Carlsen wins Norway Chess for the seventh time - 10

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Magnus Carlsen won the Norway Chess tournament for the seventh time in thirteen outings. Carlsen set up the result with a round 9 grind against Fabiano Caruana. Carlsen was a pawn up but whilst the engine said that initially Caruana should hold, in practice it was beyond him. In the final round Carlsen was put under pressure by Arjun Erigaisi, bailed out with a Queen sacrifice, looked in trouble, turned it around to be winning before finally settling for a draw in time trouble. That result guaranteed Carlsen at least a tie-break for first place and after Gukesh lost it won him the tournament. When all the other games had finished Erigaisi beat him in their Armageddon tie-break. Going into the final round Gukesh was just behind Carlsen and had black against Fabiano Caruana. Gukesh was gradually outplayed and dead lost for a long time, then towards the end he pulled back to equality, only to blunder for a final time, costing him a chance at first. Gukesh scored 4.5/5 with white but only 0.5/5 with black, a strange disparity. He also had far too many bad postions, although his ability to play them is impressive. I don't doubt there's still a lot of improvement to come. Second place went to Fabiano Caruana after his win over Gukesh. Caruana's play is still a bit patchy but he's a derserved world number 4 and definitely is entitled to think he can win a candidates and a world champonship.

Source: https://theweekinchess.com/twic-news-fe ... venth-time