Magnus Carlsen kept up his current winning run last weekend by taking the $30,000 first prize in the Julius Baer Generation Cup, his third victory on the $2m Champions Tour, which ends at Toronto in December. The result follows swiftly on from the 32-year-old’s over-the-board success in last month’s knockout World Cup, the only major individual competition he had never won.
Carlsen’s final match was a clash of generations as the Norwegian took on Alireza Firouzja, 20, who as a child learned the moves only a year before Carlsen first became world champion.
