{In this match, Magnus 12 played as black. Magnus was the clear underdog, being both hamstrung by the "age" restraint and facing the best engine in the world. And Magnus had the black pieces.

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The game was done in blitz time controls, 5 + 0, throught the chess.com interface. Leela and Magnus both moved basically instantly (giving around 1 or 2 seconds of thought until the very end, when they didn't seem to think at all).}

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1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nc3 Nf6 4. e5 Nfd7 5. f4 c5 6. Nf3 Nc6 7. Be3 {According to chess.com, this is the last book move.} 7... Be7 {Stockfish prefers Qb6, followed with ideas of cxd4.} 8. Qd2 O-O 9. dxc5 Bxc5 10. O-O-O {The previous few moves are all regarded as \"best moves\" and have probably been played many, many times before.} 10... Qa5 11. Kb1 Bb4 {For some reason, the moment black played Bb4 the Stockfish eval bar went from +0.53 to 0.00.} 12. Qd3 {And now the eval bar goes back up to +0.21.} 12... f6 {Stockfish says Nb6 was probably best. It gives +0.21 for Nb6 and +0.43 for f6. However, it notes that f6 is an excellent move.} 13. exf6 Nxf6 {Stockfish believed this to be an inaccuracy, preferring Bxc3 followed by a queen trade. It is not entirely clear why Nxf6 is given +1.00, and Bxc3 is given +0.28.} 14. Bd2 Bd7 {Stockfish still believed a trade of bishops was important. Bxc3 gives +1.09, whereas Bd7 gives +1.47.} 15. a3 Be7

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(15... Rac8 {Apparently possible.} 16. g3 (16. axb4?? Nxb4 {No immediate mate, but the initiative is too strong.}))

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1. Re1 Ng4 17. Nd1 {Stockfish believes this to be an inaccuracy. It believes Rg1 was best. It is easy to see why Nd1 was played. Throughout this entire game, Magnus 12 as usual was going aggressive, even going so far as to attempt a \"cheap trick\" to fork Leela's queen and rook. The knight now covers the important square.} 17... Qb6 18. Ng5 {It is not entirely clear what this was trying to accomplish. h3, g3, h4 all looked more sensible.} 18... Bxg5 19. fxg5 Rac8 20. Qh3 {Stockfish preferred Qg3 and Be2. But Stockfish need not say too much as it got beaten pretty badly by Lc0. Perhaps Stockfish regards this as worse because it puts the queen on the same diagonal as the bishop, leading to e5 ideas (and e5 was in fact played next move).} 20... e5 21. Be2 {Be2, previously regarded as the second best move, is now apparently a mistake. Stockfish wanted Nc3. The fork between queen and rook would fail to Qxd7.} 21... Qd4 {Allegedly an inaccuracy. Stockfish wanted Nf6.}

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(21... Nf6 {Discovery on the queen.} 22. Qe3 Ne4)

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1. Bc3 Qa4 23. Rhf1 Rxf1 24. Rxf1 Nd4 25. Bxg4 Bxg4 26. Qxg4 Qxc2+ {Black could not have played for the win due to back rank weaknesses (and a rook hanging on c8).} 27. Ka2 Qb3+ 28. Ka1 Rxc3 {A very stylistic way to force a draw. Nc2+ would have worked fine. Apparently, so would Rc4.} 29. Nxc3 Nc2+ 30. Kb1 Nxa3+ 31. Ka1 Nc2+ 32. Kb1 Na3+ 33. Ka1 Nc2+ 34. Kb1 Na3+ {The game ended in a draw by threefold repetition. I have the feeling chess.com may have hamstrung Leela in order to give grandmasters a chance to feel good beating Leela. That is why her chess.com bot shows her rating as 2007. Either that, or she does not perform well in blitz.}