The 32-year-old didn't require 10-minute games to stop Prag. It was all over in the main arrangement of two quick games (25 mins and 10-sec augmentations) as Carlsen won the first and drew the following. He won $110,000 and Prag $80,000.
Prag will play the Applicants competition in April, whose victor will challenge best on the planet Ding Liren.
Prag's fantasy run closes as Ruler Carlsen stamps his position
Prag was supposed to give Carlsen a nearer battle however he ended up being more capable and learned. This isn't whenever Carlsen first had placed a blade in the core of Indian allies. He came to Chennai for the Big showdown as Challenger a long time back and ousted V Anand from his roost. He held the crown by beating Anand again in Sochi one year from now.
In both those matches, he was the unmistakable #1 for his more noteworthy capacity to nibble hard and age was his ally as well. The jobs were to some degree turned around in Baku. The Norwegian was the more established of the two yet stayed more grounded.
Yet again notwithstanding, Carlsen underlined that the more youthful age actually makes them get up to speed to do before they can profess to have matched his final plan ability and champion's disposition.
The Indian, who was high on certainty subsequent to beating No. 3 Hikaru Nakamura, Erigaisi Arjun and negative. 2 Fabiano Caruana, attempted to win the drive in the principal quick game with white pieces. Be that as it may, Carlsen showed his unmatched order in the final stage to win in 47 actions of Current Priest's opening.
Prag was better out of the opening and was squeezing hard on the kingside. With his sovereign moved to g-record and assault on the 'f7' pawn, Prag was in a position where he might have made major decisions. In any case, Carlsen originally found the ruler move (16...Kg7), facilitated the strain and followed that with trade of sovereign and rook.
What followed (two knights, rook and four pawns versus knight, priest, rook and four pawns) was an especially planned assault of two knights moving to choke the lord. His rook nearly flowed on the board, arrival on 'a3' square from 'a8' through the h8-h3 course. The last venture included a mating danger as well.
Carlsen settled on Sicilian Alapin in the subsequent game, likewise viewed as Hostile to Sicilian against Dark. Prag was confronting a must-dominate match with Dark. Yet, Carlsen's level was two or three bit higher. He spent only four minutes to Prag's 14. The draw was concurred after 22 actions when just four pawns, rook, knight and light-hued clerics stayed on the board.
The hero partook in a superior situation in this game from the word go. He would struggle in saving this position had he confronted a must-win circumstance. The kid from Chennai can hold his head high for attempting to win the drive in the principal game.
However, he might need to look higher to match Carlsen's vision. Succeeding in traditional chess isn't Carlsen's first concern now. Still he crushed D Gukesh in the quarterfinals in his own game. Then he held Prag to two simple draws while recuperating from food contamination.
Carlsen made it seem to be no problem. In any case, even he knows that the test from the Indian youthful detachment will be genuine. All the more so on the grounds that the chess circuit is currently additionally about on the web and rush games with great award cash.