Norway Chess: Magnus Carlsen leads after round 4, Gukesh beats Caruana

World No 1 Magnus Carlsen showed his people with an instructive triumph successful the endgame against Indian No 2 Arjun Erigaisi. The Norwegian superstar, who had mislaid 2 Armageddon games successful the past 2 rounds, made a beardown connection with this triumph connected location turf.

In the crippled betwixt World Champion Dommaraju Gukesh and World No 3 Fabiano Caruana, the American was starring astir the full game, with important winning chances. However, helium could not person his vantage owed to Gukesh’s superb antiaircraft skills. Gukesh past went connected to triumph the Armageddon crippled convincingly.

Earlier, World Champion Gukesh took down World No 2 Hikaru Nakamura successful the 3rd round, cementing his rubric credentials with a bold performance. This triumph could not travel successful a amended infinitesimal for the Indian prodigy pursuing 2 achy losses successful the archetypal 2 rounds.

On the opening time of Norway Chess, Gukesh suffered a nonaccomplishment astatine the hands of satellite No 1 Magnus Carlsen. He past mislaid to Arjun Erigaisi successful the tension-filled all-Indian brushwood but the satellite champion bounced backmost successful circular 3 with a triumph implicit Nakamura and a 4th circular triumph against Caruana.

World No 2 Hikaru Nakamura against Chinese prima Wei Yi was a hard-fought, breathtaking gully successful classical information of their matchup. Wei Yi yet triumphed successful the Armageddon tiebreaks, securing the each important other points.

The Norway Chess Women’s tourney saw different action-packed time with a decisive triumph for newcomer Sarasadat Khademalsharieh against Tingjie Lei. It marked her archetypal triumph astatine Norway Chess, delivered done an breathtaking attacking performance.

The 2 remaining games, Anna Muzychuk against Vaishali Rameshbabu, and World Champion Wenjun Ju against Humpy Koneru, were decided successful Armageddon, highlighting the fiercely competitory quality of the women’s field, wherever each constituent counts. Vaishali Rameshbabu and Wenjun Ju prevailed successful their Armageddon games, earning the important other points.

Norway Chess is 1 of the world’s premier chess tournaments, bringing unneurotic the apical antheral and pistillate players successful a distinctive 6-player treble round-robin format. The 2025 variation is moving from May 26 to June 6.

(This communicative was taken from a syndicated provender and was lone edited for benignant by Gujarat Samachar Digital team)