Magnus Carlsen beat Hikaru Nakamura – Carlsen to the top: won $ 734,000

Celebration rejected the world champion art of which it would be something.

– I haven’t thought about it, but I just wanted to win the tournament. There is not much celebration these days, he said.

Large sums

In the final game, the Norwegian world champion had matchball and saved Remis even though the American was on offense.

Carlsen played for half a point, all the time would be enough to decide the match for the tournament owner. That plan was successful to the fullest.

After 58 moves, Nakamura had to realize that he had no more angles to press the Norwegian’s position. Therefore, the players agreed on a reference.

Carlsen and Nakamura collected $ 472,000 in prizes at the Magnus Carlsen Invitational before Sunday’s final. Carlsen will receive NOK 734,000 for the victory.

The total amount of the prize in the tournament was NOK 2.55 million.

dream start

In Sunday’s first game, Carlsen played very well and slowly but surely painted Nakamura’s position to pieces. After 84 moves, the victory was a fact.

Then the world champion came down to earth quickly. In the second of four quick chess games, Nakamura created relatively quick pressure on the position of the Norwegian world champion. After 30 moves passed, Carlsen spent nearly five minutes searching for his answer to Nakamura’s attack, and suddenly the Norwegian was also strong defensively on the clock.

Carlsen tried to defend himself in the moves that followed, but Nakamura’s acquisition proved impossible to match. Therefore, the American, who has played solid chess throughout the online tournament, returned completely to the final duel.

White victory

The third ended in victory for the Norwegian world champion after 52 moves. Carlsen pressured his American opponent defensively throughout the game.

Therefore, the white pieces came out victorious again in the duel between the two. That was the case when the final duel met in the opening game.

Therefore, the Norwegian world champion had matchball and only needed a draw in match number four.

Both Carlsen and Nakamura dramatically secured the final spot at the Magnus Carlsen Invitational. On Saturday, the Norwegian world champion defeated Chinese Ding Liren in four extremely controversial fast chess games.

On Friday, it was necessary to play lightning chess again to separate Nakamura and Fabiano Caruana in the first semifinal.