Playing against type

What do you do when you feel you are no longer improving? One idea is to study something that is the complete opposite of what you have been working on up until now. The reasoning behind this is to find big improvement in new areas, rather than small improvement in something you already know.
Certainly this seems to be working for me at the moment, as I am studying some of the positional classics from the 1920's and 30's. But rather than show one my my imperfect games, I'm choosing a game from someone who seems to be going in the other direction.
In recent years Magnus Carlsen has been content to target small weaknesses in his opponents position, and then grind out a win. However this strategy ran into a brick wall during his World Championship Match against Fabiano Caruana. Possibly as a reaction to this, he has played more dynamic chess at the Gashimov Memorial, and has been reqraded with another strong tournament performance. The stand out game from this event was the following attacking win over Anish Giri. It is worth pointing out that Giri himself also played an atypical game, taking the pawn on e3, and allowing Carlsen to launch a strong, and eventually winning attack.


Carlsen,M (2845) - Giri,A (2797) [A29]
Vugar Gashimov Mem 2019 Shamkir AZE (7), 07.04.2019

1. c4 e5 2. Nc3 Nf6 3. Nf3 Nc6 4. g3 d5 5. cxd5 Nxd5 6. Bg2 Bc5 7. O-O O-O 8. d3 h6 9. Nxd5 Qxd5 10. a3 a5 11. Bd2 Qe6 12. Rc1 Qe7 13. Bc3 Nd4 14. e3 Nxf3+ 15. Qxf3 Bd6 16. Qh5 c6 17. f4 exf4 18. gxf4 Qxe3+ 19. Kh1 Rd8 20. Rce1 Qc5 21. f5 Bf8 22. Be4 Rd5 23. Rf3 b5 24. Rg1 Ra7 25. Bf6 g6 26. Qh3 Rd6 27. Qh4 Rxf6 28. Qxf6 Be7 29. Qxc6 Qxc6 30. Bxc6 Kg7 31. fxg6 fxg6 32. d4 a4 33. d5 b4 34. Be8 Bg5 35. h4 Bxh4 36. Rxg6+ Kh7 37. Rc6 Bg4 38. Rf4 Rg7 1-0