Featured is an excellent game from the 2025 Champions Chess Tour Chessable Masters Playoffs Quarterfinals game 1 between Magnus Carlsen and Yu Yangyi. Out of a London System, Yu’s approach is to play Bg4. Carlsen responds with a pawn storm on the kingside which establishes a lasting space advantage. In Carlsen’s first 7 moves, 6 of them are with the pawns. The final position is our reminder that even in a simplified endgame, an Alpha Zero pawn can still be deadly! This 10+0 rapid game was played on February 18th, 2025.
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Image of Magnus Carlsen by Lennart Ootes
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1. d4 Nf6 2. Bf4 d5 3. e3 Bg4 4. f3 Bh5 5. g4 Bg6 6. h4 h5 7. g5 Nfd7 8. Bd3 Bxd3 9. Qxd3 e6 10. g6 f6 11. Ne2 c5 12. c4 Nb6 13. cxd5 c4 14. Qe4 Qxd5 15. Nbc3 Qxe4 16. fxe4 Nc6 17. Bc7 Nb4 18. Nf4 Kd7 19. Bxb6 axb6 20. Ke2 Bd6 21. a3 Bxf4 22. axb4 Bd6 23. b5 Bb4 24. Na4 Ba5 25. Rac1 Rac8 26. Rc2 Rh6 27. Rhc1 c3 28. b4 Rc4 29. bxa5 Rxa4 30. Rxc3 Rxa5 31. e5 fxe5 32. dxe5