Magnus Carlsen hunts for the last trophy

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To Baku started the World Cup on chess which this time collected unusually strong structure of participants. They will be overcome at once for three permits in Candidate tournament in which the applicant for a title of the world champion will be defined. And among competitors of these permits there was even a great Norwegian Magnus Carlsen though a year ago he refused the rank now belonging to the Chinese Dean Lizhen Dean Lizhen. Magnus Carlsen, ten years reigning in chess and a year ago voluntary left a rank of the world champion, the World Cup which is taking place on a knockout system, never won the Photo: ALI HAIDER/EPA-EFE/Vostock Photo...