Pelletier could have moved his pawn to e4 and sacrificed his rook which would have led to him capturing Carlsen's rook anyways leading to a check.

that's what I though too, Mclovin, but why not 12...c5? it looks much better to my patzer eyes :)

diskamyl i think, and might not be the smartest reason, that Carlsen played         12. ... c6 to stop Nb5 since then white would have is bishop and knight on the c7 square i just thought of it as i was watching their game good question anyways

what happens after 41e4? The B may go back to g4 or h3, and white could then play his rooks to block the immediate checkmate e.g. if Bg4, then Re3. Though white may have resigned because after Bf3, RxB, QxR, and Qxe4, then the extra 2 pawns should guarantee a win. Good game overall

magnusficent carlsen!

it's almost in the bag biel championship for carlsen. The way this warrior kid is playing is almost unstoppable! Phenomenal genius...

Because Carlsen wins with Be4+

If Carlsen keeps this up, he might just be ahead of Vishy when the next rating list comes out, according to live rating he is only 1.5 points behind the #1 spot.

Tough for Onischuk, isn't rook vs rook and knight a theretical draw unless one side makes an error?

And the end of Carlsens game is beautiful to watch.

   It would be fitting if the game Dominguez - Onischuk was awarded game of the Biel tournament.  A tribute to man's indomitable spirit.  Yes, the machine generated endgame tablebases have reduced the endgame to a sterile field.  But this is a game between indomitable yet fallible human beings.  The outcome was uncertian and that is exciting.  What these two young men demonstrated is the epitome of what is best in all of us.  Games like this one reinstill in me the confidence that the younger generation of chess players still has the fighting will of the great classical players of the past. Even more so, today's generation didn't have the ever present knowledge that the machines have worked it all out.  In other words, the game is the embodiment of the old saying, "never give up!" 

We went to the Moon not because it was easy, but because it was hard.  Things worth doing are very hard to do.  And, we might fail, as we did with Apollo 13.  But we learn from our failures and press on.  Now, those same "steely eyed rocket men" are going to Mars.  When I see all the troubles in this world I am heartened by the thought, "we are going to the stars and we are taking our "infernal" machines with us".  And we will introduce our great game to other intelligent beings in the universe.

All those articles about the GM title not being what it used to be fade away for me after a game like this.  These 6 six young players came to Biel -- in the words of Mel Gibson in "Braveheart" -- 'I came to pick a fight'.  They are in the best Scottish tradition, "Warrior Poets".    

Maybe, starting next year they should rename it the "Bile Tournament".  

no no mr-knups...    carslen = batman!  (and not me,   the cool one)

in Carlsen's game, why did he play 12...c6? It's looks like the most counter-intuitive move on the board, and the logic behind it doesn't reveal itself in the following moves either (not to me at least).

has anybody figured it out?

Hard to believe Onischuk lost that ending...  

carlsen = badman