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Carlsen lost to 16 year old FM?!

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We all know that Magnus is one of the greatest players of all time, but sometimes when he is not in the right mindset he can lose to much weaker opponents!

The game was played in the rapid world championship and Carlsen played against Shamsiddin Vokhidov. Their rating difference was 899 points! In the study it will not be such a large difference, because their classical ratings will be shown. Below is a study where you can follow along with the moves, let's begin! https://lichess.org/study/dP5mgRX7/jEDycz6B
1. e4 e5 2. Qh5 Nc6 Look, on move 2 Magnus makes Qh5 move to troll his opponent, but Vokhidov will punish Magnus for it! 3. Bc4 g6 4. Qf3 Qe7 Better move was Nf6 to develop knight 5. Ne2 Nf6 6. d3 Bg7 7. Nbc3 h6 not allowing Magnus to move Bg5 8. Nd5 Nxd5 9. exd5 Na5 The better move was Nd4 10. d6! cxd6
Great pawn sacrifice by Magnus and he has very strong blockade now and also queenside development is hard for Vokhidov 11. Bd5 Nc6 12. Bd2 Qf6 13. Qe4 O-O 14. O-O Ne7 15. Nc3 Qf5 After this move Vokhidov has problems with d6 pawn 16. Qb4 Nxd5 17. Nxd5 Kh7 Black has very big problems with development 18. Nc7 Rb8 19. Qxd6 b6 20. f3 Bb7 Magnus missed win after b6! Here he had killer move Ne8 and now rook needs to go to a8 and now we take g7 bishop, Kxg7 and now Bxh6! and we win that f8 rook! 21. Rae1 Rfc8 22. Bc3 Bf8 And Magnus made a move which loses the game and Vokhidov punished him! Now Magnus loses his knight. If Qxe5 we take Qxe5 and move d6 23. Nb5 Bxd6 Magnus gives his queen to Vokhidov and he is losing now! 24. Nxd6 Qe6 25. Nxc8 Rxc8 26. Rxe5 Qd6 27. Rfe1 Bd5 28. a4 Be6 29. a5 bxa5 30. Kf1 Rc5 31. Rxc5 Qxc5 32. Ra1 d5 33. Rxa5 Qc7 34. Ra4 Qxh2 35. Rxa7 Qh1+ 36. Kf2 d4 Here Magnus resigned because after Bxd4 Qh5 Qe1 Kf4 g5#!
Great game by Vokhidov and in 2021 he already even has GM title!