Carlsen came too late - struck back with revansjeseier

Wednesday took Carlsen a much-needed victory when he with blockbuster got easy match against the teen Earth van Foreest in the Wijk aan Zee tournament. With it, he broke the array of 21 consecutive draw in the langsjakk.

The Norwegian ace was a long way to go remissporet again, but in the 45. the cover got verdensfirer Mamedyarov sear to move forward H-pawn. Sjakkcomputerne went from to work out to secure a draw for the superior Carlsen-edge.

Aserbajdsjanerens feiltrekk came in a very complicated position. An inaccuracy from Carlsen could easily have flipped the party the opposite way.

Mamedyarov was the last player who last caused Carlsen to a loss (31. July 2018). The Norwegian has gone their last 34 parties in classical chess without defeat.

Carlsen is the world champion after a convincing final Nice gesture

Friday's party got an unusual start. Carlsen came namely 11 minutes late to the table, but Mamedyarov responded with a nice gesture. The opponent from Azerbaijan would not have any tidsfordel of Carlsens forsentkomming. He chose to wait as long with their first move.

Carlsen has been praised for similar behavior even. During the blitz world CHAMPIONSHIP in romjulen came opponent Jan Nepomniasjtsji too late to the table, and then selected Carlsen to go for a draw despite the fact that he was likely to have a kjempeovertak. Poengdelingen secured the Norwegian a world title.

Increased to Caruana

Stjerneduellen in the Netherlands was over after 51 moves. Carlsen played the party with the white pieces. Saturday he meets Russian Vladimir Fedosejev in 7. round of the Wijk aan Zee tournament, Carlsen has won six times previously.

Norwegian is up in four points out of six possible. There are just as many points as Nepomniasjtsji and hjemmehåpet Anish Giri on top of the sammenlagtlista.

With a new victory increased Carlsen, incidentally, further door down to Fabiano Caruana on the world ranking.

Carlsen with the marathon-a draw in the Netherlands