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NOT ONLINE: Magnus Carlsen played his first game in four games in his own online tournament on Saturday afternoon. It was at decisive armageddon when the Norwegian made a good mistake. Photo: Ole Kristian Strøm / VG
(Magnus Carlsen-Hikaru Nakamura 3-2 after Armageddon) Magnus Carlsen (29) made an unforgivable mistake, called scandalous by experts, when he sought to beat Hikaru Nakamura (32) “well” in the opening match of his own grand tournament . online
– It’s an outrageously bad game for Magnus. I don’t think you can overstate how bad it was, “exclaimed TV chess expert 2 Jon Ludvig Hammer when Magnus Carlsen simply threw himself in the third against the American.
The Norwegian led well and the experts, although they agreed that he would win the game and the match 3-1. Then he made a move that made the experts moan, and Magnus Carlsen responded with desperation and anger, directed at himself.
It became a dramatic “armageddon,” where Magnus Carlsen wanted to win with a draw because he was playing with black pieces, and Nakamura reportedly gave up. That gave Magnus Carlsen two points, rather than three, that he would have won without loss and with victory after four regular games.
This is armageddon
– Magnus seems to have won. This was very boring, said Hans Olav Lahlum, considering that the clock in the Armageddon game probably went wrong, in Nakamura’s favor. The allotted time, a difference of one minute, should have been the opposite of what it was when the game of Armageddon began.
The world’s top eight chess players started this exclusive and one-of-a-kind tournament, “The Magnus Carlsen Invitational”, on Saturday afternoon with host Magnus Carlsen against American Hikaru Nakamura in the draw.
Well, be aware online, not physically facing each other. Carlsen in front of his board at his home in Oslo, Nakamura in front of his board at his home in the United States.
Carlsen started with white pieces, and chess expert Jon Ludvig Hammer in the TV 2 chess studio immediately thought that the Norwegian might be very pleased with the opening.
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Chess experts Jon Ludvig Hammer and Hans Olav Lahlum were, so to speak, during the first game “certain” that it was against the victory of Magnus Carlsen. The former hinted at Remi on the way, but when the clock struck, in Carlsen’s favor, they had little doubt that the Norwegian would land him sovereignly.
Until Carlsen got the expert duo to scratch their heads.
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It didn’t last long, the moment after Nakamura threw in the towel. He gave up, hoping the next 10-minute break, and his white checkers to begin, would give him hope for a successful comeback in the second game.
It started with a classic “Spanish opening” and an aggressive opening by Magnus Carlsen, with black pieces. The Norwegian had to remove the remains of his left eye and leaned abruptly towards the camera connected to his video board. There and then he disappeared onto the board, with Nakamura leaning over to his left, now wearing headphones, and Carlsen directly ahead, arms folded, and a while back in his black leather chair.
– Magnus has definitely been well prepared here, noted Jon Ludvig Hammer.
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However, after 24 moves in the next game, Nakamura was the favorite to match Carlsen’s lead, which he used. With 1-1 ahead of the third, Hikaru Nakamura, after a kind of storm of visions, was told to remove the headphones he was wearing at the party where he swept the Norwegian off the field.
After 28 moves, there was a tie, with almost the same chance of winning for white pieces playing Carlsen and Nakamura with black pieces.
“It is going to be terribly difficult for Magnus to break through,” said Jon Ludvig Hammer, before posting a series of alternative moves and saying that Carlsen was trying to take control and that he had trouble believing that Carlsen was going to do it. Win the party.
But he did, after a sensational change, which put Nakamura and no less the experts in his place.
In front of the fourth game, with a 2–1 lead, Magnus Carlsen only needed a draw to win. Then he made the big mistake, then he recovered with victory at Armageddon, a “party” also characterized by chaos.
