With more plot twists than a whole season's worth of "Game of Thrones," the eighth round of Norway Chess delivered more surprises, shocks, and horrors than anyone could have counted on setting up an exciting last round of the tournament. Through a miracle of some kind, World Champion Magnus Carlsen on.
Has GM Viswanathan Anand been retigered? As the events unfold this week at 2022 Norway Chess in Stavanger, the 52-year-old is certainly beginning to make it look like it. The former world champion continued to demonstrate that he is still very much a force to be reckoned with as he took down GM Wang.
The second day of the Superbet Rapid & Blitz Poland, the second event of the 2022 Grand Chess Tour, continued today with outstanding results by GM Viswanathan Anand and GM Richard Rapport. The pair surged ahead of the field after they scored 2.5/3 and 3/3, respectively, during Friday's three games. Anand.
GM Magnus Carlsen won the Norway Chess tournament for the third time in a row, and the fourth in total. Like in the first half of the tournament, the world champion won the armageddon game against world title challenger GM Ian Nepomniachtchi, who came fourth. GM Alireza Firouzja ended up beating and.
The Norway Chess tournament is wide open again as leader GM Richard Rapport lost his first classical game, to runner-up GM Magnus Carlsen. The Hungarian GM still leads but only by half a point, so anything is possible in the final two rounds. In another round without armageddons, GM Alireza Firouzja.