Chess Magnus Carlsen to face Alireza Firouzja as No 1 battles dip in form
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Norway’s world champion, beaten in his last four events, meets Wijk winner, candidates leader and arch-rival on first day of $200,000 Invitational
The 10-tournament online $1.5m Meltwater Champions Tour resumes todayon Saturday at 4pm, free and live online, with the $200,000 Magnus Carlsen Invitational, and another testing day for the below par world No 1. Carlsen has missed out on first place in four successive events since his 30th birthday in November.
Online, Carlsen has twice finished behind America’s Wesley So and once behind Azerbaijan’s Teimour Radjabov; while over-the- board at Tata Steel Wijk aan Zee, Carlsen trailed in sixth place, his worst placing at the “chess Wimbledon” for more than a decade, The shock Netherlands winner at Wijk, Jorden van Foreest, 21, was rewarded with a wildcard place on the Tour. Continue reading...
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