In the final of another major online tournament on fast chess Chess Clutch Champions Showdown, which was played by four American and four European elite grandmaster, met world champion Norwegian Magnus Carlsen and American Hikaru Nakamura, competing with him in the last match for the title. Carlsen again in a bitter struggle defeated his longtime rival.Magnus Carlsen and Fabiano Caruana after a year and half after their duel for the world title ever again. Now in the final Clutch of Chess Champions Showdown. In their opposition to stronger again, was the Norwegian grandmaster. Behind Caruana before the final game of the final, he still managed to pull out a victory, this time not in the “classics”, and in a rapid game (10 minutes per game with the addition of 5 seconds per move).USA was represented by Fabiano Caruana, Wesley so, Leinier Dominguez and Jeffrey Xiong, the European continent — Magnus Carlsen, Russian Alexander Grischuk, the Frenchman Maxime Vachier-Lagrave and Levon Aronian. To qualify to the finals of the tournament the two leaders of the FIDE rating special work has not made.In the quarterfinals Magnus Carlsen in 12 games with Jeffrey Xiong was defeated only 2, and Fabiano Caruana, played by Leinier Dominguez, in three. In the semifinals, the Norwegian who went to Levon Aronian, at all without defeats. Fabiano Caruana had a little more difficult: he played Wesley so and initially it was lost to American grandmaster. Finals Caruana and Carlsen was very entertaining. Both grandmasters played incredibly hard and, podavlivaya each other, alternately won. The first match consisted of six games ended in a draw, although Caruana was on the verge of losing. In the sixth game of the American grandmaster, being in a completely losing position, managed to defeat to level the score.The last batch decided the outcome of the second and final match. In it, he points behind his opponent, flawlessly played the opening for white and already to the end of the meeting did not provide the Last chance though somehow to change the game. The Norwegian was again stronger, although, as in the time of their championship match, played GMS for about the same high level.Ekaterina Remizova
