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World Chess Championship: 3 fighting draws between Carlsen and Nepomniachtchi

2021-11-29T16:38:03.409Z


In the first three games between the Norwegian world champion and his Russian challenger, the opponents surrendered blow for blow in high level theoretical duels.


Despite three theoretical battles of very high level, the reigning champion and favorite of the world chess championship Magnus Carlsen could not do better than three consecutive draws against his challenger the Russian grandmaster Ian Nepomniachtchi.

The Norwegian will therefore not have been able to break the Indian sign which has prevented him, for three games now (against Sergei Karjakin, then against Fabiano Caruana) from showing the indisputable superiority that he displays throughout the year on the world circuit.

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Outsmarting all odds, Magnus Carlsen showed initiative in these early games against a Nepomniachtchi, who demonstrated that he knew how to remain unflappable and solid, even in adversity, and could forget his usual impetuosity.

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Specialists will have noticed that the two champions had to do a lot of laboratory work since they used two openings among the most respectable, the Spanish side, or Ruy Lopez, and the Catalan opening.

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For the anecdote, the spectators on the Web or on the spot in the United Arab Emirates will have noted the annoyance of Magnus Carlsen, who at the express request of the referee at the end of the third part, had to submit to a control anti-doping. Science, art or sport, the International Chess Federation (Fide) has decided definitively: chess is considered a brain sport. It goes without saying that the Norwegian test came back negative.

It is now a question of knowing what will be the state of mind of the two protagonists for the eleven classic games that remain to be played.

The former Indian world champion Vishy Anand, undisputed expert in this kind of chess mano and official commentator of the match, has his own idea on the question: “

For the moment these three draws have given confidence to the Nepomniachtchi .

But objectively, for the moment, everything is more or less normal.

Now the question is: who will be the first to win?

And there we will be able to see who took, possibly, the psychological advantage.

"

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