18-year-old Russian chess player defeated Carlsen at a tournament in Wijk aan Zee

To defeat Carlsen, 18-year-old Esipenko, who played with white pieces, took 38 moves.

For Carlsen, this is the first defeat in classical chess since October 2020, when he lost to the Pole Jan-Krzysztof Duda, and before that he had not lost for two years.

Earlier it was reported that a center for the development of chess sports was opened in Izhevsk.