{"id":7893,"date":"2013-05-19T04:30:36","date_gmt":"2013-05-19T04:30:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/russia-s-karjakin-wins-norway-chess-tournament\/"},"modified":"2013-05-19T04:30:32","modified_gmt":"2013-05-19T04:30:32","slug":"russia-s-karjakin-wins-norway-chess-tournament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/russia-s-karjakin-wins-norway-chess-tournament\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia’s Karjakin Wins Norway Chess Tournament"},"content":{"rendered":"

{{Russia’s Sergey Karjakin won the \u20ac100,000 ($130,000) Norway chess championship on Saturday after drawing against Veselin Topalov of Bulgaria.}}<\/p>\n

Karjakin needed only a draw against Topalov to take the top prize after the world No. 1 player Magnus Carlsen failed to win against Levon Aronian from Armenia, ranked No. 2.<\/p>\n

Karjakin led the nine-day tournament from the beginning, winning his first four games and starting the day on 5.5 points, half a point ahead of Carlsen. He took over five hours to secure the draw.<\/p>\n

Playing white, Karjakin handed an early initiative to his opponent with a passive bishop move to e3, giving Topalov hope of a first victory in this tournament.<\/p>\n

“I got into a bad position, but I knew if I could get a draw I was in with a good chance of winning,” Karjakin said. “O.K. I didn’t play very well here today, but I thought that I would still have huge chances for first place.”<\/p>\n

There had been high hopes for Carlsen, playing on home ground, but the 22-year-old Norwegian said he had not played his best chess since the event began here on May 7.<\/p>\n

“I think my play was a little off. In general, the positions I got from white openings weren’t that bad. I just made some mistakes later on,” Calsen said. “Karjakin deserves to win.”<\/p>\n

Carlsen faces India’s five-time world champion Viswanathan Anand in November in the holder’s home town of Chennai.<\/p>\n

The pair met earlier in the tournament, neither securing a victory which would have handed one of them the psychological advantage going into the final few months of their preparation.<\/p>\n

The Norway tournament attracted eight of the world’s top 10 players.<\/p>\n

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