Twelve games. Forty-eight hours. More than 630 moves. An apparent intelligence leak. A definite black eye. There’s been nothing to separate Norway’s Magnus Carlsen and Fabiano Caruana of the United States in their world championship staredown over the last three weeks in London. Every one of their 12 classical games ended in a draw, making it the first title match in which no decisive results were managed in the competition’s official 132-year history.
But the historic deadlock will be resolved on Wednesday in a sound-proof studio at the College in London when the world’s top two players compete in a series of quickfire tie-breakers to determine an outright winner in the €1m (£880,000) match.
Written by Bryan Armen Graham
This news first appeared on https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2018/nov/27/carlsen-caruana-world-chess-championship-armageddon under the title “Countdown to Armageddon: Carlsen and Caruana set for final showdown”. Bolchha Nepal is not responsible or affiliated towards the opinion expressed in this news article.
