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Carlsen playing with the white pieces today opens with 1. d4, and Caruana responds with 1. … Nf6. The opening continues with a queen’s gambit declined (2. Nf3 d5 3. c4 e6 4. Nc3 Be7 5. Bf4 O-O). Carlsen clearly avoiding Petroff’s Defence, which is a Caruana strength.
Hello and welcome back for Game 2 of of the World Chess Championship. Feels like we only just said goodbye after yesterday’s seven-hour, 115-move draw, where Norway’s Magnus Carlsen nearly become the first defending champion to win Game 1 of a world title match as black in 37 years, only to blunder (40. … Bxc3) and let challenger Fabiano Caruana of the United States off the hook.
For those of you just coming aboard, Carlsen is defending the title he’s held for the past five years against the Brooklyn-bred Caruana, who is looking to become the first American to win the world title since Bobby Fischer in 1972. The best-of-12-games match is taking place at the College in Holborn over the next three weeks, with the winner earning a 60% share of the €1m ($1.14m) prize fund if the match ends in regulation (or 55% if it’s decided by tie-break games).
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Written by Bryan Armen Graham
This news first appeared on https://www.theguardian.com/sport/live/2018/nov/10/magnus-carlsen-v-fabiano-caruana-world-chess-championship-game-2-live under the title “Magnus Carlsen v Fabiano Caruana: World Chess Championship, Game 2 – live!”. Bolchha Nepal is not responsible or affiliated towards the opinion expressed in this news article.
