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| The one and only Magnus Carlsen |
"I think it has been a very interesting tournament. There have been twists and turns that noone could foresee. As for myself, I thing I played, well I stared slowly. My first three games were not impressive to say the least.
I think after that my play was good. I mean, the game with Grischuk, although I didn't win, it was an energizer to play such an interesting game. I thought after that I was in the driving seat in most of my games.
Obviously if it turns out that Aronian wins [looks to one of the screens], which in fact he did, I'm actually the winner of the tournament. That is nice but, I mean, like last year there were a lot of fortunate circumstances for me in the last round to be able to win it but that's the way it goes sometimes. Today I had to win myself and I did. That's all I can do."
Carlsen was asked about the best and worst moment of his tournament.
"Yesterday I was very happy that Ronaldo scored two goals and Portugal went through! The worst for me was the start of the tournament. I was suffering."Later, Magnus Carlsen tweeted:
"Won my last game vs. McShane, and as Caruana lost to Aronian I came in sole first place. Nice how everything falls into place at the end :)"For those interested in statistics, Magnus Carlsen has won 11 tournaments in two years and nine months: Nanjing 2009, London 2009, Wijk 2010, Bazna 2010, Nanjing 2010, London 2010, Bazna 2011, Biel 2011, Grand Slam final 2011, Tal Memorial 2011, Tal Memorial 2012
Here is the Round 9 game that gave Magnus Carlsen his second victory of the Mikhail Tal Chess Memorial title second year in a row!
McShane, Luke J (2706) - Carlsen, Magnus (2835)
Result: 0-1
Site: Moscow RUS
Date: 2012.06.18
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