On Friday Carlsen had a near-miss against Aditya Mittal and on Saturday he found himself in deep trouble again against Erigaisi. “I thought my performance yesterday (Friday) was maybe the worst I’d played on one day on the Tour… Today (Saturday) wasn’t great either, but it was a little bit better,” said Carlsen. The young Indian star went on to close out the win.Ĭontrary to the anti-climactic Julius Baer Generation Cup final where Erigaisi virtually collapsed against the world champion, the Indian stayed cool and calm on Saturday.Įrigaisi said afterward, “That (the win) felt really good, I was really happy with the game.”Ĭarlsen, playing from a log cabin in Are, Sweden, immediately bounced back to beat Erigaisi’s fellow Indian Vidit Gujrathi in Round 8 and end the day in joint-second on 16/24 with the exciting Azerbaijani Shakrhiyar Mamedyarov. The shock defeat happened in Round 7 with Erigaisi breaking through with the brilliant 27.Qf7+ counter-attack, bravely ignoring Carlsen’s apparent queen and rook threat down the b-file. It was sweet revenge for Erigaisi who had lost to Carlsen in the Julius Baer Generation Cup final and earned his first victory against the world No. Judit Polgar v Magnus Carlsen, Madrid 2022ġ e4 c5 2 Nf3 e6 3 d4 cxd4 4 Nxd4 Nc6 5 Nc3 a6 6 Be3 Qc7 7 Qd2 Nf6 8 f3 Be7 9 0-0-0 b5 10 g4 Nxd4 11 Bxd4 Bb7 12 e5 Nxg4 13 Rg1 Nh6 14 Bd3 Bf8 15 Be4 Rc8? 16 Bb6! Bxe4 17 Bxc7 Bc6 18 Bd6 Nf5 19 Ne4 1-0ģ823 1.h5+! 2 Kxh5 Qe5+ 3 Kg4 f5+ 4 Kg5 f4+ 5 Kg4 Qf5 mate.Indian young gun, 19-year-old Arjun Erigaisi inflicted a crushing defeat on world chess champion Magnus Carlsen in Round 7, leaving the Norwegian in a spot of bother in the USD 150,000 Aimchess Rapid - round five of the Meltwater Champions Chess Tour. Judit Polgar was widely praised for her Candidates commentaries on, and the all-time No 1 woman had another vintage moment, captured in an enjoyable video, when she met Carlsen in an informal blitz game in a park during the Norwegian’s flying visit to Madrid. So will Magnus play Nepo again, or will he give up the world title and aim to secure his legacy by reaching his personal Everest of 2900 rating points? The debate continues … A Nepo v Naka match would have been available, with even a small eventual chance of the dream publicity pairing Carlsen v Nakamura, Sauron v Frodo. If Nakamura, the streamer with 1.4 million followers, had made the obvious drawing rook exchanges on the d file in Monday’s final round at Madrid instead of tilting into defeat against Ding, Fide’s negotiating position would have been hugely improved. If negotiations fail, a Nepomniachtchi v Ding match at Beijing-Moscow, or even Shanghai-Vladivostok like the 2020 women’s world championship, will be perceived as a poor substitute for a match featuring the charismatic Norwegian. New York 2016, London 2018 and Dubai 2021 all attracted large online viewing audiences, as did Madrid 2022 last week. A more relevant date may be 7 August, the day of the Fide presidential election in Chennai, when Arkady Dvorkovich’s main rival for a second term will be a ticket whose No 2 is Carlsen’s chief aide Peter-Heine Nielsen.įide needs Carlsen much more than Carlsen needs Fide. The governing body’s deadline seems early for a match which has as yet no financial sponsor for the €2m (£1.7m) prize fund, no venue, no match regulations, no player contracts and a starting date likely to be well into 2023. Such a format could enable a player to win the world title after just eight drawn classical games, followed by successful tie-breaks. One idea being floated is a tennis-style best-of-three-sets-of-four classical games each, where rapid and blitz would follow at 2-2. In 20, Carlsen finished level at 6-6 at classical against Sergey Karjakin and Fabiano Caruana, then trounced them both in the faster games. Clue: it’s mate in five by an all-checking sequence.Ĭarlsen wants the classical match format to be speeded up, even more than under existing rules that allow for rapid and blitz tie-breaks. 3823 Harmen Jonkman v Ian Nepomniachtchi, Wijk 2007.
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