After an exciting tournament full of drama and suspense, GM Magnus Carlsen’s won the 2025 Norway Chess trophy, beating the runner-up by just half a point.
From www.chess.com/…
GM Magnus Carlsen has won his seventh Norway Chess title after escaping and then almost winning a lost position against GM Arjun Erigaisi. With seconds to spare, he took a draw, which seemed to guarantee the title as GM Fabiano Caruana was beating GM Gukesh Dommaraju, but then Caruana let the win slip... only for the world champion to make the last mistake. Gukesh was inconsolable as he realized his title chances were gone, though he still took third place ahead of GM Hikaru Nakamura, who lost to GM Wei Yi in armageddon.
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The defining moment of the tournament was the surprising win by Gukesh Dommaraju over Carlsen in round 6 and the double fist slam on the table by Carlsen in frustration before he offered his hand in resignation.
Now let’s calmly solve today’s puzzle composed in 1932 by Estonian chess grandmaster and chess writer Paul Keres (1916-1975). The unofficial Chessmetrics system places Keres in the top 10 players in the world between approximately 1936 and 1965, and overall he had one of the highest winning percentages of all grandmasters in history.
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