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Game days: 11, 12, 14, 15, 17, 18, 20, 21, 23, 24, 26, 28 November. Weekends: November 13, 16, 19, 22, 25, 27, 29.
Tiebreaker: November 30.
Start of the game at 22.00 Moscow time.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7F4d7oOmQRbeeXUZHheX6Q/live— live broadcast

Match preview from FIDE master Maxim Omariev

For a long time there has not been such a stir for chess as during the world championship match “Carlsen - Karjakin”, which takes place in New York from November 11 to 30, 2016.

And there are several reasons for this:

1. The analogy “West versus East” arises again, as in the 1972 match “Spassky - Fischer”. At that time, interest in the match was based on the Cold War, and now on the latest political events, after which Russia is again being perceived as the USSR.
2. The youngest match in history. Sergey Karyakin is 25, Magnus is 26, for a total of 51 years. (more about this in the review for game 3)
3. The match takes place in New York. Various stars are invited there and in general the match is well covered in the media
4. Missed the matcha. The last match was in 2014 in Sochi, then Magnus Carlsen beat Vishy Anand.

And it’s great that chess is gaining popularity!

Side chances

I talk about the sides’ chances in the review of game 1, but I’ll say a few words here too - Carlsen is the undisputed favorite. But you shouldn’t boldly rely on these forecasts, because... In the history of matches for the world title, it has often happened that the underdog challenger beat the champion. Here are some examples:

Match Capablanca - Alekhine, 1927. At that time, Capablanca was considered simply an invincible god, and Alekhine was considered an ordinary grandmaster. And the personal score was devastating in Capa’s favor, but he lost almost without a fight.

Rematch of Botvinnik Tal, 1961. 50-year-old Botvinnik played a rematch with 25-year-old Tal, and of course was an outsider, because. I lost in the last match, and since then I’ve only aged.

Match Kasparov - Kramnik, 2000. By this time, Kasparov had retained the title of world champion for 15 years, and won 10 tournaments in a row, scored a record rating - he was simply the hegemon of that era. But he could not win a single game against Kramnik, despite the fact that he lost 2 games.

As we see, history suggests that Sergei should not be written off.

What kind of champion do we need?

At first, I thought like everyone else, “The champion should be the strongest chess player in the world, this is better for chess,” and it became more profitable for chess for Carlsen to win. But now I have a different opinion. If Carlsen sits on the chess throne, this could kill some intrigue and excitement, because... At the top all the time there is only him - Magnus.

If Sergey Karjakin wins, it will turn the entire chess world upside down! There will be a huge excitement, a lot of sensational news releases, and most importantly, all the elite chess players from different countries will feel that they can win the crown! Still, there is less to fear from Sergei, and a match with him will be especially eagerly awaited.

And there is one more plus - Sergey, as a world champion, will simply be obliged to show a champion's game! He will have to practice even more and improve his level of play.

Conclusions

To be fair, Magnus Carlsen should win

But for chess it is better that Sergei Karjakin wins.

A little about the chess players:

Table of results of the match Carlsen - Karjakin

Video review of the match Carlsen - Karjakin, New York 2016

Game 1 - Carlsen - Karjakin ½: ½

2nd party - Karjakin - Carlsen ½: ½

Game 3 - Carlsen - Karjakin ½: ½

Game 4 - Karjakin - Carlsen ½: ½

Game 5 - Carlsen - Karjakin ½: ½

Game 6 - Karjakin - Carlsen ½: ½

Game 7 - Karjakin - Carlsen ½: ½

8th game -0 : 1

9th game - Karjakin-Carlsen ½: ½

10th game - 1 : 0

11th game - Karjakin-Carlsen ½: ½

12th game - Carlsen - Karjakin ½: ½

In regulation time the match ended with a draw.

But a tiebreaker awaited everyone!

The chess marathon, which began on November 11 and ended on the night of December 1, did not give the world a new world champion. The Norwegian retained his title, literally crushing Russian Sergei Karjakin in a tiebreaker, despite the challenger's fantastic defensive performance. The result of the match is fair, and it is extremely difficult to argue with this.

>>> World Championship. Karjakin missed the crown. How it was

Karjakin as Houdini

The fact that the world champion would be determined in a tiebreaker became clear after the 12th game, which turned into a farce.

Formally, the grandmasters did not break the rules; they played until the 30th move and received almost two full days off. Until the moment the first game with a shortened time control started, the chess world was seething, making predictions and unanimously expressing its indignation because in the last “classics” the chess players laughed at everyone, including the goddess Caissa.

But as soon as the tie-break began, the whole world, and not just the chess world, froze in anticipation.

Karjakin performed real miracles several times in this match in the spirit of the great magician Houdini

Karjakin performed real miracles several times in this match in the spirit of the great magician Houdini. Waiting not for a miracle, but for the outcome of the story that began back in March, when Sergey Karjakin won the Candidates Tournament and received the right to a match with Magnus Carlsen. It was Karjakin who made the match in New York cause a real stir.

