Your network blocks the Lichess assets!

lichess.org
Donate

CARLSEN beats GUKESH and the rest Draws. Norway Chess R4

ChessAnalysisOver the boardTournamentChess Personalities
The Norway chess came this year with a super strong line-up headed by the goat Magnus Carlsen, 3 top 10s as Keymer Firouzja & Wesley So, the world champion Gukesh and the other indian young start Praggnanandhaa. We have the womens section too with all the players over 2500. I going to analyze the best games each day here and in youtube so lets see what happen in Norway this year.

WORLD Nº1 VS WORLD CHAMPION

The most anticipated game of the tournament camed finally with Gukesh having the white pieces vs Magnus in the only decided classical game of the day.

https://lichess.org/study/3Z70a7DE/HwIcoWyu#2

Pragg and So won their armageddons but Firouzja still being in the first position.

The Strenght of the Maroczy Ring

The womens are making all draw all the rounds but at least the armageddons are being interesting, in this game Muzychuk showed how much powerfull is the maroczy structure despite have the black pieces.

https://lichess.org/study/3Z70a7DE/HVzjjyeY#3

55299641684_d3b154d6a7_6k.jpg

6.d5! vs Queen's Indian

Very interesting pawn sacrifice of Assaubayeva in the opening to still being the leader.

https://lichess.org/study/3Z70a7DE/x8R9xAMY#10

55299079897_098b734cb6_6k.jpgHope that you enjoy the analysis of the round 4, happy to see Magnus playing good chess again and the tiebreaks of the womens sections are always great to, follow me here and in Youtube to see how continue to tournament, bye bye.