With seven moves before he earned an extra hour of time, he made an overly defensive move and surrendered the momentum to Nepomniachtchi. Carlsen had just three minutes compared to Nepomniachtchi’s 23, and while he had a slightly better position, converting that to a winning one in three minutes would have taken a superhuman level of board vision.
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The game was hanging in the balance in the lead-up to the first time control, which produced to a thrilling series of positions. The Russian challenger offered Carlsen both of his rooks for the Norwegian’s queen, and Carlsen accepted.īlack just played Rac8, offering two rooks for the queen! Here we go! #CarlsenNepo /EhXUxNFYjk- ChesscomLive December 3, 2021 Carlsen sacrificed a pawn on the 10th move of the game in order to maneuver better control of the left side of the board, and Nepomniachtchi raised the stakes even higher with his 25th move.
Today, however, Carlsen threw an unorthodox opening-the queen’s pawn Psuedo-Catalan-at Nepomniachtchi, and the game reached an unforeseen level of intrigue very early. The Russian had shown no weakness through the first five games, and both men had clearly prepared enough for every one of their opponent’s preferred strategies. Nepomniachtchi had a sliver of an opportunity to punish Carlsen with the white pieces in the fifth game, though a moment of passivity cost him tempo, and things ended up even. According to computer analysis, Carlsen and Nepomniachtchi have played some of the most harmonious chess ever, which is great for them but also had made for a pretty boring Championship. The first five games of the 2021 Championships were notable for how even they’ve been. He beat Sergey Karjakin that year and Fabiano Caruana in 2018 in the tiebreak rounds, which feature games with shorter time limits and therefore less time to determine the mathematically correct move. Carlsen has defended his classical chess title four times since winning it in 2013, but he hasn’t actually won a game since 2016. At the highest levels of chess, classical games are ending in draws more often than ever, as players have learned to study and take advantage of chess computers’ ability to pick out the mathematically correct lines from any position. It is worth spelling out just how rare a win is at the World Championships. After 136 moves…CARLSEN WINS GAME 6! 🤯🤯🤯 The first decisive game in a classical World Championship game in 5 YEARS! #CarlsenNepo /fqO38H54ls- December 3, 2021
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