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How seemingly winning Chess moves can backfire! : Hikaru Nakamura vs Magnus Carlsen - Zurich 2014

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Instructive game tags: Dramatic game, Losing from jaws of victory, Swindle, Super-GM Swindle, chess swindle, Carlsen Lucky, Luck in chess, Carlsen's luckiest game, a good player is always lucky, famous chess swindle, outrageous swindle, Shocking swindle, epic swindle, amazing swindle, surprising swindle, instructive chess swindle. Nakamura swindled, Shocking loss from winning position, giving opponent activity, playing only losing moves, finding only losing moves, backfiring, tactical backfire, opponent close to zugzwang, losing from completely winning position, nearly every move winning but losing, ego wound, wounding one's style, psychological blow, Fantastic attacking position blown, Blowing a fantastic position, seemingly winning move, tempting but losing move, resourceful opponent, massive threat creation backfire, knight sac, shocking knight sacrifice, forcing only move, only move start of comeback, only move can swindle, weak back row, king safety issue, king safety on trial, two tempting moves in row, shell-shocking position, amazing check sequence, shocking checks, shocking check possibilities, outrageous checking possibilities, shocking swindle position, swindle from playing very tempting moves, don't allow checks, checks cause chaos, checks are very difficult to calculate, even forcing moves are difficult to calculate [Event "Zurich Chess Challenge"] [Site "0:15:33-0:27:33"] [Date "2014.02.01"] [EventDate "2014.01.29"] [Round "3"] [Result "0-1"] [White "Nakamura"] [Black "Carlsen"] [ECO "E20"] [WhiteElo "?"] [BlackElo "?"] [PlyCount "2"] 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Bb4 4.f3 d5 5.a3 Be7 6.e4 dxe4 7.fxe4 e5 8.d5 Bc5 9.Bg5 O-O 10.Nf3 Bg4 11.h3 Bxf3 12.Qxf3 Nbd7 13.O-O-O Bd4 14.Ne2 c5 15.g4 a5 16.Kb1 Ra6 17.Ng3 g6 18.h4 a4 19.Rh2 Qa5 20.Bd2 Qc7 21.g5 Ne8 22.h5 Rb6 23.Bc1 Rb3 24.Qg4 Nb6 25.Be2 Nd6 26.Rdh1 Bxb2 27.Bxb2 Nbxc4 28.Bxc4 Nxc4 29.hxg6 Qb6 30.g7 Rd8 31.Qh4 Rxb2+ 32.Ka1 Rxh2 33.Rxh2 Qg6 34.Nf5 Re8 35.Qg4 Qb6 36.Qh3 Qg6 37.d6 Nxd6 38.Nxd6 Rd8 39.Nc4 Qxe4 40.Qh5 Rd3 41.Rh4 Qf5 42.Qe2 b5 43.Nd2 Qxg5 44.Qxd3 Qxh4 45.Ne4 Kxg7 46.Qf3 Qf4 47.Qg2+ Kf8 48.Kb2 h5 49.Nd2 h4 50.Kc2 b4 51.axb4 cxb4 52.Qa8+ Kg7 53.Qxa4 h3 54.Qb3 h2 55.Qd5 e4 56.Qh5 e3 57.Nf3 e2 58.Kb3 f6 59.Ne1 Qg3+ 60.Ka4 Qg1 61.Qxe2 Qa7+ 0-1 â–ºSupport the channel by donating via PayPal: http://goo.gl/7HJcDq â–ºPlaylists: http://goo.gl/FxpqEH â–ºKingscrusher's Greatest Hit Videos! : http://goo.gl/447QLb â–ºFREE online chess at http://www.chessworld.net/chessclubs/asplogin.asp?from=1053 or realtime at http://www.chessclub.com/from/kingscrusher Thumbnail Carlsen picture Magnus Carlsen: By GFHund (Own work) [CC BY-SA 4.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0)], via Wikimedia Commons Nakamura By Stefan64 (Own work) [GFDL (http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html) or CC BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)], via Wikimedia Commons

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