Magnus Carlsen returned to the highest levels of chess and his winning ways after he enjoyed a break from the sport to play poker.
In his absence, Ian Nepomniachtchi and Ding Liren contested Carlsen’s abdicated chess world title, with Liren eventually being crowned the new world champion last month. Carlsen won the Superbet Rapid & Blitz tournament on Thursday evening in Poland, his first tournament back since he relinquished the world championship title he had held for a decade.
Home favorite Duda, who had led for much of the tournament, found himself a point down on Carlsen going into the final round and he had to defeat the Norwegian with Black to level the scores and force a playoff. But Carlsen held on for a draw after 124 moves of play and sealed the title with its $40,000 prize money. “Already on the third day I was feeling in normal shape, and I thought that’s good, I can actually play chess,” Carlsen said afterwards.
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