CHESS #1399

The semi-finals lineup in the Magnus Invitational is Ding Liren vs Magnus Carlsen, and Hikaru Nakamura vs Fabiano Caruana.

Premium

At The Diagram, White to play (White: Ding Vs Black: Carlsen, Game 3, League, Magnus Invitational 2020), White has only one decent move. He played 15. Rxe5! Bxe5 ?! Maybe 15.—O-O 16. Qh4 f6 17. Qxh5 fg5 18. Bd3 Rxf2 19. Qh7+ Kf7 20. Qh5+ forcing a perpetual is the best option but black is behind in the match. The game finished 16. Qxf7+ Kd8 17. Ba3 a6 18. Rd1 Kc8 19. Rxd7 Bh2+ 20. Kh1 axb5 21. Rxc7+ Bxc7 22. Nxe6 Be5 23. Bf8 Bc6 24. Bxg7 Bd6 25. Bxh8 Rxa2 26. Qg8+ Kd7 27. Nf8+ (1-0).

Devangshu Datta New Delhi

3 min read Last Updated : May 01 2020 | 10:13 PM IST

The semi-finals lineup in the Magnus Invitational is Ding Liren vs Magnus Carlsen, and Hikaru Nakamura vs Fabiano Caruana. It’s been anything but a smooth progression. Carlsen lost two matches, to Anish Giri (who also beat Caruana) and Ding. Ding lost in extra-time in Armageddon to Nakamura and Caruana, while Nakamura lost an Armageddon to Carlsen and to Caruana.

The dark horse has been Caruana, who only started taking speed formats seriously after it cost him a world title match. While “Don Fabiano” was beaten by Carlsen here, apart from losing to Giri, he won quite a few tight matches as

Topics : CHESS Chess Tournament World Chess Championship

What you get on BS Premium?

Unlock 30+ premium stories daily hand-picked by our editors, across devices on browser and app.
Pick your 5 favourite companies, get a daily email with all news updates on them.
Full access to our intuitive epaper - clip, save, share articles from any device; newspaper archives from 2006.
Preferential invites to Business Standard events.
Curated newsletters on markets, personal finance, policy & politics, start-ups, technology, and more.

VIEW ALL FAQs

Need More Information - write to us at assist@bsmail.in