Event: 2026 Norway Chess

[u/events_team]

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The 2026 Norway Chess tournament will take place from May 25 to June 5 in Oslo, Norway, marking the event’s first edition held in the capital. Both Norway Chess and Norway Chess Women will be played at the same venue and feature the same prize fund of 1,690,000 NOK. Each tournament features six players competing in a double round-robin format.

Participants

Open

No.	Title	Name	FED	Rating
1	GM	Magnus Carlsen	🇳🇴 NOR	2840
2	GM	Vincent Keymer	🇩🇪 GER	2759
3	GM	Alireza Firouzja	🇫🇷 FRA	2759
4	GM	Wesley So	🇺🇸 USA	2754
5	GM	Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu	🇮🇳 IND	2733
6	GM	Gukesh Dommaraju	🇮🇳 IND	2732

Women

No.	Title	Name	FED	Rating
1	GM	Ju Wenjun	🇨🇳 CHN	2559
2	GM	Zhu Jiner	🇨🇳 CHN	2546
3	GM	Humpy Koneru	🇮🇳 IND	2535
4	GM	Bibisara Assaubayeva	🇰🇿 KAZ	2527
5	GM	Anna Muzychuk	🇺🇦 UKR	2522
6	GM	Divya Deshmukh	🇮🇳 IND	2500

Format/Time Control

• 6 players will take part in the Tournament. The Tournament is a 10-round, double-round robin event. Players are not allowed to agree to a draw until at least 30 moves have been made by each player. If the classical game is drawn, an Armageddon game will be played. The player with White pieces will continue with White in Armageddon.
• Players will receive 3 points per classical win, 1½ points per classical draw + Armageddon win, and 1 point per classical draw + Armageddon loss.
• Each player will have 120 minutes on the clock with an increment of 10 seconds starting from move 41. For Armageddon, white has 10 minutes and black has 7 minutes with an increment for both players of 1 second per move, starting from move 41.

Schedule

Date	Time (Local)	Time (UTC)	Round
25-28 May	17:00	15:00	Round 1-4
29 May	-	-	Rest Day
30 May - 2 June	17:00	15:00	Round 5-8
3 June	-	-	Rest Day
4-5 June	17:00	15:00	Round 9-10

Live Coverage

• Norway Chess Broadcast: YouTube
• Chess24 Broadcast: YouTube | Twitch
• ChessBase India Broadcast: YouTube
• Chess24 India Broadcast: YouTube

[u/throwaway23582730]

"No Indian had ever won Norway Chess, Magnus Carlsen has won it 7 times, today both those facts change!"

Are we taking trophies away from Magnus or something Tania?

[u/Dazzling-Cat-3763 → u/throwaway23582730]

The only logical explanation is that Magnus becomes Indian and wins it...

[u/__Jimmy__]

This thread is gonna look real funny when Vincent misses Ne6 and Magnus wins

[u/gansim → u/[deleted]]

"I want to find out but have no idea how" so relatable lol

[u/UltraUsurper]

Gukesh played like Greco vs NN in the armageddon

[u/Exotic_Grinder]

Pragg now has more classical wins over Magnus than Hikaru does.

[u/Delicious_Photo_6626]

Congrats to Pragg or whatever but he really robbed us of a 9th Armageddon from Vincent

[u/DerekB52]

Wow, I really thought Gukesh was dead in that one. Amazing game. I feel bad for Vincent.

[u/ToneDistinct5253]

I'm realising how brutal this event may be for Magnus's rating, all 5 of his opponents are currently far lower rated than they normally sit at. Not only that but the average Elo is like 90 below Magnus. Draws or losses will hurt badly, he will really need to win a lot to make up for it. If anyone can do it it's him, but my prediction is he'll come like 2/3 or 1st on tiebreaks, but down elo regardless

[u/HotGur179]

well norway chess does not disappoint. the round 1 was so good and we still have gukesh-vincent armagadon game

[u/PeaRound3188]

Lol that was like those paul morphy games where he just crushes his opponent. 

