After Monday's fun and exciting blitz tournament, the real play started in this year's edition of Norway Chess on Tuesday. With victories with the white pieces, GMs Viswanathan Anand and Wesley So won their respective games against GMs Maxime Vachier-Lagrave and Teimour Radjabov. The other games ended.
This week Robert Ris shows how David Navara managed to beat the currently popular line with 3.a6 against the Queens Gambit Declined in a fine and instructive game played in the Czech Championship 2022. | "Fast and Furious" is available on-demand with a ChessBase Premium Account. You can <a href="https://account.chessbase.com/en/create-account" target=" blank">register a Premium account here</a>.
Round six saw a shake-up of the standings after two crucial games ended decisively, with GM Levon Aronian swiftly beating GM Maxime Vachier-Lagrave in just 25 moves, and GM Leinier Dominguez winning a hair-raising and heart-breaking battle against the local hero GM Bogdan-Daniel Deac. The remaining games.
An action packed day saw five matches decided in the playoffs and one match (Caruana-Xiong) made it all the way to Armageddon, finishing in a dramatic time scramble. After all was said and done, Aronian, Dominguez, Sevian, and Caruana from the Open Field along with Krush, Tokhirjonova, Lee, and Abrahamyan from the Women’s Field advanced to the next stage of the Champions Bracket. | Photos: Austin and Crystal Fuller, Saint Louis Chess Club, Lennart Ootes