Chess: Carlsen increases lead while Niemann is involved in new controversy

The Norwegian, 32, follows up his World Cup victory in Baku by winning the latest leg of the online ChampionsTour, while the former world champion Vladimir Kramnik is displeased at losing to Niemann

Magnus Carlsen kept up his current winning run last weekend by taking the $30,000 first prize in the Julius Baer Generation Cup, his third victory on the $2m Champions Tour which ends at Toronto in December. The result follows swiftly on the 32-year-old’s over-the-board success in last month’s knockout World Cup, the only major individual competition he had never won.

Carlsen’s final match was a clash of generations as the Norwegian took on Alireza Firouzja, 20, who as a child learned the moves only a year before Carlsen first became world champion.

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