Ukraine Defeats Norway in Friendly, Fundraising Match (Updated)
Ukraine won this Scheveningen-format match over Norway by a huge margin, 11-5, but the main purpose of the match was to show solidarity for Ukraine and to raise funds for various charitable organizations (more here). The Ukrainian side Vasyl Ivanchuk, Kirill Shevchenko, Yuriy Kuzubov, and Alexander Moiseenko; the Norwegian team consisted of Magnus Carlsen, Aryan Tari, Johan-Sebastian Christiansen, and Lars Oskar Hauge.
The games were played with a rapid time limit of 10'+10" - it had to be a fast time control, at least in part because Carlsen played four games in another rapid event today (with a 15'+10" control). He struggled on the day - in both events, as it turned out - defeating Ivanchuk in the prestige matchup and then Moiseenko in the next round before losing to Kuzubov and Shevchenko.
Video coverage of the event is here, and all the games (with comments to Carlsen-Shevchenko) are here.
**The update was the revised game file, with Carlsen-Shevchenko annotated.**
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