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Magnus Carlsen's

Checkmates 21 Examples

edited by Bill Harvey

8/4/2015

Here are 21 checkmates from the games of World Chess Champion Magnus Carlsen. Find the winning moves. Solutions are found at the end of the pamphlet. Bill Harvey is the webmaster of wtharvey.com where you will find 10,000 chess puzzles from historic and modern games.

1) Magnus Carlsen vs Victor Hansen Helsinki, 2002

White mates in 4. 2) Magnus Carlsen vs Lorenz Drabke Budapest, 2003

White mates in 3. 3) Magnus Carlsen vs Hans Harestad Copenhagen, 2003

White mates in 3.

4) Magnus Carlsen vs Andre Diamant Halkidiki, 2003

White mates in 4. 5) Magnus Carlsen vs Helgi Gretarsson Rethymnon, 2003

White mates in 2. 6) Magnus Carlsen vs Geir Tallaksen Sandnes, 7/5/2005

White mates in 3.

7) Magnus Carlsen vs Atle Groenn Sandnes, 7/9/2005

White mates in 5. 8) Magnus Carlsen vs Zurab Azmaiparashvili Khanty Mansyisk, 11/29/2005

White mates in 2. 9) Magnus Carlsen vs Judit Polgar Bilbao, 10/19/2007

White mates in 3.

10) Magnus Carlsen vs Veselin Topalov Morelia/Linares, 3/4/2008

White mates in 4. 11) Magnus Carlsen vs Lenier Dominguez Sofia, 5/20/2009

White mates in 4. 12) Magnus Carlsen vs Vugar Gashimov Moscow, 11/17/2009

White mates in 2.

13) Magnus Carlsen vs Viswanathan Anand Zuerich, 1/29/2014

White mates in 3. 14) Magnus Carlsen vs LakeMonster Internet, 12/14/2014

White mates in 4. 15) Magnus Carlsen vs Rainn Wilson Internet, 12/14/2014

White mates in 4.

16) Jon Ludvig Hammer vs Magnus Carlsen Halkidiki, 2003

Black mates in 2. 17) Viktor Laznicka vs Magnus Carlsen Internet, 12/21/2005

Black mates in 3. 18) Kjetil Stokke vs Magnus Carlsen Oslo, 6/8/2006

Black mates in 2.

19) Dmitry Andreikin vs Magnus Carlsen Moscow, 11/18/2010

Black mates in 4. 20) Fabiano Caruana vs Magnus Carlsen Moscow, 6/12/2013

Black mates in 5. 21) Norway vs Magnus Carlsen Oslo, 11/30/2014

Black mates in 3.

1) 1.Qd4+ if 1...Kxg6 2.Qg4+ 2) 1.Bxe6+ 3) 1.Qxg5+ fxg5 2.Rf7+ Kxh6 3.Rxh7# 4) 1.Rd8+ Qg8 2.bxc7 5) 1.Bg6+ 6) 1.Qg7+ Kf5 2.g4+ 7) 1.Rf7+ if 1...Kxe6 2.Qc4# or if 1...Kd8 2.Rd7+ Ke8 3.Rxa7+ 8) 1.Rg8+ 9) 1.Nf5 10) 1.Bg5 Ne7 2.Qxe7+ Kg8 3.Bh6 11) 1.Rg7+ Kd6 2.Qf8+ 12) 1.Qh7+ 13) 1.Ne8+ Kg8 2.Qxe6+ 14) 1.Nf5 Kh8 2.Qh6 Rg8 3.Qxf6+ 15) 1.Re8+ Rxe8 2.Qxe8+ Kc7 3.Ne6+ 16) 1...Qh5+ 17) 1...Qxf1+ 18) 1...Rh1+ 19) 1....Qg1+ if 2.Kh4 Qxh2+ 20) 1...Bf2+ 2.Kxf2 Rc2+ 21) 1...Rd3+