Before the start of the match predictions were different. Some experts said that Carlsen has not yet recovered from the failure in fantasy football. Recall that for the last round of the English Premier League and its fantasy counterpart, when players form a virtual team of real football players, Carlsen even agreed with Dean Eigenem on the earlier of the beginning of their meeting. Other players suggested that Magnus will be really pissed off in batches with Svidler. In any case, the failure of the football had no effect on chess. Magnus won another victory.
Answering the question how he could do that, Carlsen tried to be as polite and not to become conceited.
– whatever I came up with sounded strange – quoted Carlsen portal chess24, which are broadcasts of matches with commentary. – All I can say, I have no obvious weaknesses in the game that can try to use rivals.
the Next opponent of Magnus is another Russian Ian Nepomniachtchi. In the seventh round he beat at Armageddon Hungarian Peter Leko (3:2) and is second in the standings, trailing the Magnus 2 points (18 vs. 20). Nepomniachtchi and Carlsen won all of their matches, but played two more Armageddon.
– it is Obvious that the match against Nepomniachtchi is very important to me, I want to be a leader and get into the semi-finals with the first line, – said Magnus.
According to the rules in the playoffs will be the four strongest grandmaster. Three rounds before the end of the circular stage a chance to compete for the main prize of 45 thousand dollars – keep the Dutchman Anish Giri (14), Russians Vladimir Kramnik (12) and Peter Svidler (11), Ukrainian Vassily Ivanchuk (9).
