Coming into round 5 (of 10) of this year's Norway Chess tournament, Magnus Carlsen wasn't leading, but he had at least won every round. All his classical games were drawn, and he won both Armageddon games with White and drew both Armageddons with Black.
Following up on the discussion in the previous post on this event, in which I protest slightly against Leo Tolstoy's logorrhea in War and Peace, it seems mildly ironic that a chess tournament named for him, the Tolstoy Cup, is a rapid one.
To all members
NOTICE OF ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING
Notice is hereby given that the Annual General Meeting for 2021 will be conducted by electronic means (via ZOOM)
on Sunday, 26 September 2021, at 8 pm.
The headline is a reference someone's joke - Hans Kmoch's, I think - about the 1963/4 U.S. Championship. Bobby Fischer went 11-0, while Larry Evans was second with something like 7.5 points. Kmoch congratulated Evans on winning the tournament and Fischer on winning the exhibition...
There were no rating points to be won, but Leinier Dominguez's victory in the Chess960, er, Chess9LX event in St. Louis was nevertheless one of the greatest results of his chess career. His score of 6/9 in the round robin was good enough for clear first - by a whisker.
Thanks to the funny scoring system used in the Norway Chess tournament, one can "win" every round but not win the tournament. The tournament is a classical round-robin, with a twist. If someone wins the classical game, they get three points while the loser gets zero.
