Official Chess Olympiad Show, Interview with Ivan Saric. IMPRESSIONS AFTER BEATING MAGNUS CARLSEN
| Billed as the world’s 4th largest sporting event, Norway’s Prime Minister Erna Solberg (on the above photo) opening proceedings and made the first move for Norway’s world chess champion Magnus Carlsen in his match with Croatian chess player Šarić. The reigning world champion suffered a shock loss to the young Split player, who has won a number of tournaments in the build up to the World Olympiad. Source www.croatiaweek.com In the 10th round of the Chess Olympiad in Tromsoe, World Champion Magnus Carlsen lost to Croatia’s Ivan Saric, and Norway’s team A lost to Croatia 0.5-3.5. Ivan Šarić is a former World Junior Chess Champion of the World in 2008 in Vietnam, as well as a former European Chess Champion in 2007. |
Ivan Šarić is the winner of the prestigious Tata Steel Chess tournament organized in the January 2014 in the Netherlands.
Ivan Šarić won the tournament without any lost game.
he was European Champion in 2007 for chess players under the age of 18.
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Split is one of the most beautiful cities on the Mediterranean. It is the hometown of Ivan Šarić, Croatian high jumper Blanka Vlašić, of handball player Ivano Balić,
of tennis player Goran Ivanišević, and of basketball star Toni Kukoč. The 2013 radial laser sailing world champion is Tina Mihelić, living in the city of Split.
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