Smartypants Chess's video: Taking Out 2700s With Ease Magnus Carlsen vs Wang Hao Tata Steel Group A 2011

A strong game from both sides but Magnus came up with a brilliant sacrifice. It must have taken a lot of calculation to make sure the variations worked. https://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1604594 Magnus Carlsen vs Wang Hao Tata Steel Group A (2011), Wijk aan Zee NED, rd 12, Jan-29 Caro-Kann Defense: Advance Variation (B12) · 1-0 1. e4 c6 2. d4 d5 3. e5 Bf5 4. Be3 e6 5. Nd2 Nd7 6. Ngf3 Bg6 7. Be2 Ne7 8. Nh4 c5 9. c3 Nc6 10. Nxg6 hxg6 11. Nf3 Rc8 12. O-O a6 13. g3 Be7 14. h4 b5 15. a4 Qb6 16. axb5 axb5 17. Kg2 c4 18. Ng5 Qd8 19. Bg4 Bxg5 20. Bxg5 Qc7 21. Rh1 Nb6 22. h5 gxh5 23. Bxh5 Na4 24. Bxf7+ Kxf7 25. Qf3+ Kg8 26. Rxh8+ Kxh8 27. Rh1+ Kg8 28. Qh5 Rf8 29. Bf6 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/