In the series of competitions organized by Magnus Carlsen, the reigning world champion won already the second victory. At the third stage the Norwegian lost a single match, already at the quarterfinal stage after meeting with the second number of a world rating by the American Fabiano Caruana, in the semifinal — with three Chinese Ding Liren in the final — with the Dutchman Anish Giri. Among the Russians, who had at the tournament the widest representation, then the rest of the semi — final — has managed to get Ian Nepomniachtchi.Collection of wins current world champion Magnus Carlsen in online chess tournaments continues to grow. On Saturday the Norwegian grandmaster involved in almost continuous series of competitions, won the third stage Magnus Carlsen Chess Tour. This victory for Carlsen is the fourth in recent months (he participated in five tournaments), is perhaps the most striking. Already at the quarterfinal stage, Carlsen faced a strong American grandmaster Fabiano Caruana, who in ranking is very tightly attached behind the champion. In the semi-final opponent is the Norwegian was Chinese Ding Liren, the third the classification number. Interestingly, with both of these world champion chess players have recently met in the finals of online tournaments and managed to repeat the familiar scenario, once again convincingly beating them. Below all was, oddly enough, “planted” his opponent in the final — closing the top-ten Anish Giri.In one half of the mesh with the Weights hit just three who have qualified for the quarterfinals of the Russians. It is a guaranteed hit in the semifinals of at least one domestic grandmaster. Representation of Russia in this tournament, interestingly, was the most ambitious: on stage was announced just four domestic players. Among them is Alexander Grischuk, who is on international online tournaments differ is not yet possible, for the first time participating in a large series of Vladislav Artemiev, with Russians among the highest — the fourth FIDE rating Ian Nepomniachtchi and Daniil Dubov, the winner of one of the stages of the tour.Three of them qualified to the quarterfinals: Oak trees had the same number of points with two members of his group, Alexander Grischuk and American Hikaru Nakamura, but lost on additional indicators. At Dubova were less points scored by the results of the parties with members of the “twist”. Thus, the company to Grischuk, Nepomniachtchi and Artemyev to fit the Dutchman Anish Giri, master of information, parties in a draw. It would seem that at least some of the domestic players — bet to a greater extent done, of course, Nepomniachtchi — will be able to defeat Giri. But Ian Nepomniachtchi, who was struggling with Weights in the semi-finals, fell just short. Their protisostoyanie was about equal, but Weights have played a little sharper.In the final, the Dutchman was very close to that in the first match to beat Magnus Carlsen. Having held to a draw in “regular time” and “Armageddon” (this format of the game suggests that white has the advantage of time — minute, but they at all costs must win), Giri was playing with black and Carlsen got a huge head start. The Norwegian grandmaster at the stage debut for unknown reasons — probably there have been some problems with communication — has spent the course of two minutes. Anish Giri from such benefits has decided not to refuse, although, of course, could be the bigger person and also wait in these same two minutes. In the second match — he was much shorter than the first — Kramnik defeated Giri in the first and became the decisive game. The other three ended in draws. In the last game the Dutch grandmaster had a chance to equalize (Magnus Carlsen played with black), but again it failed to do so. The Norwegian played too precisely, and drove the opponent’s king under a perpetual check, completed the game in a draw.Ekaterina Remizova
