Magnus Carlsen back for more Banter Blitz
World Chess Champion Magnus Carlsen will accept challenges from Premium members this Sunday 23rd June at 16:00 CEST as he once more streams his thoughts live while playing blitz on chess24. This is already the 4th session by Magnus, and you can catch up with all the previous games below. If you haven’t seen them yet, you’re in for a treat, as at times it’s simply staggering how quickly and accurately the world no. 1 grasps the essence of any position.
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Norway Chess 6: Things fall apart
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Norway Chess 5: How (not) to play Armageddon
Magnus Carlsen increased his lead in Altibox Norway Chess 2019 to 1.5 points after drawing two effortless black games against Maxime Vachier-Lagrave to maintain a 100% winning record in his mini-matches. All five encounters went ...
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Norway Chess 4: Stunning moves
Magnus Carlsen beat Shakhriyar Mamedyarov to retain a 1-point lead after Round 4 of Altibox Norway Chess, but birthday boy Yu Yangyi was the only player to win in classical chess after grinding out a win in Alexander Grischuk’s t...
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Norway Chess 3: Magnus takes the lead
Magnus Carlsen is the sole leader of the 2019 Altibox Norway Chess tournament after winning what Peter Svidler described as “an instant Grünfeld classic” against Alexander Grischuk. That was just one of four decisive classical ga...
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Norway Chess 2: Shak leads as Carlsen escapes
Shakhriyar Mamedyarov is the sole leader of Altibox Norway Chess after pouncing on a blunder by Vishy Anand in Round 2 to win their classical game. Fabiano Caruana also picked up a 2-point win against MVL, while Magnus Carlsen wa...
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Norway Chess 2019, 1: Armageddon is here!
Magnus Carlsen, Shakhriyar Mamedyarov, Ding Liren, Yu Yangyi and Levon Aronian all won in Armageddon to lead this year’s Altibox Norway Chess tournament on 1.5/2 after Round 1. Only Carlsen-Anand saw a player come close to winnin...
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MVL beats Magnus again to win Norway Chess Blitz
Maxime Vachier-Lagrave beat Magnus Carlsen for a 3rd time in a row to win the blitz opener of the 2019 edition of Altibox Norway Chess. It was the perfect finale to the event, since a win would have seen Magnus take first place. I...
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The Norway Chess revolution starts Monday
Peter Svidler and Jan Gustafsson will be commentating live here on chess24 as Magnus Carlsen, Fabiano Caruana and eight more of the world’s top players are in action in the Altibox Norway Chess blitz opener on Monday 3rd June. Th...
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Women’s Candidates Tournament starts in Kazan
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