Sixteen year-old Magnus Carson of Norway recently finished the Morelia/Linares Super GM Tournament in second place trailing only Indian Grandmaster Viswanathan Anand. In the course of this tournament, Carlsen defeated Alexander Morozevich in a riviting game in which he queened two pawns and threatened to queen another before forcing his opponent to resign. This game is worthy of the deepest study and, at the same time, it is really just fun to play through. We bring you the game with annotations by GM Mihail Marin courtsy of ChessBase.com as well as some biographical information on the Wonderboy from Norway.
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