Norway’s world champion resigned four moves into the second game of his semi-final with Ding Liren but still reached the final of the Chessable Masters
Magnus Carlsen in another major final hardly rates a headline at the moment, such is the world champion’s dominance over his rivals. The 29-year-old Norwegian was at the height of his skills as he defeated America’s world No 2 and China’s world No 3 at the $150,000 Chessable Masters this week and so put himself in pole position for his fourth tournament victory in three months, with only one failure in the entire period.
The seasoned chess24 commentators, eight-time
Russian champion Peter Svidler and four-time US champion Yasser Seirawan, who described Carlsen’s play as “poetry when he’s on his game,” were in awe. However, his semi-final against China’s Ding Liren will be remembered for a unique incident which put the match in the record books.