Big escape by Carlsen at Grenke Chess (Analysis)
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Round 5 results
Anand, Viswanathan - Caruana, Fabiano ½-½
Hou, Yifan - Vitiugov, Nikita ½-½
Meier, Georg - Carlsen, Magnus ½-½
Naiditsch, Arkadij - Bluebaum, Matthias ½-½
Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime - Aronian, Levon ½-½
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In this position above, the game would have been over if white played 39. Rh5 Qf740. Rxh7+ Kxh7 41. Rh1+ Kg8 42. Be6 +- or 39. Rh5 Qe7 40. Rxh7+ Kxh7 41. Rh1+ Kg8 42. Be6+ Rff7 43. Rh6 +-
