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Yes, at the end of rapid game #2. Computers and experts said that Carlsen had a clearly winning move earlier, but I'm not going to pretend I could see it before it was pointed out ...
 
I was watching the Chess24 stream with Peter Svidler as commentator, and he discovered the mating attack in game 4 a few minutes before it was played. As both Carlsen and Karjakin played the expected moves leading up to Rc8+, there was a lot of tension about whether Carlsen had seen it and whether he would dare play it (I saw a later analysis saying that if black plays ... Bf8 it's mate in something like eight moves, so that's some calculation even if it's fairly straightforward).

Edit: 49. Rc8+ Bf8 50. Rxf8+ Kxf8 51. Rxf7+ Ke8 52. Rf8+ Kd7 53. Qf7+ Kc6 54. Rc8+ Kb5 55. Qc4+ Ka5 56. Ra8#
 
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I was watching the Chess24 stream with Peter Svidler as commentator, and he discovered the mating attack in game 4 a few minutes before it was played. As both Carlsen and Karjakin played the expected moves leading up to Rc8+, there was a lot of tension about whether Carlsen had seen it and whether he would dare play it (I saw a later analysis saying that if black plays ... Bf8 it's mate in something like eight moves, so that's some calculation even if it's fairly straightforward).

Edit: 49. Rc8+ Bf8 50. Rxf8+ Kxf8 51. Rxf7+ Ke8 52. Rf8+ Kd7 53. Qf7+ Kc6 54. Rc8+ Kb5 55. Qc4+ Ka5 56. Ra8#
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Carlsen must have calculated that as well, because Bf8 was a quite obvious delaying move and I could not see how long it would take to mate after that. I wonder if Karjakin played Kh7 just to get it over with.
 
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