The last skirmish of the whole 2022 FIDE Fabulous Prix series coordinated by World Chess has completed on the fourth of April. In the last match sudden death round, Wesley So outflanked Hikaru Nakamura by a score of 1½:½ and won the third leg of the Great Prix in Berlin. The competition champ and the second place looked cheerful at the end function as the two of them could praise the outcome in the competition.
In spite of the aftereffect of the last match, Hikaru Nakamura qualified for the FIDE Competitors Competition 2022 and turned into the general champ of FIDE Fabulous Prix Series 2022. Richard Compatibility, who is the second in the general standings and furthermore punched his pass to the Up-and-comers, while Wesley So took third spot in the Series.
After the match finished, Wesley So said: “I’m just 28, and I’m trusting that one year from now or in two or three years, I will be able to play in the Applicants. The last time I played, I was extremely unpracticed and completed second to endure, so I suppose assuming that you qualify, you must be prepared to battle for the lead position.”
Hikaru Nakamura: “The chances [of winning the entire series] were likely 10-15% prior to everything started. I was very lucky in the main leg as I got players who hadn’t played so a lot; they weren’t sharp.”
In the principal sudden death round game, Hikaru picked the Diocesan opening, which Wesley So didn’t anticipate seeing on the board today. Be that as it may, Wesley played without hesitation with Dark and got a genuine positional benefit by move 15. Hikaru showed his great cautious abilities, and after two or three slip-ups by the adversary, he figured out how to make an extremely perilous assault on the kingside. It was Wesley’s chance to track down the main moves to remain in the game. After a few assessment swings in this convoluted upside down game, the rivals split a point in a drawish rook finishing.
In the subsequent game, the Berlin Protection in Ruy Lopez was played. White figured out how to get a charming edge, yet the position appeared to be very adjusted until a specific point. Wesley traded the sovereigns at the expense of multiplying his pawns on the d-document yet designed some drive in the middle. On the 32nd move, Hikaru made a horrible screw up 32… c6 and after a basic nullification 33.Bxe5 ended up in a miserable position. Wesley arose a piece up and afterward gradually changed his benefit over to dominate the match and the match