It was Karjakin who prepared for a real battle with the strongest chess player of the generation and made this battle equal. Several times he performed real miracles. Including in the tiebreaker. The first game of rapid chess - a dull "Spanish flu" - quickly ended in a draw, but the second became a real highlight of the match.

Carlsen preferred the Italian and ended up winning the endgame, leaving him with two bishops against a rook. But Karjakin, as in the main part of the match, found the moves that allowed him to fight. And Magnus wavered, unable to realize his 100% position. Everyone who was at the Fulton Market at that moment applauded in unison, as Karjakin forced his opponent into a stalemate. It was very beautiful.

World Championship. Karjakin missed the crown. How it was

Magnus Carlsen retained his world title against Sergey Karjakin. “Championship” broadcast the match live from New York.

Carlsen as Carlsen

But this game seemed to have squeezed all the juice out of the Russian grandmaster. Nothing other than inhuman fatigue and tension can explain what happened in the third game. Karjakin did not deviate from his tactics: again the “Spanish flu”, again, it seemed, a boring draw.

However, everything did not go as the Russian grandmaster planned.

Nothing other than inhuman fatigue and tension can explain what happened to the Russian in the third game

He thought too long, gave the Norwegian a colossal time advantage, and under time pressure he himself made mistakes.

Yes, Carlsen made a beautiful pawn move with black, which sharply aggravated the situation and forced the opponent to fight on two flanks, but the position could be held. But the miracles ended. At a critical moment, Karjakin did not see the only move that gave a chance for a draw, and made a gross blunder. If it had been a classical game, he would probably have found a way out, but there was no time left. And after an erroneous move with the rook, it was no longer needed. Carlsen won with black, and to win the match he only had to make a draw in the last game of rapid chess.

And Karjakin needed to win to even the score. That is, to do something that he did not do and did not want to do throughout the match. Let's be honest: Sergei is a great defender, but in New York this skill alone was not enough. When he got tired and started to miss blows, Magnus simply finished him off. The last rapid was the quintessence of the whole match: Karjakin was frantically looking for options to escalate, and Carlsen was waiting for the offer of a draw, but he didn’t get it and won beautifully.

The world championship match between Magnus Carlsen (Norway) and Sergey Karjakin (Russia) continues in New York. In the fourth game the challenger had the white pieces.

The Russian grandmaster again started the game by moving the king's pawn, and the world champion again chose the Spanish game with 3...a6. Karjakin was the first to avoid the continuation encountered in the 2nd game, and soon another tabia of the anti-Marshall system appeared on the board - however, also very popular. At the exit from the opening, White decided, without defining the pawn structure in the center, to organize a piece attack on the king's side, for which purpose they started regrouping the knights and moved the queen to this area of ​​the board. However, the maneuvers turned out to be too slow - in response, Carlsen carried out an explosion in the center d6-d5 and created pressure on the e4 pawn. Black's 17th and 18th moves turned out to be very strong, thanks to which the world champion not only equalized the position, but also seized the initiative.

According to many experts, on the 19th move Karjakin made a serious positional mistake by exchanging his light-squared bishop for the enemy's knight. After this, Black gained the advantage of two bishops, and the white pawn b2 turned into a weakness. The game soon moved into a difficult ending; Carlsen set his central pawns in motion, and Karjakin's position, as the day before, became critical.

Finding himself on the verge of defeat, Sergei once again demonstrated resourcefulness and tenacity, once again proving that he is one of the best defenders in modern chess. True, all his efforts would hardly have been crowned with success if Magnus had not made a number of inaccuracies. In particular, he most likely should not have allowed the exchange of his d6 pawn for the h4 pawn, since after this White activated his pieces and finally brought into play the knight, which had been languishing on the edge of the board for a long time. The move 45...f4 also looks dubious, since after this Karjakin cleverly built a barrier of pawns and pieces in the center of the board, which turned out to be impossible to overcome.

As usual, the world champion continued to fight until Black had at least a minimal chance of winning. Only on move 94, when all resources were exhausted, did the opponents agree to a draw. The game lasted almost six and a half hours.

After four games the score remains equal - 2:2. Wednesday, November 16th is a day off for the match. The next, fifth game will take place on Thursday, November 17, Magnus Carlsen will have the white pieces.

During the match, a chess studio operates in the Central House of Chess Players (Moscow, Gogolevsky Blvd., 14) - grandmaster Sergei Shipov and invited experts tell everyone about what is happening on the board. The games start at 22.00 Moscow time.

Vladimir Zaivy

American grandmaster Fabiano Caruana won the Candidates Tournament and will now face Magnus Carlsen for the world title in November. The previous candidate for the chess crown, Sergei Karyakin, took third place, but at the same time remained the only one who was able to defeat the triumphant. Until the last round, the Russian retained his chances for the final victory, but lost it due to a draw with the Chinese Ding Liren.

• American chess player Fabiano Caruana
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The intrigue at the Candidates' Tournament held in Berlin continued until the last, 14th round. Half of the participants could hope to meet Magnus Carlsen in the match for the chess crown, which will take place in London this November.

