29.Kh3! [White moves his king in the safest place to be protected from the opponent's checks, and then he can safely generate a huge attack against Black's king.]

[29.Rf2?! Qc6! 30.Kh3 g6 31.Qh6 △e6 31...Bf8™ 32.Qc1!±]

29...Qxd1 [29...d2 30.e6! Rf8 31.Ne3 Qxa2 32.Nxd5 Qxd5 33.Qe2 Rd8 34.Rf2+–]

30.f6! Qxg4+™ [30...gxf6 31.Nh6+ Kh8 32.Qxd1+–]

31.Qxg4 Bf8 32.fxg7! [△Qf5]

32...Bxg7 33.Qf5 f6 34.Qg6 Rexe5 35.Rc4!+–

Carlsen Leads On World Rapid Chess Championship Day 2

https://www.chess.com/news/view/2019-world-rapid-chess-championship-day-2-carlsen

King Salman World Rapid Championship, top standings after 2 days of play & 10 rounds:

1. Magnus Carlsen (🇳🇴 2886) - 8 points
2-4. Wang Hao (🇨🇳 2748), Jan-Krzysztof Duda (🇵🇱 2751), Maxime Vachier-Lagrave (🇫🇷 2873) - 7,5.

Five more rounds will determine the champion. #rapidblitz

King Salman World Rapid Championship, leaders with 6,5 points after 8 rounds in the women's section:

IM Irina Bulmaga (🇷🇴 2383)
GM Tan Zhongyi (🇨🇳 2496)
GM Lei Tingjie (🇨🇳 2498)
GM Mariya Muzychuk (🇺🇦 2518)

Four more rounds tomorrow will determine the winner! #rapidblitz

"Could he [Alireza Firouzja] end up at St Louis, receiving special coaching by Garry Kasparov and boosting US billionaire Rex Sinquefield’s dream of another American world champion to follow Fischer?"

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2019/dec/27/chess-iran-alireza-firouzja-ban-israel

Interview with Levon Aronian | World Rapid Ch 2019 | Day 2 |

Magnus Carlsen shows how to crush the Scandinavian | World Rapid 2019 Round 1

Alireza Firouzja beats former World Blitz champion Sergey Karjakin | World Rapid 2019 Rapid

🔴LIVE WRC 2019 Day 3

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1VgXgrzL0A

King Salman World Rapid Championship 2019 | Rounds 11-15 |
Commentators: GM Peter Leko, IM Almira Skripchenko, and GM Evgeny Miroshnichenko.

Official website with games, info, photos, etc: https://wrbc2019.com/

#rapidblitz

Magnus Carlsen is the 2019 World Rapid Champion!

World's number one had a superb event in Moscow, scoring 11,5/15 undefeated. This is his third rapid title after 2014 and 2015.

Congratulations, Magnus Carlsen 👏👏

Congratulations to the frontrunners of the King Salman Rapid Championship!

🥇Magnus Carlsen - 11,5 points (out of 15 games)
🥈Alireza Firouzja - 10,5
🥉Hikaru Nakamura - 10,5
4️⃣ Vladislav Artemiev - 10,5