Magnus Carlsen’s 5th Banter Blitz session
Magnus Carlsen will be back to play more blitz against chess24 Premium users this Tuesday 16th July at 18:30 CEST. The World Champion ended the last session, “I’ll be back at the board soon in Croatia, trying to play some better chess than I did today” (a mere 14 wins in 15 games), before going on to crush a field of the world’s best chess players in Zagreb. Now it’s your chance to take on the World Chess Champion and highest rated player of all time!
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Carlsen conquers Croatia: 7 conclusions
Magnus Carlsen’s simply “insane” (Giri) year continued as he beat Maxime Vachier-Lagrave in the final round to win the 2019 Croatia Grand Chess Tour by a full point. That made it 8 tournament victories in a row, 79 classical game...
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Croatia GCT 10: Nothing to see here
Magnus Carlsen still leads Wesley So by half a point going into the final round of the 2019 Croatia Grand Chess Tour after their head-to-head clash was an instantly forgettable draw. It seemed as though the other players took the...
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Croatia GCT 9: Aronian stops Carlsen… just!
Levon Aronian found some brilliant defensive resources to avoid becoming Magnus Carlsen’s fourth victim in a row after another paradoxical opening idea from the World Champion almost worked to perfection. The only victory in Roun...
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Croatia GCT 8: Carlsen’s “special” win over Ding
Magnus Carlsen got to unleash some unused World Championship preparation on Ding Liren in Round 8 of the Croatia Grand Chess Tour, and although the world no. 3 survived the middlegame he was hunted down in the endgame. “A win is ...
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Croatia GCT 7: Carlsen ends his Nepo jinx
Magnus Carlsen took the sole lead in the Croatia Grand Chess Tour with four rounds to go after finally beating Ian Nepomniachtchi in a game of classical chess. The Russian made one mistake, but it was catastrophic, and saw his po...
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Croatia GCT 6: Carlsen and So catch Nepo
Magnus Carlsen scored a 14th classical career win over Hikaru Nakamura in Round 6 to catch Ian Nepomniachtchi, after the runaway leader was put to the sword by Ding Liren. They were joined in the lead by Wesley So, who took down ...
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Croatia GCT 5: Lev blames schedule for missed win
Levon Aronian played more star moves and missed more chances than in all the other games combined as he failed to complete what should have been a minor masterpiece against Shakhriyar Mamedyarov. Instead it was Ding Liren who sco...
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Croatia GCT 4: An epic struggle
A shaken Magnus Carlsen lamented how much he’d missed as his attempt to mate Shakhriyar Mamedyarov almost backfired spectacularly, but ultimately what he described as an “epic struggle” ended in a draw. In fact all games were dra...
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Croatia GCT 3: “Game on!” as Nepo hits 3/3
“It’s clearly game on”, said Magnus Carlsen, after Ian Nepomniachtchi scored a crushing KID win over Shakhriyar Mamedyarov to take a full point lead after three rounds of the Croatia Grand Chess Tour. For the second day in a row ...
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