Magnus Carlsen beats Arjun Erigaisi in the round 4 of the Norway Chess tournament 2025 here on Thursday. Before this he had defeated the reigning world champion Indian GM D Gukesh in a tough encounter in the round 1 of this tournament. However in round 2 and 3 he had to suffer losses against American GM Hikaru Nakamura and Chinese GM Wei Yi respectively. After 4th round, Carlsen leads the table with 8 points while Caruana and Nakamura are at the 2nd and 3rd spot. Indian GMs Erigaisi and Gukesh are placed jointly at the 4th place with 4.5 points each.
Six-time Norway Chess Champion Carlsen has now beaten both Indian top-five stars Gukesh and Arjun in this year’s event, but when asked whether he had more motivation to beat the youngsters he noted things could have gone differently.
“It’s a little bit random that I happen to have beaten Gukesh and Arjun so far, seeing that I’ve really had pressure against everybody, but still, I’m kind of trying to beat them all! I think you could see certainly inexperience in his defense today, which worked out in my favour.” said Carlsen after the match.
Carlsen on his position vs. Arjun: “I feel like I’ve got what I wished for from the opening. I would generally suspect I’m a little bit better… What I’m worried about is I feel like I’m just burning time and being a bit indecisive…I cannot find my speed!”
Magnus had foreseen Arjun's blunder. pic.twitter.com/eYL3XhQLej
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D Gukesh beats Fabiano Caruana
In the round 4, Gukesh beat Fabiano Caruana in a thrilling Armageddon tie-break to keep himself alive in the tournament. After suffering consecutive losses in round 1 and 2, Gukesh makes a comeback in round 3 and 4 with consecutive victories. In the round 3, he had beaten Nakamura, a day before his birthday. And on his birthday, he beat Caruana.
After being asked about his win on birthday he says he doesn’t really like to play on his birthdays, “Most of my birthdays I end up losing the game, so glad it did not repeat in the classical. When I was playing I felt fine, but when I was losing I was like, ok, not again!”
Arjun Erigaisi has 4.5 points with 2 wins against D Gukesh and chinese GM Wei Yi and is placed jointly at 4th with Gukesh.
Koneru Humpy leads in Women’s Norway Chess tournament 2025
Humpy and Muzychuk have slowed a tiny bit with armageddon losses, but they’re still in the lead by a point and a half. Khadem has risen to fourth place with the coveted three-point win.
Vaishali was the first to win in her mini-match against Muzychuk. On the white side of the Catalan Opening, she sacrificed a pawn in the classical game, but Muzychuk’s 9…Bc8 and 10…Bd7 surprised her. She later said on the broadcast, “I’m not very happy with the classical game, I didn’t know this …Bc8 move and it was a complete surprise. I have to check what to do. I wanted to continue with Qb3 but I was not sure how to proceed after …Qb6… so I just repeated.”
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