Magnus Carlsen talks to Kaja Snare, GM David Howell, and IM Jovanka Houska about the second day of quarter finals in the New in Chess Classic, the 5th event on the $1.5 million Meltwater
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Magnus forced a draw in the last game, effectively eliminating Teimour Radjabov in the quarter finals. Magnus now proceeds to the semi-finals where he will face GM Levon Aronian.
Carlsen’s breakthrough against Radjabov came in Game 2, with a masterclass performance. While Carlsen remain cool, calm, and collected, Radjabov crumbled under pressure and was visibly frustrated. The game set the tone for the rest of the match.
The New in Chess Classic tournament is held from April 24th to May 2nd, 2021. The players taking part in this tournament are: current World Champion Magnus Carlsen, Wesley So, Levon Aronian, Sergey Karjakin, Shakhriyar Mamedyarov, Alireza Firouzja, Hikaru Nakamura, Teimour Radjabov, Vidit Gujrathi, Lenier Dominguez, Le Quang Liem, Jan Kryzsztof Duda, Aryan Tari, Gawain Jones, Johan Sebastien Christiansen and R. Praggnanandhaa.
The 3-day preliminary stage sees the 16 players play each other once before the bottom 8 are eliminated while the top 8 advance to a knockout consisting of 2-day, four game rapid matches. In the event of a tie on the second day, the match advances to to blitz (5|3) and armageddon (White has five minutes, Black four with no increment) tiebreaks.
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