Norway 04: Karjakin lone winner

The Unibet Norway Chess Tournament will take place in Stavanger, Norway from June 2nd to June 13th. The tournament features some of the best players in the world and has a massive rating average of 2774.

Free Day

The players enjoyed some recreational activities during the free day, as we all as visiting the Scholastic Tournament that was being held:

The players were mesmerized by this "Mindball" game which measured brain activity to move a ball. The winner was the one whose brain activity overpowered to the other! In the above picture Sergey Karjakin is playing his wife Galiya Kamalova. The organizers promised not to reveal the results!

Levon Aronian had a go at it against some of the local kids

Veselin Topalov being interviewed after being the first grandmaster to win a game of Mindball...

Simen Agdestein in action, but he lost

Magnus Carlsen also visited the scholastic tournament

The tournament took place in Vitenfabrikken, a science factory for kids.
There were lots of interesting stuff to do in addition to chess!

If there was any doubt that chess is popular in Norway...

Round Four

Agdestein, Simen ½-½ Vladimir Kramnik
A relatively dry game. If anyone had any chances it was Kramnik, but by the time he had something it was more of an illusion than anything else. Agdestein holds his fourth draw in a row and Kramnik remains in a solid second place with +1.

Solo second now that Grischuk lost: Vladimir Kramnik

Caruana, Fabiano ½-½ Giri, Anish
Probably one of the more interesting games of today's round. The attacks on opposite flanks guaranteed some excitement, and indeed many tactics made the game a toss-up. However at the end both Giri and Caruana were able to destroy the opponent's initiative and the game fizzled into a draw.

Topalov, Veselin ½-½ Carlsen, Magnus
Topalov came up with an interesting novelty, and Carlsen responded by grabbing pawns! This sounds much more exciting than it actually was as the game ended in a repetition on move 20.

Topalov did not want to push the issue in a game that still had life in it

Aronian, Levon ½-½ Svidler, Peter
A deep Grunfeld, as is common in Svidler's life. With perfect defense the Russian managed to get a slightly worse endgame that he had absolutely no problem holding.

Levon Aronian's deviousness was insufficient for a win

Peter Svidler: "15.Bg5 was a very devious move. I had to spend 20 minutes on it, that's 20 minutes of my life I will never get back. What happened Levon, I thought we were friends!"

Karjakin, Sergey 1-0 Grischuk, Alexander

Daniel King shows the game Karjakin vs Grischuk

Alexander Grischuk: "I'm playing terrible in this tournament, the fact
that I won two games in a row doesn't mean much"

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