World no 1 Magnus Carlsen Won Each of His First Nine Games in the First-Ever Freestyle Friday Event, Defeating World No 2 Hikaru Nakamura As Wel AS American Grandmaster Hans Niemann Along the Way, and was adjuded the winner with 9.5 TIE BRIS.
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Magnus Carlsen produced an almost perfect campaign to win the very first Freestyle Friday event on Chess.com, crossing the field of heavy goods vehicles which included people like World No 2 Hikaru Nakamura as well as Ian Nepomniachtchi and Hans Niemann. The world n ° 1 reigning that Carlsen collected won each of his first first games in the online chess tournament before losing his last match against the Grand Master Ukrainian Oleksandr Bortnyk, later emerging the triumphant brising of life .
Carlsen was one of the four players with a perfect record after six laps – Nakamura, Niemann and the great Armenian master Haik Martirosyan being the others. This led to an exciting test of force between Carlsen and Nakamura, which the Norwegian Grand Master won in 65 movements.
The victory over Nakamura was followed by a highly anticipated confrontation with the American director general Niemann, who recently criticized the five -time chess world champion and even accused him of having tried to “ruin his life” with Allegations of cheating in 2022. Carlsensen, however, defeated him in 56 movements while playing with black pieces.
After taking over Nakamura and Niemann, Carlsen beat Russian director general Nepomniachtchi, with whom he had shared the title of the World Blitz Championship in New York controversial last month. His sequence of victories, however, was put to an end by the director general of Belarusian of 18 years, Denis Lazavik, who held him in his dead end.
The 34 -year -old would then be tried the winner after finishing with 9.5 points – in front of Bortnyk on the shooting breakdown after the Ukrainian won an upset victory over him during the last round.
The tournament had presented the first three players in the world, with Fabiano Caruana, world n ° 3, which is currently participating in the Tata Steel chess tournament at Wijk Aan Zee, in the Netherlands, also participated.
Georgia’s international Meri Arabidzze master won the first prize for Fridayle Friday by scoring seven points.
Freestyle Friday is an online chess event for players titled organized by Freestyle Chess on Chess.com. The event is similar to titled Tuesdays, whose inaugural edition was won by the Grand Master Indian Arjun Erigaisi earlier this month, and will take place every Friday at 9:30 p.m. IST with a price fund of $ 1,000 .
The event will take place in a Swiss format at 11 laps with a 3 + 1 time check, although in the freestyle format (Chess960).
In total, 476 players participated in the free Friday inaugural tournament.