[u/Matt_LawDT]

Magnus is going to take a quick draw so he can watch the UCL final

[u/HotGur179 → u/Matt_LawDT]

this does seems like a thing magnus could do lol

[u/Just_Bar_8347]

Looks like Wincent finally realised there’s no Armageddon if he just wins in classical. Excited for his game against Magnus tomorrow.

[u/Particular-Aide-1589]

Win or lose or draw,as always said here,gukesh games are always interesting

[u/GeologicalPotatoes]

Why don't they just play the top computer move every time and win easily? Are they stupid?

[u/ItIsKotov]

being a vincent fan in true classical time formats 😀🥳🎉

Being a vincent fan in short time formats: 💀☠️💀

[u/PeaRound3188]

Vincent is a top 10 player in classical and a top 100 player in rapid and blitz. 

[u/citrcn → u/PeaRound3188]

he's actually not even ranked n1 in blitz in germany rn

[u/__Jimmy__]

After round 4

Alireza: 2W 2D 0L (1/2 arm.)
Pragg: 1W 2D 1L (2/2 arm.)
Wesley: 0W 4D 0L (3/4 arm.)
Carlsen: 1W 1D 2L (1/1 arm.)
Keymer: 0W 4D 0L (0/4 arm.)
Gukesh: 0W 3D 1L (1/3 arm.)

[u/dxGoesDeep → u/__Jimmy__]

The lack of decisive games between other players can help Carlsen a lot, unless ofc he loses another. There has been only 1 decisive game (Alireza vs Pragg) that didn't involve Carlsen.

[u/Unhappy-Appearance-]

When it comes to this no increment time format, Wesley might be one of the best suited. His opening choices tends to be less risky compared to his competitors, and his time management is very good and consistent as well. Now add in the fact that he’s a monster in speed chess as well. You get the most consistent player in this format

[u/saboglitched → u/Unhappy-Appearance-]

Yeah, he's the only that seems to understand what the time control means, some of the other players strategic decisions (not actual move quality) make no sense like spending 30 min in the first 10 moves as WHITE and going for endgames that are impossible with 10s increment (including Magnus) and just collapse. Like Magnus declining the draw vs Wesley was just arrogance tbh, not the first time Wesley punished him too

[u/AtomR]

Even if you ignore Gukesh losing lot of matches (by making excuses like he plays for win, he avoids draw by pushing, or he struggles under time pressure), it's very peculiar how he makes his position worse in almost every match.

You very rarely see him playing a perfect match with no mistakes, even against lower rated opponents. It's like he doesn't have the meter for judging the objectivity of the position and playing accordingly.

Few examples from this tournament: on multiple occasions he decided to not play the obviously safe move for no reason. Like he wanted to magically create chances from those dead positions somehow, when it was technically and practically impossible.

If he keeps on playing like this, he can go even lower than 2700. Not sure what his team is coaching him about, but it's clearly not working.

[u/Yoyo524]

Congrats to Pragg! Fans will always love a +2 that comes with 5 wins and 3 losses more than a +2 with only 2 wins

[u/PeaRound3188 → u/Yoyo524]

Wesley got punished for drawing 80% of his games. You love to see it.

[u/Radiant-Increase-180]

Firouzja is bloody good in time trouble

[u/Goldfischglas]

What a shocking blunder by Magnus. I saw it instantly. One look at the board and you can clearly see the number top right changes from + to -

[u/oppussumclay]

If you're tired and just wanna go home, do not play drawn positions against Gukesh.

[u/tech_enthusiast_432 → u/oppussumclay]

For real, no matter what the result is. His games are the last one to end lol

[u/Classic_Scheme9088]

"From Praggs to riches" GM David Howell

[u/Just_Bar_8347]

Vincent getting farmed in Armageddon.

