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In the meantime Anish was also playing a game of chess, but
he wasn’t finding it too demanding:
I forgot to talk about this game, by the way. I was winning
the whole time, so I kind of forgot about it, and basically I was too winning,
too winning for words.
The thing is, when you are inexperienced you don’t realise
how lost you are sometimes, so it comes with experience to resign at the right
moment. Let’s say it’s fine when somebody doesn’t resign in such a position if
he’s not strong enough, like my opponent, but sometimes the opponent is strong
Pentala Harikrishna, Poland s no. 2
Radoslaw Wojtaszek and Sweden s no. 1
Nils Grandelius are excellent replacements.
Then, on the eve of the tournament, Daniil Dubov was also forced to cancel after someone close to him tested positive for COVID-19. His late replacement is 22-year-old German Grandmaster
Carlsen has won the Masters group of the event a record 7 times since 2008, when he shared 1st along with Levon Aronian. Caruana is the reigning champion and in fact only three other players (Levon Aronian in 2012 and 2014, Hikaru Nakamura in 2011 and Wesley So in 2017) have managed to win the event in the last 10 years.
Whether Carlsen can triumph again may depend on whether he recovers his form from earlier in 2020. The 30-year-old had an immensely successful year, winning a total of 9 online events and one over-the-board event (Norway Chess), but Wesley So crashed his 30th birthday party by winning the Skilling Open final, while his Airthings Masters came to an end in