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Having already secured victory, GM Magnus Carlsen ended his Altibox Norway Chess tournament with a loss to GM Levon Aronian, who came third in the tournament.
GM Alireza Firouzja finished in an excellent second place by defeating GM Jan-Krzysztof Duda in the standard game. GM Fabiano Caruana ended his event with an armageddon victory against GM Aryan Tari.
Norwegian Chess 2020 | Final ranking
| # | fed | Name | bone scan | one | two | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | Pts | Prize (NOK) | Prize ($) | Prize (€) |
| one | Carlsen | 2863 | 1.5 3 | 1.5 0 | 3 1.5 | 0 3 | 3 3 | 19.5 | 700K | 74,625 | 63,700 | ||
| two | Firouzja | 2728 | 1 0 | 1.5 1.5 | 1.5 1 | 3 3 | 3 3 | 18.5 | 370K | 39,444 | 33,670 | ||
| 3 | Aronian | 2767 | 1 3 | eleven | 3 0 | 3 1 | 3 1.5 | 17.5 | 230K | 24,520 | 20,930 | ||
| 4 | Caruana | 2828 | 0 1 | 1 1.5 | 0 3 | 3 1.5 | 3 1.5 | 15.5 | 180 thousand | 19,189 | 16,380 | ||
| 5 | Doubt | 2757 | 3 0 | 0 0 | 0 1.5 | 0 1 | 1 3 | 9.5 | 170 thousand | 18,123 | 15,470 | ||
| 6 | countries | 2633 | 0 0 | 0 0 | 0 1 | 0 1 | 1.5 0 | 3.5 | 160 thousand | 17,057 | 14,560 |
Before moving on to the summary of the final round, it is interesting to consult the leaderboard that includes only the standard games. It turns out that Aronian was only “beaten” by Firouzja and Carlsen at the Armageddon games. Without those and with a normal scoring system, I would have tied for first place with the best Sonneborn-Berger score:
Norwegian Chess 2020 | Standard games only
| # | fed | Name | bone scan | Perf | one | two | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | Pts | SB |
| 1-3 | Aronian, Levon | 2767 | 2869 | ½1 | ½½ | 10 | 1½ | 1½ | 6.5 / 10 | 29.25 | ||
| 1-3 | Carlsen, Magnus | 2863 | 2851 | ½0 | ½1 | 1½ | one | eleven | 6.5 / 10 | 27.75 | ||
| 1-3 | Firouzja, Alireza | 2728 | 2877 | ½½ | ½0 | ½½ | eleven | eleven | 6.5 / 10 | 25.25 | ||
| 4 | Caruana, Fabiano | 2828 | 2785 | 01 | 0½ | ½½ | 1½ | 1½ | 5.5 / 10 | |||
| 5 | Doubt, Jan-Krzysztof | 2757 | 2657 | 0½ | 10 | 00 | 0½ | ½1 | 3.5 / 10 | |||
| 6 | Tari, Aryan | 2633 | 2488 | 0½ | 00 | 00 | 0½ | ½0 | 1.5 / 10 |
After his win against Firouzja in the penultimate round, one of the things Carlsen said was, “I certainly had a lot of experiences like this. I lost two rook finals to Levon for no reason. It’s part of the growth process.”
As if he had cursed his game in the final round, Carlsen ended his tournament with a loss, in a rook final, against Aronian. Adding “for no reason” to that would be too much, but he had a draw shortly before the end.
Position after 49 … b4.
Here, Carlsen surprisingly took the pawn on f6, thus missing a crucial tempo. Analysis shows that 50.h5 (Aronian), 50.Kg7 + (Kramnik / Polgar) and even 50.g5 (motor) would have drawn here.
GM Vladimir Kramnik was very surprised by Carlsen’s mistake. It should be noted that the world champion was reduced to four minutes and five seconds compared to 21 minutes for Aronian in a phase where there was an increase of 10 seconds.
Kramnik suggested that the world champion needs a “mathematical motivation” to play well in the last round (when here Carlsen had already won the tournament). “Today his game was really bad for his level.”
Carlsen hadn’t lost to the white pieces in a classic game in almost three years. The last time was on December 10, 2017, against GM Ian Nepomniachtchi at the London Chess Classic.
1/2 Deservedly lost in the last round of @NorwayChess today, which thankfully didn’t matter in terms of tournament rankings. There were certainly some positive moments, but most of all I felt quite clueless throughout the tournament. Even long thoughts usually result in guesswork
– Magnus Carlsen (@MagnusCarlsen) October 16, 2020
2/2 However, happy to be playing on the board and classic again, and a big thank you to the organizer for making it possible and safe for us. I don’t know when I will play a classic tournament again, but I will be eagerly awaiting the opportunity and trying to improve.
– Magnus Carlsen (@MagnusCarlsen) October 16, 2020
Firouzja bounced back wonderfully from his unfortunate loss to Carlsen the other day. The Iranian teenager beat Duda in a good game, took all three points for a classic victory and finished second. In his comments after the match, he showed the ambition of a champion:
“Today I feel happy, but overall I am a little disappointed because I was very close to winning everything! I guess it happens. I think I played a decent tournament. I got a good result. Except for yesterday’s match, I think all matches they were of good quality. “
When asked what happened to Carlsen, he said: “I think I lost to myself yesterday.”
Caruana ended a tournament upside down for him with an Armageddon victory against Tari. His standard game saw an interesting trade sacrifice that Caruana had misjudged.
“I’m a little surprised,” he said. “During the game, I thought that this must be a really good position for White after 20.Kxe6. Then suddenly I realized that after 21.Bxh6 Kf7I’m probably not better at all, not even a little bit. “
Caruana said his victory at Armageddon was “smooth.” I was happy to see 17 … Nd4 being played as the game got more complicated there, “exactly what I needed to win.”
Caruana noted that there was some distraction for him during the tournament. He had been in regular contact with FIDE, which yesterday postponed the Candidates.
“During the tournament we were constantly dealing with the Candidates, wondering if it would happen or not,” Caruana said. “The general feeling was that it would not happen, even before it became clear that there was no way it would happen on November 1.”
The American GM considers it a good decision. “I don’t think we should compromise people’s safety to play chess.”
The next big event featuring top grandmasters is the Speed Chess Invitational on Sunday, October 25, when 16 players will compete for two places in the $ 100,000 Speed Chess Championship Main Event, taking place on October 26. October to December 13. commented, Chess.com sabotaged the Candidates to organize their Speed Chess Championship more comfortably. 
The Norway Chess tournament was a six-player double round-robin that took place from October 5-16, 2020 at the Clarion Hotel in Stavanger, Norway. The time control was two hours for all movements with an increment of 10 seconds per movement after movement 40.
In the event of a tie, players played a game of Armageddon approximately 20 minutes after drawing their standard game. The colors remained the same and the time control was 10 minutes for White versus seven minutes for Black (who had a draw probability) with an increase of one second per move from move 41.
The point system was as follows:
- Main game victory: 3 points
- Main game lost: 0 points
- Draw the main game and victory armageddon: 1.5 points
- Draw main game and losses armageddon: 1 point
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