The Grandmaster
The Queen Sacrifice
Carlsen vs. Karjakin · 2016
Game four of the tiebreak. The match score level, the world title within reach for either player. With seconds on the clock Magnus Carlsen played 50. Qh6+ — offering his queen to a king that could not take it and could not flee from what would follow. Sergey Karjakin resigned: ... gxh6 51. Rxh6 is mate, and any other reply loses immediately to Rxh7+. Carlsen retained the World Championship on his twenty-sixth birthday.
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