King Carlsen retains world title in a historic final – 28/11/2018

Even with 27 years in the trailer, his boyish face sells him. This helped him cope with his older rivals when he began to show that it would be a strong name to take into account in global failures. And he used it in advertising contracts that moved the king from the squads and took him to another plane, mixed with athletes or models.

Obviously Magnus Carlsen in his childhood, he only had a face and showed that he was following his plans to the letter. And with a strategy that amazed fans and even sparked criticism from those who wanted more to be the champion, managed to keep his world reign on the boards Wednesday black and white squares.

The Norwegian arrived on the scene that he wanted at the beginning of the match against the Italian-American Fabiano Caruana: the decisive game in the fast games, after twelve tables in the rhythm of thought.

Carlsen managed a supreme level of calculation, plus the game time was short, which in this case was 25 minutes per participant, with 10 seconds more per shot. And in these waters of fast thinking, closed the duel by winning the first three gamesThis did not make the fourth one necessary.

At Holborn College in London, Caruana stretched out his right hand three times in resignation after playing at a very high level in the 12 traditional games.

He could not be born in Miami, who studied chess in Europe and then resided in New York, against the Norwegian prodigy, who is an excellent teacher of 13 years, 4 months and 27 days. Caruana, meanwhile, reached the maximum title at 14 years, 11 months and 20 days.

This final was historic in world chess. It was the first that was defined without having won in the rounds at the expected pace. A million euros has been put into play. And the system was used "Pay-per-view" (pay to see) follow the official transmission of the games by streaming, with the comments of great masters at the top.

Carlsen pays special attention to fitness, jogging, cycling and gym activities to ease tension. Plus, in 2013, he was chosen as one of the "badiest men in the world" in Cosmopolitan magazine. And later he starred in an advertisement for Porsche with tennis player Maria Sharapova and was the face of the Dutch clothing brand G-Star Raw with actress Liv Tyler.

So idol is Carlsen in Norway that his games were broadcast live on television and every year, he takes his country among the best in the world to play a very strong Open.

Magnus Carlsen is the second youngest world champion in historyafter Garry Kasparov. He has held the maximum throne since 2013, when he surpbaded in Chennai the Indian Viswanathan Anand, previously who had defended the scepter in 2014, in Sochi. He did the same in front of the Russian Sergey Karjakin in 2016 in New York, and now against Fabiano Caruana.

The king is stronger than ever.