India’s Guru Praggnanandhaa ends his campaign with victory over Nakamura Hikaru of the U.S. He finished third in the final and became world champion. Norwegian Chess Ace, Carlsen Magnus wins The Competition was held in Stavanger, Norway.
Carlsen won special tournaments either by classic time control or end of the world In case of a tie.The winner received a prize money amounting to NOK 700,000 (approximately US$65,000).
Although losing to Praggnanandhaa who was ranked third with 14.5 points, Nakamura who had 15.5 points came second overall.
Praggnanandhaa should be happy about winning this match which is one of the greatest matches ever beating three world great players.
An earlier match involved him defeating Carlson With Caruana in classical time control and after Nakamura he was making history because he is a player managed to defeat top three players.
Alireza Firouzja (13.5 points) is fourth behind China’s current world champion Ding Liren; whereas Caruana finished fifth sharing bottom position in a six-man double round-robin race with ten points less than an Iranian born Frenchman and also won the Armageddon match against him.
Ju Wenjun easily defeated compatriot Lei Tingjie and claimed women’s crown through three victories under classical time control on behalf China team that totaled 19 score points.
Anna Muzychuk is second on 16 points which are 1.5 more than Lei and two ahead of R Vaishali, while Koneru Humpy has ten points well clear for Pia Cramling who has scored eight points up until now experience-wise.
The final round was amazing! As always, Carlsen proves that he is capable as it happened yesterday against Fabiano Caruana.
After standard draw by Rui Lopez, Carlsen reserved his energy for the decisive end and guaranteed himself a real advantage in the middle as the game progressed into its queen’s opening.
The Norwegian won a queen and pawn ending that took 52 moves to accomplish because his passed piece in the middle was set to become a new queen.
Using London methods, Praggnanandhaa Nakamura realized this chance and never looked back closely followed by Nakamura. In just 31 moves, he easily won with king side attack.
Men’s final round results: Magnus Calrsen (North, 17.5) defeated Fabiano Caruana (USA, 11.5) 1.5-1; R Bragg (India, 14.5) defeated Hikaru Nakamura (USA, 15.5) 1.5-1; Firouzja Alireza (France, 13.5) defeated Ding Liren (China, 7)1-.1
female: Ju Wenjun (China,19) beat Lei Tingjie( China ,14.5),3-0; Anna Muzychuk(Ukraine,16) beat Koneru Humpy(India ,10),a draw byR Vaishali(12.5), which ended up losing by Pia Cramling(Sweden ,8).
