1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Ba4 Nf6 5.O-O Be7 {Carlsen knows that Open variation has been refuted ca. 17 times in different branches and now is being played only at club level.} 6.d3 {6. Qe2 was popular and even fancy til midt 1990's, when it became clear that Black has latent advantage, due unstoppable ...d5 in some period of game.} b5 7.Bb3
d6 {7....Bc5 gives more lively game, but Carlsen wanted dead not life to this game.} 8.a3 O-O 9.Nc3 Be6 {Karjakin must have prepared something poisoneous for 9...Na5, which was Carlsen;s favourite move... until this game!} 10.Nd5 Nd4 {Creates drawish intertweened pawns, as a shark bites other shark.} 11.Nxd4 exd4 12.Nxf6+ Bxf6 13.Bxe6 fxe6 14.f4 {Karjakin played this out of desperation. This move should mean "attack! avanti!", but in fact is just club level smoke scare scrow} c5 {This levels everything up.} 15.Qg4 Qd7 16.f5 {Admit: you would move 16. Rf3 with idea Rh3, wouldn't ya?! Well, this is well answered by 16. ...c4. So Karjakin did not make a mistake here.} Rae8 17.Bd2 c4 18.h3 c3
19.bxc3 d5 20.Bg5 Bxg5 21.Qxg5 {Karjakin hereby admits he can't do anything more. The rest was played just because neither of players wanted to offer draw first.} e4 22.fxe6 Rxf1+ 23.Rxf1 Qxe6
24.cxd4 e3 25.Re1 h6 26.Qh5 e2 27.Qf3 a5 28.c3 Qa2 29.Qc6 Re6
30.Qc8+ Kh7 31.c4 Qd2 32.Qxe6 Qxe1+ 33.Kh2 Qf2 34.Qe4+
