Indian GM Nihal Sarin surpasses the world n ° 1 Magnus Carlsen at the online chess event “ Tuesday ” – Firstpost

The Indian grand master Nihal Sarin was the interpreter off competition in an online chess event which had the world n ° 1 Magnus Carlsen among its participants. Nihal had the best finish combined among all the competitors during the “ `Tuesday ‘event’ ‘, organized by the Chess.com online chess platform. Thrissur’s 20 -year -old Kerala finished finalist in the Russian Serbian GM Alexey Sarana in the “first edition” of the event. Nihal would then guarantee a finish at the head of seven in “the late edition” of the event.

Nihal bounced from a disastrous start to finish second

What made its performance even more impressive was its recovery after a disastrous start in the event “ early ” – losing to the Russian candidate, Maître Evgenij Novikov, after having made an error.

Nihal was going to win new and get one in the next 10 laps to finish 9.5 points with Sarana and Tuan Minh Le Du Vietnam, beating big names such as Maxime Vachier-Lagrave and Jan-Krzysztof Dudaalong like.

Sarana, however, was declared the winner of the “early” event due to a better breakdown.

Nihal would then win six on the trotting in the “late” event, but would end with 8.5 points after suffering defeats against the Firouzja and Daniel Naroditsky.

The five -time world champion Carlsen, who had recently finished third in the Freestyle chess event in Weissenhaus, Germany, finished 10th and third in “ “ ” and “ late ” respectively.

The “Early” event started at 9:30 p.m. IST and had 740 participants while the “late” edition began at 2:30 am ST the next day, with 486 participants in this leg. The online event is played in Bliz format.

Among the other Indians to shine during the “ `event on Tuesday ” in recent months, there is the world n ° 5 Arjun Erigaisi, who had won the event` “ early ” on January 14 with 10 victories in 11 games – including victories on Carlsen and Fabiano Caruana.

Nihal had finished 12th in the “late” edition of the same event with eight victories, two defeats and a draw.