Carlsen wins his 8th round bet.. Nepomniachi admits his mistakes

Bold moves on the chess board.. brings the hero closer to his title in the "Expo"

• Former Real Madrid star Michel Silgado gives kick-off to the eighth round of the Dubai Chess World Cup.

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• Magnus Carlsen: "Defending the world title is very difficult, and requires a high concentration of every move you make on the board."

• Ian Nepomniacci: "I paid the price of my series of strange decisions and uncalculated moves, which allowed Carlsen to gain the advantage."

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The Norwegian world champion, Magnus Carlsen, dealt a severe blow to his Russian challenger, Ian Nepomniacci, after Carlsen succeeded, the day before yesterday, in winning the eighth round bet in the Individual World Chess Championship, currently being held at the Dubai Exhibition Center at “Expo 2020”, and advancing in the overall ranking He won the championship by two points, with a score of “5-3”.

The kickoff of the round was given by the former star of Real Madrid and the Spanish national team, Michel Salgado, in the presence of the President of the International Chess Federation, Arkady Dvorkovic.

The victory in the eighth round, which lasted three hours and 46 moves, gave Carlsen the lead in the general standings by two points, and approached the early deciding of the world title for the fifth year in a row, as he only needed two wins or a draw in four out of The remaining six rounds, to ensure that he retained the title, while the Russian continued to bleed points, which put great pressure on him, and pushed him not to make any lapses in the remaining rounds, allowing him to restore consideration and the possibility of equalizing the result, pushing the championship and deciding the title to Final round.

Carlsen adopted a style similar to the playing style of his rival Nepomniachi, in terms of reliance on quick moves, by pushing pawn stones in front of the “king” and “queen”, supported by the “horse” and “elephant” stones, in movements that resulted in the players liquidating the “horses” stones, Each to his opponent, and opened the way for the “elephant” stones lined up in front of the “queen” to launch to both sides of the board, but the Norwegian world champion soon resorted to changing his strategy, relying on the approach of “slaying the king” with the “rook” or “castle” stone, while protecting From "The Queen".

With entering the match in the middle of it, the Russian made a fatal mistake by leaving the back space of the "king" unprotected with the "rook" stones, giving an advantage to his opponent in terms of the qualitative distribution of the board's stones, especially in the left part of it, in steps that Nepomniachi tried to quickly correct, but they It made more mistakes by leaving the stones of the second row in front of the "king" without protection, which gradually allowed Carlsen to obtain the numerical superiority required to clear his opponent's stones and end the match in his favour.

Champion Carlsen expressed his happiness with the victory, adding in press statements: “I am very happy with the result and the style of play that I followed during the round. ».

He explained, "Defending the world title is very difficult, and requires a high concentration in every movement you make on the board, and the further away you are from making mistakes, the closer you will be to victory."

And the world champion continued, “A different strategy throughout the round made it very exciting, and I am satisfied with what I did today, and I look forward to making the best use of the rest day, before completing my return to the ninth round.”

While Nepomniachi said: “I paid the price for the series of strange decisions and uncalculated moves I made, starting with moving (the King) to the site (KT8), which allowed the stones of the second row in front of him to be revealed, and then sticking to the idea of ​​pushing (the Queen) to the site ( Qe7 was in a position where even the error correction could not be compromised, which created a somewhat unpleasant situation.”

"It was a very big mistake I made on Movement 21, and I couldn't correct it, which allowed Carlsen to get the required advantage."

• 46 moves in the tour, which lasted for nearly 3 hours.

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The Individual World Chess Championship, with a total prize money of two million euros, which started on November 24 at Expo 2020 Dubai, will continue until March 16, and is organized in 14 rounds.

Today, the two players will complete the ninth round, after they underwent a rest yesterday.