Gausdal April 25th - round 8
Yesterday, in round 7 Magnus won a nice game against veteran and runner-up GM Lajos Portisch.
The Hungarian choose an unusual opening and tried to hang on to his acquisition on c4. Magnus was slightly better when he opted for an exchange sack with Rxd5 instead of Bxd5.
The position was probably unclear or better for white with several only-moves for black to try to secure his king.After Nxb5 Lajos should have played Qxb5 instead of axb5 with good drawing chances in the queen endgame. As it turned out white will win the b-pawn to be 2 pawns up and Portisch resigned.
Krasenkow struggled against the dangerous tactician Lie but in the end he won to keep within half a point of Magnus.
Today, as black against IM Krush Magnus thought he was slightly better after the opening, but then missed several tactics, most notably, after Qc4, Rd2, Qxb5, then c4 wins a piece for white. Afterwards Magnus was slightly worse, but Krush was happy to simplify to a drawn rook ending.
Kuloats, as black against Krasenkow won a pawn early and looked clearly better until Krasenkow got a tactical trick in the endgame to secure a draw. Portisch and Rozentalis won to reach +2 and shared third.
Before the last round Magnus is leading with 6/8 ahead of Krasenkow at 5,5/8, and as they meet tomorrow one of them will win the group (Magnus in case of draw).
Their expected scores are 6,36 and 6 points respectively so they are both on track.
In GM-B Bromberger continued his impressive performance, winning with white (yesterday) and drawing with black today reaching 6,5/8.
The Hungarian choose an unusual opening and tried to hang on to his acquisition on c4. Magnus was slightly better when he opted for an exchange sack with Rxd5 instead of Bxd5.
The position was probably unclear or better for white with several only-moves for black to try to secure his king.After Nxb5 Lajos should have played Qxb5 instead of axb5 with good drawing chances in the queen endgame. As it turned out white will win the b-pawn to be 2 pawns up and Portisch resigned.
Krasenkow struggled against the dangerous tactician Lie but in the end he won to keep within half a point of Magnus.
Today, as black against IM Krush Magnus thought he was slightly better after the opening, but then missed several tactics, most notably, after Qc4, Rd2, Qxb5, then c4 wins a piece for white. Afterwards Magnus was slightly worse, but Krush was happy to simplify to a drawn rook ending.
Kuloats, as black against Krasenkow won a pawn early and looked clearly better until Krasenkow got a tactical trick in the endgame to secure a draw. Portisch and Rozentalis won to reach +2 and shared third.
Before the last round Magnus is leading with 6/8 ahead of Krasenkow at 5,5/8, and as they meet tomorrow one of them will win the group (Magnus in case of draw).
Their expected scores are 6,36 and 6 points respectively so they are both on track.
In GM-B Bromberger continued his impressive performance, winning with white (yesterday) and drawing with black today reaching 6,5/8.
H.Carlsen
Gausdal, April 25th 20007
Comments:
Posted by: Nina
Gratulerer med turneringsseieren Magnus!!!
Posted by: Sam
Congratulations to Magnus on another successful tournament! Another good win today. Well done!
Posted by: Gegga
Fantastisk bra. Klar turneringsseier til slutt. Imponerende. Hjelper også godt på selvtilliten videre, noe som er svært viktig!
Posted by: Gegga
Stor avslutning for Carlsen-slekta! Ingrid og Ellen gjorde det jo også bra! Og han far sjøl avsluttet jo også med seier! Regner med at stemningen er stor i familien!
Posted by: Peter
This is the worst blog on the Web. Your son wins the Gausdal 7 out of 9 and no update.
Posted by: Gegga
Many of us are eager to hear Henrik's thoughts about Magnus' win at Gausdal. But calling it the worst blog on the web is just silly. Perhaps Henrik is busy with something? It takes time to update a blog all the time, and Henrik does that when he pleases.
But hopefully he updates it during the weekend!
:-)
But hopefully he updates it during the weekend!
:-)
Posted by: Henrik C.
Nina, Sam,Gegga,
thanks alot !
Peter,
I'm glad to hear you have high expectations. (I'm not sure you would if you knew me better :-)
thanks alot !
Peter,
I'm glad to hear you have high expectations. (I'm not sure you would if you knew me better :-)
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