“I can not call a better result quickly,” said Magnus Carlsen, after winning all nine games in the freestyle chess tournament in Karlsruhe and was asked for a classification: “It is a feeling that I have never had.” After three invitation tournaments with a sustained basic position with a long time, it was the first open tournament in this variant. It was also heavily occupied with 68 grandmasters. In the end, the Norwegian Carlsen was two points ahead and thus secured 60,000 euros in prize money. “It was very nice to sit on the board and to enjoy the process of playing fully. Because that is not always the case at tournaments,” said Carlsen about the chess variant he has not learned by heart, which was neither learned nor prepared for the repertoire of the opponent. won the second freestyle grass slam tournament in Paris. The winner of the first, Vincent Keymer, missed the qualification for the next Grand Slam in Las Vegas in July. In the framework of the Grenke Chess Festival in Karlsruhe, which is the largest tournament in the world with more than 3000 players, a place was played. Among the seven closest placed behind Carlsen, the Iranian Parham Maghsooodloo, who qualified for Las Vegas, had the best second rating, just ahead of Frederik Swane from Lübeck, who became the best German. Vincent Keymer fell back to the 13th place after fine rating after he was inferior in the last round. After a long balanced course, the game was only overturned when Carlsen in Keymer’s shortness of time was looking for the decision to achieve the first perfect result of his career.
