World Champion Magnus Carlsen on Monday picked up another one of those victories he has become famous for, squeezing blood from stones vs. GM Shakhriyar Mamedyarov. Carlsen now leads the 2022 Norway Chess in Stavanger alone after six rounds and got his live rating up to 2870, 19 points from his highest.
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.
Rather than having a traditional drawing of start numbers, Norway Chess has made a tradition of starting out with a blitz tournament to decide the start numbers for each player in the main event. American GM Wesley So took a decisive lead by beating GM Magnus Carlsen in their round-six encounter and.