Jacob is extra busy these last few days; on top of finishing some books and training people all over the world, he is going live on YouTube for a quick view on the games of the day in the ongoing Candidates tournament.
You can see here the scheduled times, here the videos, and here the analysis in replayable format. For those who prefer paper, boards, and pieces, John Hartman from uschess.org has created pdf versions.
Thanks for these analysis, they are book worthy.
For the twelfth installment of his “Candidates Game of the Day” series, GM Jacob Aagaard has analyzed GM Fabiano Caruana’s heartbreaking loss to GM Anish Giri as only he could – deeply, extensively, definitively. This is the analysis that the experts will be quoting tomorrow, and it is exclusively at Chess Life Online.
https://new.uschess.org/news/aagaard-candidates-round-12
Thanks again for these. For the first round game, the pgn viewer at bottom of page doesn’t work, correctly, and the pgn is corrupted when attempt to download. The analysis on other parts of the page is fine.
I have notified John
@John Christopher Simmons – You can fix the downloaded pgn. Right-click and open it in a plain-text editor (e.g. notepad on Windows). Delete some lines:
(1) At the top delete the line with [pgn]524dd380871f60b780c953b195a579cd[/pgn]
Save and close.
The corrected pgn is 5,981 characters so if I posted it here it would take three comments and you would still have to edit the file to put it back together.
Oh actually I was fixing the round 12 game, the round 1 game has additional problems, in certain places it is missing some spaces between moves. The pgn parsers think the joined moves are illegal. Not hard to fix but very hard to describe all the fixes accurately here.
Giri vs Nepomniatchi from round 1, corrected pgn is here:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1S_v8jKr6wVaA622CucOT5IOEpemI_h36/view?usp=sharing
These were really nice, but guess done for other reasons than this blog, and just a nice bonus for here. Somehow the 2022 candidates seem much more low key though, the previous one was quite an event at the beginning of the covid crisis. It was almost like back in days of Fischer match.. Maybe I am going to far, and it is just my own strange impression.
@John Christopher Simmons
I thought it was a disappointment. Most of the players were below usual level for various reasons. I hope the next one will see many young players break through.