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DRAMA: Magnus Carlsen photographed at the Hotel Energi Stavanger, where Norway Chess is played. Photo: Carina Johansen
Poland’s Jan-Krzysztof Duda (22) sensationally beat Magnus Carlsen (29) in Saturday’s game at Norway Chess. The last defeat of the world champion in the long jump occurred on July 31, 2018.
This means that 802 days have passed since Carlsen had to leave the board with a loss in the classic variant of chess.
Since then, he has played 125 games in a row without losing.
– It had to happen sometime. But it’s very, very disappointing anyway, Carlsen said on the TV 2 broadcast.
– I really thought I was going to win. It was very disappointing. He had overlooked Queen c2. It was unforgivable.
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– This is the face of a man who is trying to hide his disappointment, said Jon Ludvig Hammer as an expert on TV 2 when it came to an end.
Duda hadn’t won the tournament before. He severely punished Carlsen’s mistakes in this game.
Carlsen’s last defeat in classical chess came in Biel against Shakhriyar Mamedyarov of Azerbaijan.
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Also in May, Duda won against Carlsen, but it was a quick chess online in the Rapid Challenge tournament.
– I did not expect in any way to win this game, smiled the Pole, who had white pieces.
– I was very uncomfortable for a while, but I managed to defend myself, admitted Duda in the interview with the organizer Fiona Steil-Antoni.
– I thought “it’s not so bad if I lose to Magnus”.
But Jan-Krzysztof Duda struck back and, in the end, the only tension was whether he would be able to “get the ball into goal”.
– Magnus played fantastic in the opening game. It looked very promising. It took a while before we realized it got troublesome, Hammer said on the TV 2 broadcast. The party ended after 50 moves.
The Norwegian led Norway Chess before Saturday’s matches. Carlsen first played a draw against Levon Aronian, but won at Armageddon, in accordance with the special rules of the Rogaland tournament.
Armageddon also won against Alireza Firouzja in the second game. He then won “after regulation time” against Norwegian Aryan Tari and World Cup opponent Fabiano Caruana in subsequent games.
Due to the crown crisis, there have been very few physical long chess tournaments in 2020. Norway Chess is the first since the world closed in March.
The tournament has only six participants, who face each other twice.
In total, Levon Aronian now leads with 11 points, while Alireza Firouzja has 10 and Carlsen 9 points. Aryan Tari lost on Saturday against Firouzja. Fabiano Caruana is fighting harder than Carlsen after losing two games in a row.
On Sunday, the parties “turn around” for Carlsen and Duda to meet just 24 hours after the previous agreement.
– It gets a lot worse meeting Magnus when I have black pieces, Duda tells official interviewer Fiona Steil-Antoni.
