Smartypants Chess's video: An Epic Clash In The Magnus Carlsen vs Hikaru Nakamura Rivalry

The year is 2011, it's the Tata Steel Wijk aan Zee tournament and Hikaru decides to play a Sicilian Najdorf against our boy Magnus. This was a lovely game by the World Champion where he played a less known set up and hit out at black with the move g4. Black tried to get an attack going on the queenside but White's attack was too fast and Magnus came up with a very nice Bishop sacrifice to clinch the game with a quick array of tactics. You can view the game here: https://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1604495 Magnus Carlsen vs Hikaru Nakamura "Nak'd Out" (game of the day Jun-14-2017) Tata Steel Group A (2011), Wijk aan Zee NED, rd 8, Jan-23 Sicilian Defense: Najdorf. Opocensky Variation (B92) · 1-0 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 a6 6.Be2 e5 7.Nb3 Be7 8.Be3 O-O 9.g4 Be6 10.g5 Nfd7 11.h4 Nb6 12.Qd2 N8d7 13.f4 exf4 14.Bxf4 Ne5 15.O-O-O Rc8 16.Kb1 Qc7 17.h5 Rfe8 18.Ka1 Bf8 19.Nd4 Qc5 20.g6 Nec4 21.Bxc4 Nxc4 22.Qd3 fxg6 23.hxg6 h6 24.Qg3 Qb6 25.Bc1 Qa5 26.Rdf1 Ne5 27.Nd5 Bxd5 28.exd5 Qxd5 29.Bxh6 gxh6 30.g7 Be7 31.Rxh6 Nf7 32.Qg6 Nxh6 33.Qxh6 Bf6 34.Qh8+ Kf7 35.g8=Q+ Rxg8 36.Qxf6+ Ke8 37.Re1+ 1-0 Add me on chess.com https://www.chess.com/member/smartypantschess Add me on lichess https://lichess.org/@/smartypantschess If you have a game you'd like me to commentate on let me know! Perhaps it's a well known game or one of your own. Whatever the game let me know in the comments below! INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/smartypantschess/