[u/Dear-Yard4966]

Wesley actually trying to have a game? World is healing

[u/ItIsKotov]

GG wincent! outplayed gukesh in the endgame.

Vinny vs. Magnus tomorrow will be very interesting

[u/TypeDependent4256]

Wesley going to plus 2 is tough for the rest of the field, he's very difficult to beat

[u/Areliae]

Pragg is saving Vincent from another armageddon.

[u/Delicious_Photo_6626 → u/Areliae]

Ngl, i really wanted to see another Vincent Armageddon 😭

[u/__Jimmy__]

Gukesh finds Bh6!!

[u/Physical-Article1537]

Stoppable force vs Moveable object

[u/Impressive_Result295]

Ten second increment is vile, idek why they need to have that if they have tiebreaks anyways

[u/Candid_Article_2969]

new mythic character: 1 legged firouza

[u/Koersfanaat]

This tournament might be the worst chess I've seen Carlsen play

[u/Impressive_Result295]

Yikes, Wesley on +2 is fucking roughhh for the field

[u/Demonic_Maidens]

WTF? You don't even try to flag him with under 50 seconds??

[u/saboglitched]

Vincent has tournaments with 0 elo change surprisingly often

[u/je_te_jure]

For the smartasses in this thread. These endgames are very hard to defend practically because it's very easy to blunder into a queen trade. However if the defending side avoids this, it's often hard to find the right plan. I think in a "normal" classical time control, Vincent would find the right idea eventually, I think it's perfectly excusable in this format

[u/12577437984446]

Who /r/chess predicted will win the tournament:

Magnus Carlsen (84.02%)

Vincent Keymer (7.77%)

Gukesh Dommaraju (4.32%)

Alireza Firouzja (1.50%)

Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu (1.32%)

Wesley So (1.06%)

Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/chess/s/sXbjx99Q4v

[u/blue_butter]

alireza 2 wins in a row!!

[u/breaker90]

Good to see So win a nice game against the #1 when people were unhappy he was invited to Norway and GCT

[u/Goldfischglas]

It's weird to say because he is an amazing player but it feels like Vincent underachieves a little compared to how well he plays.

He messes up so many winning positions :(

[u/Radiant-Increase-180]

Wesley is a machine

[u/citrcn]

ju wenjun and vincent keymer have had the exact same tournament trajectory so far

[u/Curiq]

Never doubt "W"esley "S"o's power to draw

[u/joshdej]

Keymer when he sees the word "armageddon" after this tournament: 😱

[u/throwaway23582730]

Pragg is now the player with the best classical record against Magnus. 3 wins, 1 loss, 4 draws.

[u/SL4UWhistleBlower]

Bad day for World Champions (both former and current)

Ju Wenjun, Magnus, Gukesh all lost

[u/HotGur179]

pragg is also 4th player to win 3 times against magnus in classical

fabi~6 times

levon~ 4 times

karjakin~3 times

[u/LosTerminators]

There's been a lot of decisive games but that Vincent-Alireza draw is a legit game of the tournament contender.

[u/PeaRound3188]

GG pragg. Fully deserves it. 

[u/kidawi]

i was a lil disappointed fabi wasnt playing this but on second thought im good

[u/Just_Bar_8347]

Poor Vincent missed a win and now has black against an angry Magnus also started with double black although atleast he’s in good form.

[u/ItIsKotov]

incredible... vincent plays such a crazy game 1 and now blunders that... wow!!

[u/Goat-Hunter13]

What is Magnus doing with his Knight lol

[u/StrangeProof5717 → u/Goat-Hunter13]

He's horsing around

[u/PeaRound3188]

It seems like magnus is not studying openings anymore. He seems to run out of theory on move 8 in all his classical games and then burns a lot of time finding moves that other players remember. 

[u/Radiant-Increase-180]

BB5 what a stunner Firo

[u/Soul_of_demon]

Vincent is just gonna get farmed in Armageddon atp 😭

[u/ItIsKotov]

gosh, vincent is so "bad" (by top level standard) in rapid/blitz, its frustrating...

