Top seeds Magnus Carlsen and Kateryna Lagno have won the first ever FIDE Online Steinitz Memorial, but neither had things easy. Although Magnus won with a round to spare and finished a full two points ahead of 2nd placed Daniil Dubov he was far from happy with his play, commenting, “that was terrible, from start to finish!” Kateryna was the most consistent player overall in the women’s section but started the day by losing to Lei Tingjie and ended it playing Armageddon against the same player for the title. 152 moves later she’d done it.
And here’s Pascal Charbonneau’s recap of the final day:
Magnus Carlsen celebrates Norwegian National Day with a win
On paper it didn’t look as though Magnus could have much to be disappointed with about the final day of the Steinitz Memorial. He scored an unbeaten +3…
