This month we present a lightly edited excerpt from Chess Evolution Newsletter #143. CEWN is released every Friday of the week, the newsletter contains twenty-plus pages of great chess material written by top grandmasters Arkadij Naiditsch and Csaba Balogh. Magnus Carlsen was Very, Very Lucky! by Arkadij Naiditsch Carlsen,Magnus (2863) - Anand,Viswanathan (2792) WCh 2014 Sochi RUS (6), 15.11.2014 Sicilian Kan [B41] We often hear people say that World Champions never blunder. In fact, World Champions blunder very rarely and even more rarely a one-move tactic. And what is even more rare is that after a blunder the opponent doesn't use the mistake, and this is precisely the case … [Read more...]