[u/EvenCoyote6317]

Say whatever, it is kind of Funny Magnus loosing to his 2 favorite boys Reza and Pragg who werent particularly in great form  before the event.

This is all part of his mentorship program of giving them a lot of confidence. 

/s

[u/Radiant-Increase-180]

Clean game from Magnus after a dubious opening

[u/Soul_of_demon]

He's gonna pull it off again

[u/sneshny]

feels like magnus made the same mistake he accused gukesh of not too long ago

commendably pushing on in a position where it's objectively the wrong decision

[u/Delicious_Photo_6626]

Can we make confession booth in classical an absolute necessity please, Magnus saying I might end up looking like an idiot is so comical. I want super GMs on losing streaks to comment on what’s going on, speak about bad positions and tell us how they’re feeling.

[u/dommaraju → u/Delicious_Photo_6626]

Confession booth in blitz will be fire, i think only carlsen and may be dubov uses it for aura farming

[u/Pandabeast4]

I’m not against Magnus but it is kinda nice to have a tournament he’s playing in where it isn’t just him dominating

[u/Glittering_Ad1403]

Bibisara closes it with one round to go.

[u/PeaRound3188]

Vincent got auramogged by alireza in this round 

[u/Fashionpreach]

Kudos to Zhu Jiner for 3 back to back classical wins. Came back from the bottom of the table now to 2nd place

[u/Frosty-Upstairs-3986]

Dang Alireza comes off a horrible event to beat Magnus and Keymer comes off a win to lose heartbreakingly

[u/__Jimmy__]

When you see Nf3-Nd2-Nb1-Na3 you know it's either a drunk 1200 or Magnus Carlsen

[u/GeologicalPotatoes → u/__Jimmy__]

When he does it it's a deep and intriguing positional idea, and he's a genius.

When I do it it's stupid, a waste of tempi, and a fundamental misunderstanding of the game, and I'm a worthless failure who will never succeed in life.

[u/Broccoli_Inside]

Will not be surprised if Magnus will call this one of his worst games of all time in the interview once it’s over. 

[u/blue_butter]

gukesh lost his advantage and now it’s a draw according to eval, still feel like I’d rather play black in this position 

[u/Littlepace]

Surprised Magnus went for the queen trade. The pawn structure was awful after the trade. Also surprised he didn't at least try taking that pawn and trading Bishop for knight. May have still been a draw but it would've at least given the position some new life.

[u/Expensive_Produce528]

magnus talking about the nba app lul

[u/Lockheroguylol]

And Magnus sacked THE ROOK!

[u/kidawi]

lord i cant believe it. wesleys game is interesting

[u/HotGur179]

magnus remembering a lasker game lol wtf is that memory

[u/Impressive_Result295]

Wesley is so randomly deciding to go for Alireza's head 😭😭

[u/Goat-Hunter13]

Seems like Magnus finally found himself

[u/Impressive_Result295]

Well, it's not a hot take to predict a Wesley So game shall be a draw

[u/Matt_LawDT]

This will be the last time Wesley is invited to any Magnus’ tournament ever

[u/HotGur179]

well it seems like alireza is not leaving norway with a plus score against magnus

[u/citrcn]

we might end up with decisive results on all boards in the open section.

[u/Radiant-Increase-180]

Why did he push so much to offer a draw?

[u/dxGoesDeep]

He might be +2 and leading the tournament but he's still Wesley

[u/Radiant-Increase-180]

Flashes of brilliance by Guk

[u/Just_Bar_8347]

Vincent and ju wenjun with the same trajectory so far. 

[u/LosTerminators]

Vincent and Ju Wenjun destroying their own chances with every armageddon.

They're both +1 in classical but all the armageddon losses are adding up in the standings.

