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Magnus Carlsen won his fourth classical super GM tournament in a row with a round to spare

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Devangshu Datta
Magnus Carlsen won his fourth classical super GM tournament in a row with a round to spare. There's been a turnaround in form for the world champion since he retained his title in October 2018. At that point of time, his Elo was 2,839 and he was experiencing a prolonged slump. 

Since then, as mentioned above, he's won the world blitz title and four classical Super-GM tournaments. He's played 58 classical games without a loss and pulled his live Elo to 2,875. That's within touching distance of the all-time record of 2,882, which he achieved in May 2014. He's also played

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