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Carlsen, right, facing his rival Fabiano Caruana in this Wednesday's quick matches. Photo: EFE.
Norway's Magnus Carlsen has retained his world chess crown in London after being beaten by fast track (3-0) in the breakup of American challenger Fabiano Caruana, who failed to win once in twelve matches of the World at the classic rhythm.
Caruana, who dreamed of bringing back the world title to the United States after 43 years, with the great Bobby Fischer in memory, was fully boiled in the decisive game, which clearly shows the superiority of the Norwegian who presaged the statistics in the fast games.
Magnus won all three games. It was not necessary to achieve the fourth goal in the rules and the final score is a 9-6 deceiver for the champion, slightly lower than the American in the "normal" phase.
For the second time in a row, Carlsen has retained the title thanks to its speed of analysis at the dam. Two years ago, he also defeated Russian Sergey Karjakin in this way. It was the tenth time that he had played in eleven years and, as in all previous ones, he sold off his opponent with great ease.
After finishing the twelve classic chess games in draw, unprecedented event in World Cup history, the title had to be elucidated at a steady pace, with 25-minute games per player and 10 seconds of addition by movement.
Everything indicated an easy victory for the champion. The Norwegian is at the top of the classic chess classification with 2,835 ELO points, only three more than Caruana, but he is also the best of fast (2,800) and lightning or blitz (2,939), modalities in which the plaintiff is much weaker: tenth with 2789 and eighteenth with 2767, respectively.
There was, however, a glimmer of hope for Fabiano, who had made remarkable progress in quick failures. Over the last three years, his account with Carlsen was tied (2-2) and yielded to the Norwegian 2.5 to 5.5 in blitz.
Carlsen opened fire with white in the first fast and managed to get the American from the start with the English 1.c4.
The champion temporarily sacrificed a pawn to screw up the black queen's flank and get the pair of bishops. Then, it accentuated the weaknesses of Caruana but it was delayed 9 minutes before playing 24.Axe6 +, which was not the most acute, but agreed to end the game with an additional pawn.
And with a minute to the clock, Caruana made the fatal mistake with 37 … Rxe4, omitting a previous check of the turn in a2. Carlsen took advantage of the gift and settled the fight in 55 moves. What he did not achieve in more than 50 hours of classic games, he got the first accelerated spear.
All the pressure in the second match for the aspirant, who opened, as always, with 1.e4 in an open Sicilian. Caruana, who had kissed the canvas, was forced to be aggressive when he got up and was not calm enough to draw the straight line. On the contrary, he attacked his bare chest and made another big mistake with 26.c7 which cost him the match and left him on the edge of the final K.O.
It was not necessary to exhaust the four points. Caruana, again with blacks, answered in third place with a Sicilian against 1.e4 that the champion used for the first time this World Cup.
The candidate had to complicate the position because it was worth the victory. Carlsen, on the other hand, has always looked for strength against a desperate opponent who made another serious mistake and closed the World Cup with three losses and a result that may be unfair.
Carlsen's overwhelming victory in the rapids, in comparison with the slight superiority of Caruana who had recorded the classic games, intensified the controversy over the best way to solve the problems of the world cup.
(With information from EFE)
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