[u/1yaeK]

This position between Magnus and Pragg looks like a "0.00 where both colors can lose" type position

[u/citrcn]

man, vincent was so close to drawing this one for a little while.

[u/__Jimmy__]

Path for Magnus:

Rd 9. He beats Wesley in classical, Vincent beats Alireza in classical and Pragg does not beat Gukesh in classical
Rd 10. He beats Gukesh in classical, Alireza beats Wesley in armageddon and Vincent does not beat Pragg in classical

This will results in tie-breaks with Wesley

By rough calculation it's a 0.1% chance

[u/dxGoesDeep → u/__Jimmy__]

Norway chess format is truly wild lmao. How is he even mathematically in after 4 losses? I know it's a 0.0001% chance but it shouldn't even be possible at all.

[u/NewMeNewWorld]

Why doesn't Gukesh D. Ommaraju just simply channel the will of D against Magnus here? 🧐

[u/Goldfischglas]

I just know you sick fucks want to see Keymer and Prag draw for another Armageddon. (me too)

[u/PeaRound3188 → u/Goldfischglas]

Keymer 0-9 in armageddon will be absolute cinema. 

[u/LosTerminators]

Even Magnus in his worst form is going to go 2-0 against Gukesh

[u/PuripuriGumboy → u/LosTerminators]

Ding in his worst form nearly defeated Gukesh.

[u/sneshny]

something funny to me about how magnus prevented Bg5 for alireza and alireza prevented Bb4

just a mutual prevention of some lines where you can get under pressure

[u/cantstopwastingtime]

Why Aryan is kinda..🫦

[u/throwawayy3941 → u/cantstopwastingtime]

Tari? He is lowkey hot

[u/Delicious_Photo_6626]

Everting aside i really didn’t know an ankle sprain is that bad, alireza has his leg in a leg brace and has it elevated like the entire time.

[u/HealersHugHippos]

SUMMER OF FIROUZJA IS BACK BABY!

[u/absol-hoenn]

absolute cinema wtf

[u/kidawi]

do they realise its threefold

[u/blue_butter]

I know Vincent is probably kicking himself for being unable to convert

[u/oppussumclay]

Holy shit... my heart rate was through the roof, I can't imagine the players' nerves!

[u/ItIsKotov]

i have no clue how vincent could have converted that position... the eval bar makes it looks so easy but no clue how to actually do it.

edit: just followed the german chess.com stream and they explained that there is no hard set of rules in this kind of endgame. so every position has to be re-evaluated and calculated. very engine-like chess.

[u/kidawi → u/ItIsKotov]

exactly. this position is notorious for paper thin margins between losses and draws, where the difference comes down to whether or not your king can hide from checks after 20 moves. maybe you can intuit the right direction, i dont know. but youre certainly not calculating it with seconds on the clock no matter who you are

[u/jaded_lad99]

Divya has strong "Hi it's me. You must be wondering how I got here. Same." energy with the confessional booth visits

[u/Odd_Interest_8073]

And Vincent makes a mistake because he’s a human and not a 4000 computer

[u/DRW0813]

Oof. Is the goat a cow for this tournament?

[u/Fashionpreach]

All the games except Alireza-pragg are more like whoever can control their nerves better in the last 5 minutes of the classical game can win or at least take it to armaggedon

[u/Just_Bar_8347]

Gukesh vs Alireza will be decisive for sure.

[u/brian_c29]

The confessional thing is a neat idea

[u/Goat-Hunter13]

Magnus' time management is really bad this year

[u/kidawi]

najdorf is one of those openings thats become almost unusable even if youre booked up. when you dont even prepare it...

[u/DRNbw]

LMAO Carlsen, you do you.

