[Sport] Carlsen wins playing on his knees and draws the final

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Playing on his knees due to a painful back injury produced after swimming this morning, Magnus Carlsen won the sixth heat against Hikaru Nakamura (3-1) and tied the score at 3 for the final of the circuit that his name. This Thursday the seventh and final manga will be played and it can be followed, starting at 4:00 p.m., on the MARCA channel on YouTube.

Carlsen did not get to the point of being lying on a stretcher like the late and remembered English grandmaster Anthony Miles did in the 1985 Tilgurg (Holland) Tournament in images that went around the world. An injury that far from taking him away from the top positions allowed him to share the first place together with Viktor Korchnoi (Russia), three times runner-up in the world, and Candidates finalist Robert Hübner (Germany).

Today the number one, in an extreme situation, played at a high level and far from trying to play calmly, already in the opening game he launched himself on Nakamura with two pawn and one knight sacrifices that ended victoriously. The American defended himself at a great level, but in the end he did not find the correct defensive plan and ended up bowing the king.

In the second, the game was quite balanced; however, Nakamura had a winning shot in a difficult draw finish that ended in a draw. A hard blow that gave Carlsen wings.

The third ended with a quick draw after the champion proposed a totally even and theoretical scheme, disdaining any option to aspire to something with the white pieces. A tie in just 17 moves and everything was left again, like yesterday, to a decisive fight in which Nakamura, with White, would press and try to set the board on fire.

Interestingly, Carlsen dropped from his knees and settled into his comfortable executive chair. He took energy for melee and emerged victorious from the exchange of blows. The king of chess in its purest form, without caring about any adversity and with victory as the best balm against back pain. A whole show that today will have its final result. The least of it is almost who wins; the most, the spectacle given by two extraordinary athletes.