Norway Final: Karjakin repeat 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.

Final Round

Daniel King shows the highlights of round 9

Carlsen, Magnus 1-0 Agdestein, Simen
Carlsen won this like he usually wins games. He had some very slight pressure from the opening, but it is hard to say it was something special. The game became an endgame that was almost equal, but not quite, and Carlsen tortured his opponent who eventually cracked. The World Champion scores a +2 and obtained second place.

Despite his best efforts Agdestein did finish last, but he had a great tournament regardless and he had opportunities to have scored much better than he did

Carlsen is second place again, and it is hard to say he is satisfied with his performance

Giri, Anish ½-½ Svidler, Peter
A very uneventful repetition in less than 20 moves.

Svidler's only decisive game this tournament was a loss to Caruana

Kramnik, Vladimir 0-1 Grischuk, Alexander
Kramnik went all out in this game by sacrificing a pawn for a huge pawn center and possibilities of attack against Grischuk's king. However Black's queen was very active and White's king was rather exposed, so it was not trivial to make progress; actually Black had just enough to hold the balance. At some point Kramnik overpressed and Grischuk precisely pushed back the attack giving him an important last round win.

Despite claiming that he wasn't playing well in this tournament and that he was more excited for the blitz than anything else, Grischuk finished in a good third place

Caruana, Fabiano 0-1 Karjakin, Sergey
A strategically interesting game. Caruana seemed to have a strong grip on the position with the control over the c-file and some pressure on Black's position, but he allowed Karjakin's pieces to become too active after the Italian player made many inaccuracies. This allowed Karjakin to create a powerful passed pawn that Caruana could simply not deal with, and this passed pawn gave Karjakin the key to winning the Norway No Logo super tournament.

Norway 2014 Champion: Sergey Karjakin

Topalov, Veselin ½-½ Aronian, Levon
Topalov had some pressure in the position, but somehow Aronian's breaks were precisely and powerfully timed and they gave him full equality. The game finished in a completely dead drawn endgame.

Topalov recovered near the end of the tournament and he finished on 50%

Final Standings

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