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LONDON – Norway's Magnus Carlsen won the world chess championship for the fourth time after winning 3 tiebreakers against his US rival and world No. 2 Fabiano Caruana on Wednesday.
The reigning 27-year-old champion, who won the winner prize of 550,000 euros ($ 626,065), and his goggle opponent shot 12 of the 12 regular games until November.
This impasse forced the pair to find themselves in the tiebreaker with the best of the four.
The failure of Caruana, 26, in the face of Carlsen means that the United States has not won the title of failures since the enigmatic and volatile Bobby Fischer beat the Russian Boris Spassky at the height of the cold war in 1972.
Caruana will still raise 450,000 euros for his efforts at The College, a Victorian building in Holborn, London.
Carlsen is the best player in the world for 8 years and now defends his title three times since his first win in 2013.
This year was the first time that he won the championship without losing a single match.
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