Magnus Carlsen wins most extravagant and most-viewed online chess occasion ever

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There's simply no halting Magnus Carlsen.

The Norwegian title holders has won the finale of the Magnus Carlsen Chess Tour, the most extravagant and most-watched chess occasion ever.

Carlsen beat Hikaru Nakamura in the Grand Final of the Norwegian's $1 million mark visit to sack the $140,000 champion's value and carry his all out Tour rewards to $349,500.

Throughout the week-long last game between the two chess titans, Carlsen needed to dig out from a deficit multiple times, before at long last crushing Nakamura in an Armageddon tiebreak - a choosing game which must have a champ, where White is given additional time however a draw implies triumph for Black.

"I don't have the foggiest idea what to state, there were simply such huge numbers of exciting bends in the road. At last, it's somewhat arbitrary that everything is chosen by one game, yet it needs to end sooner or later," the 29-year-old said after his triumph.

"[Nakamura's] simply extremely, tough and I simply found the entire match exceptionally troublesome and undesirable to play. At certain focuses, I felt that I was defeating him and afterward he began turning it around.

"I never felt I had the vitality and never felt at any second cruising, so it was only an endless battle. That is the reason it turned out to be so close."

Carlsen and Nakamura have had a wild contention crossing more than 10 years. In 2016, Nakamura compared Carlsen to Sauron from 'The Lord of the Rings' - something Carlsen appeared to rejoice in light of referencing on Twitter after his triumph on Thursday.

After in-person chess competitions were dropped not long ago as a result of the coronavirus pandemic, Carlsen sorted out the online Chess Tour to keep players and fans the same engaged.

The Tour comprised of four separate occasions, which started in April, and the great finale. The all out prize reserve for the Tour was a record-breaking $1 million.

The Norwegian grandmaster proceeded to win three of the four phases, losing just one match at a knockout stage to Nakamura, before winning the Grand Final.

Almost 70 million TV and online watchers checked out watch the five occasions. It was communicated in 10 dialects over the world and the Grand Final was now and again the most-sat in front of the TV show in Norway.

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