Fabiano Caruano held the lead with eight points. The 25-year-old American, a former Italian representative, made only one major misfire throughout the entire tournament when he lost with black to previous challenger Sergey Karjakin. In the rest of the matches, he was flawless, playing almost as the computer programs would advise, so that in the worst case scenario he would at least guarantee himself a draw.

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Caruano was half a point ahead of Karjakin and Azerbaijani Shahriyar Mamedyarov. The Russian grandmaster started the tournament rather weakly, suffering two defeats in four opening games and going through the first six without any victories at all. Only after this did he “wake up” and began to close the gap with the leaders, winning victory after victory. Winning “to order” against Caruano in the 12th round with White and intensifying the fight for first place.

Mamedyarov, on the contrary, was stable throughout the tournament, and suffered his only defeat in a situation where he had no right to do so in principle. Moreover, it was inflicted on Shakhriyar by his direct competitor Ding Liren, the king of draws of this tournament. The 25-year-old Chinese scored half a point in each game, but managed to take a risk in time in the head-to-head confrontation of the 12th round with black and retained a tiny chance of winning the final victory.

To take first place, Karjakin needed only one victory over Liren. It was necessary for his teammates to help - Alexander Grischuk at least played a draw with Caruano, and Vladimir Kramnik, who started the tournament successfully, found a second wind in the match with Mamedyarov. The entire chess world remained in complete ignorance of how the final, 14th round would end.

The intrigue was so interesting that in the meaningless match between Levon Aronian and Wesley So, the opponents quickly shook hands - after the 17th move they were much more interested in what would happen on the neighboring boards. Karjakin and Dean were in no hurry to escalate the situation, which is why a pawn jungle arose in the center, allowing one to hope for a long showdown and a favorable outcome. The fact that by that time the opponents had exchanged three of the four minor pieces only confirmed this guess.

The match between Kramnik and Mamedyarov was a little hotter, even if the computer assessed the opponents' chances as approximately equal. For the first time he went beyond the permissible norm in favor of one of the grandmasters, when the Azerbaijani decided to cover his king with a rook that was missing in the corner. But the Russian, instead of scaring off the queen or continuing the attack with another bishop, spent time and a move advancing the flank pawn. Shahriyar responded with a long-playing combination that began with a bishop sacrifice and ended with a knight fork. As a result, he was left with a bishop, a knight and three extra pawns against a rook and bishop. It was difficult to extract anything more than a draw from this, and the 14th world champion would not have allowed it.

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The game between Grischuk and Caruana was the most sluggish - not only did the Russian traditionally think for a long time, but the American was in no hurry and waited, trying not to repeat the mistakes of the previous candidate tournament, when in the last round he lost a date with Carlsen to Karjakin. The calm behavior of the leader of the tournament table bore fruit - even though Alexander was in no way inferior to his counterpart and had a worthy response to all his moves, he played too passively for the white pieces. Fabiano managed to tie the pieces in such a way that, with a certain skill in improvisation, he could make his opponent nervous.

While there was excitement on the other boards, the match between Karjakin and Liren headed towards a draw. Left with a knight against a bishop, the Russian simply had nothing to attack with, and the Chinese chess player’s advantage of one pawn was not enough to open someone else’s defense without consequences for himself. In order not to tempt fate, . Karjakin could only hope that his compatriots would win and he could achieve what he wanted.

The second meeting again took place under the banner of Karjakin’s lack of time. And in the middlegame, the grandmaster made a not entirely correct exchange, giving up two pieces for a rook and a pawn. Considering the worse position and the catastrophic time loss (one minute left in the game against the opponent's 11), the situation seemed hopeless. But the Russian played magically strong, seeking more and more new resources for defense. And he found a study salvation - with an extra piece, Carlsen could not avoid a stalemate.

In the third match, the Norwegian played aggressively with black, and Karjakin again spent a lot of time in the opening. Carlsen, by sacrificing a pawn, opened up the center, activating the queen and putting White in a cramped position. The Russian again found himself in time trouble (one minute versus his opponent’s seven) and made a gross mistake in a difficult position, losing in one move.

In the final game, the Russian was only satisfied with a victory, but Carlsen, who played white, skillfully stopped all attempts by Karjakin to seize the initiative and increased the pressure. In the middlegame, the challenger sacrificed an exchange in search of counterplay, but the Norwegian confidently brought the game to a beautiful victory, which retained his title of world champion.

“It was very, very difficult. In terms of World Championship matches, this victory was definitely the most difficult. It is more comparable to the success at the Candidates Tournament in 2013, when I barely won,” Carlsen told reporters. “I thank my opponent Sergei for a wonderful match As for the tiebreak, I was confident that it would happen after the draw in the 11th game. I felt very good today going into the match, but it was not easy. The second game today was a little disappointing. But I was very, very happy. reach the end."

“I wasn’t ready for rapid chess”

“A very difficult match,” Karjakin told reporters. “As for classical chess, I am satisfied, although there were mistakes. But I was completely unprepared to play fast chess, I played poorly. Magnus took advantage of my mistakes and deserved the victory. My congratulations to him and Happy birthday".