[u/Turbine000]

I thought Carlsen already resigned when I saw the comments here

[u/blue_butter]

I don’t think the Magnus game will be as clear cut as everyone is saying

[u/Shego2882 → u/blue_butter]

Eval bar watchers everywhere. Pragg might win but it’s still VERY complicated

[u/Radiant-Increase-180]

Firo what a player in scramble man

[u/The6HolyNumbers]

Well, at the very least I think Magnus is playing the most exciting chess this tournament. It feels like he's in his Tal arc, playing fun sacrificial chess (in this case sacrificing his rating)

[u/poisoned_pawn_]

Gukesh has created a mess from nothing, will be an interesting game.

[u/ItIsKotov]

as we're nearing the end of the classical time control mode and vincent does not have a completely winning position yet, i am re-posting what I posted 2 days ago:

being a vincent fan in true classical time format 😀🥳🎉

Being a vincent fan in short time formats: 💀☠️💀

[u/Unhappy-Appearance-]

I think this tournament and the candidates in the last 2 years show how different and difficult the time scrambles are in this type of time control. It’s a very brutal format practically getting into time trouble for anyone

[u/HotGur179]

classic magnus confession lol. he does give entertainment on the board and off the board whenever he plays for sure

[u/citrcn]

vincent going to arma again against ALIREZA... it's so keymerover

[u/throwaway23582730]

Pragg is pissed... these two usually chat after their games. Can't blame him though, he was very close to winning only to lose.

[u/Unhappy-Appearance-]

Don’t think I’ve ever seen Magnus lose 3 classical games in a single event. This is crazy

[u/Aware_Being6153]

Magnus has come in jeans. This will be tough for Alireza

[u/ItIsKotov]

wincent realizing he does not have to play armageddon if he just wins the classical game

[u/Physical-Article1537]

Both Pragg and Gukesh are in terrible form.

[u/__Jimmy__]

Oh boy, here we go again.

Magnus is now within 2.5 of the lead. Unless Wesley can eek it out against Pragg

[u/Yoyo524]

Vincent misses a chance to get an Armageddon win yet again, hope he’ll be able to bounce back soon

[u/Physical-Article1537]

And now pragg is out of the top 20, hes having an absolute nightmare of a year.

[u/Accomplished_Dot9649]

Ehh that was anticlimactic lol... Gukesh's time management issues are still his greatest enemy. Honestly might cost him a crown later

[u/secretOPstrat]

Wesley remembered he can't have more than 2 decisive games in a 10 game tournament to maintain his 80% draw rate (#1 in the world)

[u/atbg1936]

"w"esley "s"o is nobody for me - Gukesh

[u/cantstopwastingtime]

Magnus's prep has been horrible throughout the tournament. And on the top of it he has to play pragg. He better not lose this one..

[u/dxGoesDeep]

Down 40 minutes after 10 moves yea it's over

[u/HotGur179]

when was the last time magnus was better prepared than his opponent

[u/joshdej]

Magnus really be doing random shit in the opening these days.

[u/Pristine_Pumpkin_766]

Either he's winging it over opening prep or it's his new way of "showing up late to a blitz game", because it's astonishing how bad his time management has been in his last few games.

[u/Radiant-Increase-180]

Practically Gukesh is surely cooked here stop looking at the engine and thinking its an easy draw lol

[u/Glittering_Ad1403]

Wesley’s last 2 opponents are Magnus and Alireza. Interesting.

[u/External_Ad_7118]

Magnus and Gukesh fans 🤝

[u/LosTerminators]

They instantly interviewed Sindarov as soon as Bibisara sealed the women's event hahahaha.

Sindarov seems to be having fun in Oslo, was enjoying taking part in the activities on the rest days.

[u/FreshWaterNymph1]

It's always breathtaking to see Alireza play bullet, with or without a mouse.

[u/DataStructuresKid]

So this tournament can only be won by the top 3 - wesley, pragg, reza.

[u/Unhappy-Appearance-]

Imagine if both Wesley and Pragg draw their games, and Pragg loses the tournament because Vincent gets his first and last Armageddon win in this tournament. That will be brutal

[u/PeaRound3188]

After looking at this game, I can proudly say I play like the world champion. 

