Carlsen rules

Submitted by mis3u on Thu, 07/02/2009 at 1:38pm.

Dortmund tournament just started today and Magnus Carlsen won his first game against Russia's top rated player Dmitry Jakovenko in the Ruy Lopez Berlin. One of the things I like about Magnus is that he's different from many GMs who just want to keep it safe and go for a draw, shake hands, take the money and go home. No, he won't take a draw offer and will be looking for his chances, just like in this game, he will just try to squeeze the win till the end. Hopefully he'll be a world champion someday.

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by Wilsonia - 4 months ago
Bognor Regis, Sussex England

Member Since: Nov 2007
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"All of the players in the Sparkassen GM tournament seemed fazed by the temperature and all three games ended in more or less rapid draws."

So according to ChessBase, the heatwave in Germany was to blame for the lack of excitement today. Hmm (:

Bacrot - Jakovenko was another Berlin Wall where white deviated from Carlsen's victorious round 1 game with 11.Bf4. One wonders whether Jako has some improvement in store. I guess we don't know yet but I'd quite like to see Magnus beat Jako's Berlin too. :D