Puzzle — find the winning move that would have beaten Carlsen
Magnus Carlsen, who has never won the chess World Cup, needs to defeat an 18-year-old Indian in the second game of a two-game mini-match final at Baku on Wednesday to win the match. A 1-1 score will mean speed tie-break games on Thursday.
The encounter is a true inter-generation battle at the highest level, as Carlsen, 32, the world No 1, takes on Rameshbabu “Pragg” Praggnanandhaa, 18. As last week, Praggnanandhaa has already knocked out the US world No 3 Hikaru Nakamura, and the Indian star followed up last weekend by eliminating the world No 2 and reigning US champion Fabiano Caruana, by 3.5-2.5 in the semi-final. was a thrilling marathon that was level until around move 30 when the Indian won a pawn by a subtle sequence. Thereafter Praggnanandhaa conceived the grandiose plan of marching his king across the board in the face of harassing queen checks to support his passed pawn.
Praggnanandhaa’s success has already qualified him for the eight-player 2024 Candidates, which will decide the official challenger to China’s world champion, Ding Liren, who succeeded to the crown after Carlsen abdicated earlier this year. He will be the third youngest Candidate ever, after Carlsen and Bobby Fischer.
For his part, Carlsen has already defeated Vincent Keymer, 18, and Dommaraju Gukesh, 17, from the new teenage generation and will relish today’s struggle. However, last weekend’s World Cup semi-final against the lowly ranked Azerbaijani Nijat Abasov, the surprise hometown hero, which Carlsen won 1.5-0.5, had a moment when the underdog could have turned the tables on the No 1.Magnus Carlsen v Nijat Abasov, World Cup semi-final, Baku 2023. Black chose 1 . . . Rg6 and lost.
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