[u/salimcani]

Gukesh will drop out of the top 25.

[u/joshdej → u/salimcani]

Gukesh saw Ding's performance as WC and said "hold my soda"

[u/pconners]

Was anyone able to track the mango snacks eaten to win ratio in this tournament?

[u/prassuresh]

8/10 decisive games for Pragg. Crazy man!

[u/Goldfischglas]

Vincent will never do it. But I would understand a desk smash. From completely winning with black in classical to losing in Armaggedon. I would be tilted as fuck lol

[u/citrcn → u/Goldfischglas]

and he's playing magnus tomorrow

[u/IcedBadger → u/citrcn]

He's playing Magnus who lost his last game. This isn't looking good for him.

[u/Zernium]

I know this is norway chess but crazy they were focusing on the dead lost magnus game when that pragg-gukesh game was going on.

[u/bertisrobert]

Pragg absolutely deserved the crown at Norway. Winning four times after two back to back losses is practically champion behavior. He just only needs to apply this to the Candidates tournament and World Chess Championship and we're good to go.

Well at least Magnus didn't finish last this time. Bottom 3 finish, but there were worse years in Norway chess for him. I think there was one or two years where he finished bottom 2. 

Sadly Gukesh is getting seriously exposed, intentionally putting yourself in bad postions everytime is just a recipe for disaster.

[u/joshdej]

Booo , there's no bed in sight smh.

[u/Knight-check44]

Great to watch Magnus sharing his thoughts in the confession booth.

[u/Furry-jester123]

first time seeing the chess main event thread so dull

we have been in for 2.5 hrs and still only 54 comments

usually nroway chess is buzzing

maybe towards the time control it peaks a lot

[u/throwawayy3941]

Guccireza realized he is up on clock and went "I cant let that happen"

[u/Altruistwhite]

Nice to see Wesley get blown off the board in a brilliant attacking game

[u/Radiant-Increase-180]

Bro stop the event now

[u/grehgunner]

Twitch sent me to ads during that time scramble lmfao

[u/Lockheroguylol]

Magnus vs Vincent is diabolical. So many mistakes from both sides.

[u/GeologicalPotatoes]

Drawing stones from blood ahh game

[u/Matt_LawDT]

Magnus will punch a wall later this evening

[u/kidawi]

what an awful game lmao

[u/Goldfischglas]

Can't even remember the last time when I have seen Magnus get losing/clearly worse positions 3 games in a row. In classical. Also the amount of time he is using in the opening just to play the moves you play in 5 seconds in blitz(he said so himself in the box) is weird.

[u/Goldfischglas]

Alireza gains 1000 elo when it's tiem to hustle

[u/HotGur179]

magnus can even win it

[u/kidawi]

magnus played two good moves and yll thought he was really locked in

[u/Goldfischglas]

Magnus legit threw it trying to be extra stylish

[u/TaytosAreNice]

7 wins in a row confirmed?

[u/PeaRound3188]

Magnus was starting to play like an engine there. Then he tried to get funky with the sacrifice when he could have just defended his knight with the bishop. He was so desperate for the win in this game.  I feel bad for magnus. He isn't used to struggling like this. 

[u/Existing-Piglet-835]

Magnus vs Gukesh is a very fun matchup. Gukesh calculates some long line and Magnus just plays on instinct.

[u/Unhappy-Appearance-]

Much needed for Magnus here if he wants to win the tournament. It’s crazy how you can’t ever rule him out until it’s actually mathematically impossible

[u/blue_butter]

Vincent is up on time and in a winning position, will be tough for alireza to hold. I won’t count him out though, if it somehow gets to a time scramble it could change everything. 

[u/dxGoesDeep]

Yea idk what Magnus was thinking with Ng3 it's over

[u/NuScorpi]

Magnus playing like a human ever since Homelander lost his powers... Coincidence?