GM Magnus Carlsen is again within the lead on the Julius Baer Generation Cup after scoring three wins and a draw on the third day of the preliminaries. GM Hans Niemann remains to be in rivalry of qualifying for the knockout part and may be paired with Carlsen later within the match.

Seemingly unaffected by the tumultuous instances within the chess world, Carlsen performed one other day of high quality chess within the Generation Cup on Tuesday. Just like on the primary day, he scored 10 out of a doable 12 factors and his solely loss to this point is the sport he resigned rapidly vs. Niemann.

After skilfully outplaying GM Ivan Saric (a textbook endgame exhibiting the ability of the bishop pair), the world champion drew a 122-move recreation with GM Vasyl Ivanchuk, who held with a fortress of rook and knight vs. queen and pawn.

Carlsen’s win in spherical 11 should have felt good; GM Jan-Krzysztof Duda absolutely had overwhelmed him too many instances to his style, lately.

With three rounds to go, it is all about ending among the many prime eight, who will play a knockout beginning on Thursday. Besides Niemann, many extra of the up-and-coming gamers are doing effectively, akin to GM Arjun Erigaisi (only a level behind Carlsen), GM Praggnanandhaa R. and GM Vincent Keymer (at present sharing fourth place) whereas GM Christopher Yoo can nonetheless make it as effectively.

While Carlsen has secured his qualification, it seems that his almost definitely opponent within the quarterfinals is… Niemann.

Carlsen has clinched a spot within the #JuliusBaerGenerationCup quarterfinals, so all that is left to be decided (for him) tomorrow is who his first knockout-round opponent will likely be. Here’s the chances sorted by probability.#ChessChamps pic.twitter.com/enOVtrrfqZ

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Niemann scored a remarkably fast win vs. GM Levon Aronian, who mishandled a Dragon-like Sicilian the place White gave the impression to be combining quick castling with a type of Yugoslav Attack. “I feel it was a wierd recreation,” Aronian mentioned afterward. “I feel Hans performed very, very unusual strikes in some unspecified time in the future and I feel I misplaced my focus and blundered.”

The transfer of the day was for Duda. 10.Ne5 was fairly spectacular already, however 14.exd6 was actually nice. Too unhealthy the engine spoils it by giving Black the benefit proper earlier than!

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The 2022 Champions Chess Tour’s seventh occasion, the Julius Baer Generation Cup, takes place September 18-25, 2022 on chess24. The preliminary part is a 16-player fast (15|10) round-robin. The prime eight gamers advance to the knockout part which consists of two days of four-game fast matches, which advance to blitz (5|3) and armageddon (White has 5 minutes, Black 4 with no increment) tiebreaks provided that a knockout match is tied after the second day. The prize fund is $150,000.