The Norway Chess 2025 is ongoing with six of the top players including the current World Champion, 19 yo Gukesh Dommaraju of India is competing.
As of round 6, the World No. 1 Magnus Carlsen is tied at first place with Fabiano Caruana with 9.5 points.
In Round 5, all three matches were decided by Armageddon after the Classical games were all drawn. In Armageddon, White gets 10 minutes while Black gets 7 minutes time control. With extra 3 minutes, White must win to score while Black only needs to draw to get a point. It's a fast game where there are a lot of blunders and tactics to be found. I got some tactical positions from the three games.
Caruana - Carlsen
After 55. Rxc3 Black has a forced win with the simple 55....Rb1 threatening mate on h1. White will have to give up material to avoid mate.
Wei - Gukesh
White wins with 55. Rf6+ Bf5 56. g3 Kxf3 57. Rxf5 winning the Bishop.
Erigaisi - Nakamura
Nakamura with Black will have the advantage after 41. ...Rxg2 Kxg2 42. Qg4+ winning back the Rook on c8.
Uncharacteristically, Nakamura missed this tactic with a lot of time left and moved 41....Rf6 instead
After this blunder, White had a winning tactic 42. Qg8+ Kg6 43. g3 Qg4 44. Rc7 Kh5 45. Rxg7 Rg6 46. Qf7 Bc4 47. Rxg6 Qxg6 48. g4+ and Black will lose his Queen.
Link to games: https://lichess.org/broadcast/norway-chess-2025--open/round-5--armageddon/b3lUTDzE
