The game of the day will be game three of Match two where, despite losing the first game, Magnus bounced back in glorious style with a beautiful exchange sacrifice. He beat Hikaru and pretty much locked up the match.
But first, a warm-up: This is a position from the first game between Nakamura and Carlsen. Hikaru ended up winning this game but in this position, did the World Champion overlook a brilliant shot?
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The Bombastic Bird’s – an energetic and exciting repertoire after 1.f4
Welcome to the Bombastic Bird’s, a revolutionary repertoire for one of the most enterprising and underrated openings in chess theory (1.f4). In this series, IM Lawrence Trent uncovers a number of groundbreaking theoretical novelties and new ideas that will soon have scorners of this romantic system regretting they ever doubted its soundness.
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