India, May 7 -- Magnus Carlsen rarely plays classical tournaments these days. When he does, the rest of the field is left to contest for second place. The 35-year-old five-time world champion and world no 1, who long walked away from the world title and has seen the rise of a wave of young, super strong players, last played the TePe Sigeman tournament in Malmo, Sweden as a 13-year-old in 2004. He returned to it two decades later and walked away with a tournament win on Thursday.

His face-off against fourteen-year-old Turkish phenom Yagiz Kaan Erdogmus was billed as a clash of generations.

Erdogmus recently crushed 51-year-old Bulgarian GM Veselin Topalov 5-1 and became the youngest player to breach the 2700-Elo mark and is ranked inside...