Friday Quiz 3.5.19

Black to play

The solution is: 36…Rg3 37.Bxf5+ [37.Rf3 Rxf3 38.Qxf3 Qe1+ 39.Bf1 Qxe5 40.Nc4 Qd4 41.Ne3 Qxb2 42.Qxc6 Qf2; 37.Qxa7+ R8g7 38.Bxf5+ exf5 39.Qf2 Rg1+ 40.Qxg1 Rxg1+ 41.Kxg1 Qd4+] 37…exf5 38.Qxa7+ R3g7 39.Qe3 Rg2 40.h3 R2g3 41.Qa7+ R8g7 0-1

GRENKE Chess Classic 2019 9th round

Carlsen won the event with 7.5 points.

Results of the last round

Keymer, Vincent – Vallejo Pons, Francisco  0-1
Carlsen, Magnus – Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime  1-0
Anand, Viswanathan – Svidler, Peter  1/2-1/2
Caruana, Fabiano – Aronian, Levon  1/2-1/2
Naiditsch, Arkadij – Meier, Georg  1-0

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