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"It's a chance to press him and show who is the best, but I can't promise anything." He went for number three, and as a result he is playing So right away in the first round. | Photo: Maria Emelianova.īelow are the final standings of the blitz, with the top five getting an extra white game in the main tournament:Ģ017 Altibox Norway Chess | Blitz Final Standings #Īs the winner of the tournament Carlsen could choose his lot number. Kramnik (here next to Carlsen) gives himself two more years. My guess would be another two years, but who knows." Now I still believe that pretty soon I will not manage. But to my big surprise I'm still keeping quite a high position on the rating. I was pretty sure I was going to be not able to fight with the best players on equal terms. | Photo: Maria Emelianova.Īt the press conference Kramnik was asked about his high ranking at his age: "Some 10 years ago I was sure I will not play after 40. Kramnik and Karjakin chatting after their game. Giri: "Before you know, some very strong player can be the Ludvig Hammer of the tournament." | Photo: Maria Emelianova. It seems that everybody is good but after a couple of rounds we'll find our losers. We've seen many times players of this caliber ending on minus three, minus four, losing four games in a row. He doesn't necessarily need to be Norwegian. The other day you have a top tournament like this and before you know, some very strong player can be the Ludvig Hammer of the tournament. Sometimes you have Jon Ludvig Hammer player and everybody hopes to beat him. This was about Giri's following remark from the press conference, about whether it's possible to score many wins in a tight and strong field like this.
His colleagues made fun of him during dinner, especially after Carlsen had sent a tweet. Giri finished last with a pretty horrible score: 1.5/9. (Karjakin had nodded that he didn't mind.) As it turned out, he took the "good" bottle. That was because, before Carlsen had arrived at the board, Kramnik had stopped at Karjakin's board and taken one of the two bottles that were there. Karjakin couldn't resist a smile, but also Vladimir Kramnik, sitting behind Carlsen, was enjoying it very much. Shortly before the clocks were started, Carlsen opened an Isklar water bottle on the table, and splashed out quite a bit of water. OverallIn ClassClassNumberDriverCodriverTotalSS111O4WD180Brandon SemenukJohn Hall1:24:30.83:10.22O4WD199Travis PastranaRhianon Gelsomino1:24:54.23:07.33O4WD43Ken BlockAlessandro Gelsomino1:25:20.63:11.
The view over the Stavanger region and Sola airport was spectacular, but hardly anyone had eyes for that.Ī helicopter landing at Stavanger Sola airport today.Įven a small and rather funny incident in round five, just before his game with Sergey Karjakin, didn't put Carlsen off balance. #Norwa圜hess covered everywhere.īesides about two dozen media people there were also about 50 spectators (including the mayor!) on the hotel's 10th floor. Great to see that the chess interest in Norway is back almost at the same level as in December.