Magnus Carlsen took the Gashimov Memorial in Shamkir for the third year in a row. That’s pretty impressive since it’s always been a Super-GM. This time, the number of decisive games was woefully low. But Carlsen did enough to pull ahead of the field.
The world champion went unbeaten and scored 6 points from 9 games with three wins, against Anish Giri, Veselin Topalov and Radek Wojtaszek. He was happy to conclude a quick last round draw with Ding Liren. That was a 2885 performance rating for Carlsen. It was a decent performance from him, and the win against Giri was a ...
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First Published: Fri, May 04 2018. 22:08 IST
