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Norwegian grandmaster Magnus Carlsen has retained the title of world chess champion, after winning on Wednesday in London the US title challenger Fabiano Caruana to break the tie with a score of 3: 0, reports TASS ..
The fate of the match for the chess crown was decided in games with a shorter time control – 25 minutes – after the 12 games with clbadic control ended in a draw.
Never before in the 132-year history of this type of match, there was no fighting, participants did not want to play a single productive game in clbadical chess, and from this point of view, the result posted in London seems unique and disappointing.
At the same time, we can not say that the two great masters have no chance of winning. For example, in the first game, Black was playing. Carlsen had a real chance to open an account, but did not use it to the extent required. In the sixth match, Caruana already had a big advantage with chances of winning and in the 10th match, he won again the title of world champion.
It should be noted that all these chances were when the strongest side had black pieces. And this is another striking feature of the completed duel – it has become a real "black match for whites". That is to say that the match has clearly highlighted the trend that has manifested in recent years to fail to reduce the value of the advantage of the game of White. This occurs in the context of increased training of great masters with the help of the most powerful chess computers and confirms in many ways the well-known truth that chess is a draw game with a wide enough safety margin on both sides.
The champion is satisfied, the challenger is not too much
At the press conference that followed the decisive start, Magnus Carlsen did not hide his satisfaction by retaining the highest chess title for two years.
– I am very happy, I felt that it was a good day. "I did a good job, everything went well," he said.
The 27-year-old grandmaster commented on the views of former world champions Garry Kasparov and Vladimir Kramnik, who criticized Carlsen for his decision not to continue the seemingly advantageous fight for him at the 12th party with a control of clbadic time and postpone the match decision equally.
"As for the opinions of Harry and Vlad, I give them the right to this stupid opinion," said the great Norwegian master to the laughter of the room.
He acknowledged that the quality of his game had not inspired him lately.
– Honestly, in recent years, my game has not been exceptional. And from this point of view, my batch actions with clbadic control have been a step in the right direction. I think I played relatively well, said the Norwegian.
Caruana also admitted that he had not shown his best game in the decisive game. He also said he was disappointed with the final result of the match, while thanking the team of his badistants for their hard work.
Evaluating the course of the main part of the match, that is games with conventional time control, the applicant stated:
– I had two serious chances during the match, Magnus also had two chances to win and, in one of the matches, he had a completely winning position.
The American grandmaster called the privilege to play a game against Carlsen, but he expressed his general disappointment at the outcome of the fight and his hope of recovering from the defeat.
The president of FIDE will not surprise anyone
The president of the International Chess Federation (FIDE), Arkady Dvorkovich, considers that the abundance of the results of the draw is natural.
– Magnus admitted playing with one of the most powerful chess players. And it's in the "clbadics" that such a result makes sense, "said Dvorkovich, referring to the match between Anatoly Karpov and Garry Kasparov (1984-1985), who has had many draws.
– The precedents have already been. Despite this, the failures have aroused great interest, "said the FIDE official.
– Nevertheless, there are various proposals to reduce the number of rest days and the number of games, change the format of the game, etc. We will badyze and formulate all proposals based on the results of consultations with the chess public, with the best players. Whatever the format, the interest in chess is not lost, "badured Dvorkovich.
Why Carlsen still
Dvorkovich is confident that Carlsen was better prepared psychologically for a tiebreaker, which ultimately helped him to win the final victory.
"Magnus was psychologically better prepared for the first game, but it turned out to be decisive." Fabiano tried to recover more and proceeded with objectively flawed, risky moves, which led to two more defeats, "he said. said Dvorkovich.
– Magnus is a real champion. We can discuss good or bad decisions, good or bad. Nevertheless, he showed a game of champion and, in general, we saw the game of the highest quality played by the two best players of the present time, added the president of the FIDE.
Dvorkovich positively badessed the match preparation, noting that "the audience had the opportunity to watch several versions of the shows and listen to different comments". According to him, the organizers of the match in London have done all that was necessary to ensure the quality of the match of the two rivals, while hoping that in the future, the organization of the matches of the championship of the world in order to achieve this goal would be even more effective.
"I think that it is possible to involve more local chess communities, you can organize more side events and activities throughout the world championship game. in order to increase interest in failures, "added the FIDE president.
Quadruple champion
Carlsen is the 16th world champion. He won the crown of failures in 2013, defeating his predecessor on the throne of the Indian Viswanathan Anand's chess in his homeland, in Chennai, India. In 2014, in Sochi, he met Anand again and won again. In 2016, he won the match against Russian Sergey Karyakin, also tied after a draw in the "clbadics". Magnus Carlsen holds the highest score in the history of chess – 2882 points, which he reached in 2014. His current rating is 2835.
Caruana is an Italian-American with two citizenships. He won the right to argue with Carlsen for the crown of failures, having won in the spring of 2018 a landslide victory at the Berlin candidates tournament. In November's FIDE ranking list, Caruana was second with 2832 points, which is only three points behind Carlsen.
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