From the world of chess: Magnus Carlsen is again world champion – Sport

• Magnus Carlsen wins the World Cup Chess in London.
• In the decisive game, he wins in all three quick chess games and is far superior to challenger Fabiano Caruana.
• Previously, the twelve regular parts of the World Cup were closed – a novelty in the history of chess.

Magnus Carlsen is the old and the new world champion of chess. The Norwegian defended his title at the World Cup in London on Wednesday against American challenger Fabiano Caruana. Carlsen won the three fast parts of Sovereign Chess. Because four games at the most are played in the decisive game, this winning series has awarded him the world title.

"I would not say it was easy today, but it was very early in my favor," said Carlsen after the last showdown: "He was definitely my biggest challenger until I was in the middle of the day. now, as shown in the last few weeks. " Caruana was disappointed: "I've never really had a chance today, I did not play at her level."

Carlsen, who was considered a faster, faster and faster chess player before the day of decision-making, has lived up to his favorite role at the playoff from the start. Already in the first game, the 27-year-old had already started to press with the white stones and pushed for a smart pawn who sacrificed the final of the tower, which he finally won. In the second match, the Norwegian then used an imprecision of his opponent to take the initiative also with the black stones. Caruana, visibly surprised by the evolution of the situation, was looking for a long way to a solution, but eventually had to give up before the 30th train. The set on four draws was therefore pre-decided.

Carlsen defended for the third time the title of world champion. In 2013, he was the challenger at the age of 23 against Indian Viswanathan Anand for the first time the best chess player in the world. In 2014, he defended the title against Anand, in 2016 against the Russian Sergei Karjakin and now against Caruana. Two years ago, Carlsen won the deciding game, which is played when both players have the same score after twelve games of regular chess.

The peculiarity of this World Cup: The twelve games of regular chess ended in a draw. Carlsen is therefore the first world champion in history to not have won a regular chess game to win the title. Caruana is therefore also the first challenger to not become world champion, even though he has not lost defeat to the total distance.