At simply 18 years of age, Praggnanandhaa displayed his mettle on Carlsen’s residence floor, main the open part of the six-player event after this victory.
Using the white items, Praggnanandhaa, who was the runner-up within the earlier yr’s FIDE Chess World Cup, executed a collection of strategic strikes to safe the win. Following this spherical, Praggnanandhaa led with a rating of 5.5 out of 9 factors, whereas Carlsen dropped to the fifth place within the event standings.
Previous to this encounter, Praggnanandhaa had recorded victories over Carlsen in each speedy and blitz chess codecs. The second spherical of the Norway Chess event noticed all classical video games ending in attracts, with Carlsen, Alireza Firouzja, and Ding Liren successful their respective Armageddon video games to every earn 1.5 factors.
Praggnanandhaa, who had beforehand led 2-Zero in opposition to World Champion Ding Liren, reached his first classical draw on this spherical earlier than Ding Liren gained the Armageddon tie-breaker.
The event additionally featured a carefully contested classical sport between Magnus Carlsen and Hikaru Nakamura, which concluded in a draw. Carlsen later gained the Armageddon sport, demonstrating his ability in high-pressure conditions and securing a lead within the event.
Alireza Firouzja and Fabiano Caruana additionally drew their classical sport, with Firouzja successful the next Armageddon sport.
Within the Norway Chess Girls’s Event, Vaishali R defeated Koneru Humpy, marking her first classical win in opposition to India’s prime feminine participant. This victory propelled Vaishali to the second place amongst Indian girls gamers within the dwell score checklist.
Different matches within the girls’s event included attracts between Lei Tingjie and Pia Cramling, and Ju Wenjun and Anna Muzychuk, with the Chinese language gamers successful their Armageddon video games.
The Norway Chess 2024 event, held from Might 27 to June 7 at SpareBank 1 SR-Financial institution, options each the standard Norway Chess event and the newly launched Norway Chess Girls event. Each tournaments comply with a 6-player double round-robin format and provide equal prize funds.
(Inputs from ANI)
