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Best game with excellent analysis, thanks 🎉🎉❤

thank you for doing the analysis and posting it for us.

In round 13 it's also worth mentioning the SUPERB positional victory of Caruana over Pragg. Thank you Robert! 👍 Marco EarlyJaques

Hmmm, well, examining the diagonal that was available to Ian at around 10.37, it seems that the threat would be dangerous enough to warrant the creation of a draw. So, if Hikaru evaluated all of this during those 30 minutes (and he probably did) then yeah, it was probably the better move and the draw outcome was fair because both sides had crazy hits against one another perhaps best left for another match. Many thanks for your insight Robert 😊

Thank you for this game review and your analysis of the opportunities. That's what I came here for. I knew that you could be relied to deliver a detailed analysis. I was most interested in your views of the game at 10:37 because I was watching this part develop in real time, and like you F4 for the knight came to mind - but to me, F4 was a better move than rook D8 ... Hikaru paused for about 30 minutes before making rook D8, and I saw that move before I saw F4 - I expected Ian to back up his pawn with his bishop ruining the momentum ... With F4 and the immediate threat of checkmate, the main move for Ian would be pawn to G3, weakening his king's position, and after that, Hikaru could take that pawn with the knight on F4 to reinstall the bishop's diagonal, meanwhile, only white's queen could trouble the knight - would Ian have taken Hikaru's knight with his queen? Probably not. Hikaru could probably have moved his knight back to F4 after taking the pawn, to add tension and to maintain the existing tension - white's G3 pawn could not take the F4 knight in that situation because of a pin ... In the mix of all of that, Ian could resign or Hikaru could develop the checkmate ... My issue is, was Hikaru smart enough to see this I have explained? And my answer is, Absolutely. On comparison, if Carlsen had developed this situation, it would have been a swift victory for black. So, we are left to speculate on the factors that created this draw, and I am sure that Ian was delighted with the outcome.

2:55 Interestingly no commentator even mentions what happens after the pawn grab with B:c6 d:c6; I would assume play could continue with N:e5 N:e5, d:e5 Q:d1, R:d1 Bg4, with compensation?! - Not everybody is a top GM, so taking such lines for totally granted in an educational video is a bit much.More so than not shoving a mate in 3, imo.