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by kevinspraggettonchess · Published June 16, 2017 · Updated June 16, 2017

Crashing and Burning in Norway Chess

Norway Chess 2017 will likely go down in history for both the World Champion (Carlsen) and vice-World Champion (Karjakin) having their worse results in recent memory. Infact, it was only Carlsen’s somewhat lucky win against Karjakin yesterday that kept Carlsen from occupying last place in the tournament!

[Event "5th Norway Chess 2017"] [Date "2017.6.15"] [Round "8.2"] [White "Carlsen, Magnus"] [Black "Karjakin, Sergey"] [Result "1-0"] 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nc3 Bb4 4.e3 O-O 5.Bd3 d5 6.cxd5 exd5 7.Nge2 Re8 8.Bd2 Bf8 9.O-O b6 10.Rc1 c5 11.Nf4 Bb7 12.Qf3 Na6 13.Rfd1 cxd4 14.exd4 Nc7 15.Bc2 Bd6 16.Be3 Ne4 17.Ba4 Re7 18.Bb3 Qd7 19.h3 Nxc3 20.bxc3 Bc6 21.Nh5 Re6 22.Bc2 Ba4 23.c4 dxc4 24.d5 Rg6 25.Bd4 Bxc2 26.Rxc2 Qa4 27.Rcc1 Qxa2 ( 27...Ne8!{Black is better} ) 28.Nxg7{[#]} Rxg7 29.Bxg7 Kxg7 30.Qg4+ Kf8 31.Qh4 Qb2 32.Rxc4 Ne8 33.Re1 Qf6 34.Qxh7 Qg7 35.Qc2 Qf6 36.Rg4 Bc5 37.Re2 Qh6 38.g3 Nf6 39.Rh4 Qg7 40.Kg2 Qg5 ( 40...Nxd5!$15 ) 41.Qc3{[#] Now and only now is White better} Bd6 42.Rh8+ Ng8 43.Re4 Qg7 44.Rxg8+ 1-0 You must activate JavaScript to enhance chess game visualization.