Tuesday, April 02, 2013

Chess News
At FIDE Candidates Tournament 2013, London, England

Magnus Carlsen become challenger against Anand for the World Chess Championship after winning dramatic FIDE Candidates Tournament ... The World Chess Championship will be played from 6th November to 26th November 2013 mostly at Chennai ... It will be best of 12 head to head matches with a tie breaker if needed ... Interestingly 22 yrs old Carlsen is 21 years younger to Anand.

This FIDE Candidates Tournament 2013 would consider the most spectacular tournament of recent years ... Until Round 11, Magnus Carlsen was leading by half point and was consider favorite for winning the title but last three rounds were dramatic ... In round 12, Vassily Ivanchuk defeated Carlsen playing with Black and then Vladimir Kramnik scored big win over Levon Aronian with Black ... So now Kramnik was leading after round 12 ... In 13th round Carlsen scored hard fought win after 7 hours game against Teimour Radjabov playing with Black ... Other hand Boris Gelfand hold Kramnik playing with Black ... Kramnik and Carlsen were tied for top position with 8.5 points but Carlsen had upper-hand as per the second tie-break rule: higher number of wins ... In the final round Kramnik needed victory for any chance of winning this tournament but in shocking result both top two players lost their respective matches ... In rare occasion Carlsen lost his second match playing with White in the same tournament ... Carlsen made mistake with f3 move on 31st move and lost match after 48 moves against Peter Svidler ... But this time again Kramnik blown chance of in the World Chess Championship match ... Kramnik played all-out kill game against Ivanchuk but Ivanchuk punished him for excessive opening aggression ... Kramnik resigned after 47 moves and handed title to Magnus Carlsen on the second tie-break rule: higher number of wins ... Magnus Carlsen won five matches and Vladimir Kramnik won four.

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