Fabiano Caruana’s Fantastic Victory Against Magnus Carlsen – 2014 Sinquefield Cup

November 17, 2018 NHaselton Chess Lectures

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In this video, RCA guest coach IM Asaf Givon has analysed a game between Magnus Carlsen and Fabiano Caruana in the 2014 Sinquefield Cup. In this game, Caruana showed a lot of character and played moves based on the key principles even when the moves played by Carlsen were intimidating. Caruana never got nervous; he kept cool, calculated everything and believed in his calculations.

This is believed to be Caruana’s one of the best performances, if not the best, as he won the tournament in a grand style – he finished with scoring 8.5/10 points, winning 7 games and only 3 games being drawn.

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