), Magnus replies with Nd4 and Vincent replies with Ad7 unpinning the knight, Magnus moves Bc6 and Vincent replies with c6, following the game Magnus moves Nc3 and then his opponent castles O-O, Magnus replies with Dd3 and Vincent with Bb4 and Magnus with Ce2 in case Vincent eats his knight, Vincent replies with De7 and Carlsen with long castling O-O-O and Vincent with Te8, Magnus with f3 and then De5, Magnus replies with a3 a half bad move as it weakens the castling and can give Black a trick, it was better to go on the attack with g4 this is an avalanche of pawns to the enemy king via the short castling, now the one who is wrong is Keymer here he had the tactical trick I mentioned before, the trick was to move Ce4 and White was supposed to play De5 because if he would eat the knight with the pawn on e4 Black would eat it with the queen and here White would lose the bishop or the knight, let's go back to the main variation where I said that the pawns eat Black's queen (De5) I would follow this with Te5 and if the opponent moves the pawn and eats the knight it would be much worse as he loses the pawn and the knight or the bishop, therefore Keymer misses the opportunity but well let's go back, Keymer moves Dc3 (I said it before, I am repeating), play continues with Nc3, eating the queen and it is Keymer's turn to move Ch7, play continues with g4, f6, h3, Nf8, Bg3, Ce6, h4, Rf7, h5 this move immobilises the pawns on the board, follow this with Td8, Te1, Bk8, Td3, Bb7, Nb1, c5, c4, Bk6, b3, Tb8, Bf2, Tb7, Nd2 as you can see this is a game of manoeuvres at the moment Magnus has twice as much time as Vincent, follow this up with Tb8, Ae3, Rg8, Rc2, Nd8, f4, a5, e5, f for e5, f by e5, Nf7, Bf4, d by e5, Ae5, a4, Ac3, a by b3 (check), Rb2, Te8, Rook by e8 (check), Bishop by e8, Rook by d5, Ac6, Rook by c5, Bd7, Bd4, Bishop by g4, Black wins a pawn but here White plays a4 and Magnus with this move continues with the progress to advance on the queenside, Ng5, Ae3, Cf3, Knight by f3, Bishop by f3, a5, Tb4, Bb2, Ta4, King by b3, Bd1 (check), Rc3, c6, Rd4, Bb3, Bb3, Bc3, and now the key move of the game Ag2 a big inaccuracy that gives White the absolute advantage this because the white rook only going to f5 prevents a Bf1 and Black could no longer press on the c4 pawn, After that Black should play Ae2 always keeping an eye on c4, now, back to the game, (Play Ag2 and then...)... now look at the following move Tf5 (!) as we see in the following picture...

Magnus sees the best move according to the machine, the idea in this move is to move the king to the queenside to accompany the advance of the pawn, this continues with Ah3, Tf4, Ae6, Rc5, Ta3 (??) things get worse for Keymer although his position was already losing, the game continues with Rb4, Ta2, Rb3, Te2, a6, a7, Te8, Te4 (! ) the only deviation move, Ta8, Te7, c5, Tb7, and already after this Vincent Keymer abandons the game, the reason is Tb8 provoking check making that the only move is Tb8 and White crowns the queen and ends the game, in this game Magnus Carlsen takes the victory and saves himself from being eliminated.

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