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Round 11 of the FIDE World Championship was performed immediately between the reigning champion, GM Magnus Carlsen and his challenger, GM Ian Nepomniachtchi.
Lichess is offering a broadcast of the strikes being performed in real-time. Additionally, GM Nijat Abasov is offering recreation annotations and insights on the video games every day. Round eleven’s recreation annotations could be discovered beneath.
(title picture – FIDE / Niki Riga)
Nepomniachtchi had the white items once more immediately, and lots of suspected he may strive one thing extra daring, like in his earlier recreation with white the place he opened with 1. c4. With the rating on the time of the sport being 6.5 – 3.5 in Carlsen’s favour, Nepomniachtchi was operating out of time to even out the rating and keep within the match. However, he settled for 1. e4, however diverged for an Italian Game relatively than the anti-Marshall Ruy Lopez he’d gone for of their earlier encounters.
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Once once more, Carlsen was in a position to fastidiously neutralise any threats, and make sure the place was equal out of the opening. If something, Carlsen seemed to be getting a place which appeared to favour his endgame and positional strengths, regardless of the engine analysis contemplating the place fully equal for each gamers.
However, the stress bought to Nepomniachtchi, and once more he gave an uncharacteristic blunder, once more by a miscalculated pawn transfer. The miscalculation allowed a tactical mixture by Carlsen, with an alternate that led to his favour, with an assault on Nepomniachtchi’s abruptly uncovered king, and being a pawn up with a handed h-pawn. The stress then appeared to get to Carlsen and he had an opportunity to be two pawns up however appeared to overlook it; in any occasion, while he misplaced a few of his benefit he was nonetheless the favorite.
Carlsen settled his nerves by the endgame, taking part in it with ruthless effectivity and was simply in a position to hold his benefit. Nepomniachtchi, seeing the inevitable, selected to resign on transfer 49 relatively than needlessly lengthen the sport.
With the match rating changing into 7.5 to three.5 in Carlsen’s favour, Carlsen has efficiently defended his title for a 4th time. Including the event he received it from Viswanathan Anand in 2013, this made it his fifth World Championship title. Despite having one of many largest margins for victory in a World Championship match, Carlsen was however subdued in regards to the match total.
Nepomniachtchi was equally circumspect about his play, highlighting that he didn’t imagine his degree of chess defined his lack of the match. Instead, Nepomniachtchi indicated that there could also be different elements which got here to elucidate his loss.
(picture credit score – FIDE / Niki Riga)
To an out of doors observer, it seems that the stress and stress of the match bought to Nepomniachtchi after he failed to carry a theoretical attract recreation 6. After that marathon recreation which required Herculean effort, Nepomniachtchi appeared unable to rally himself after that loss. Going into recreation 6, each gamers had been on 2.5 – 2.5; but after recreation six Nepomniachtchi solely managed to get two additional attracts out of 5 additional encounters, maybe indicating his psychological resilience was missing after recreation 6.
Nepomniachtchi is in fact a wonderful chess participant on his finest days, however is extra susceptible to fluctuations in energy. As Carlsen himself touched on within the press convention, his biggest energy is remaining constant even on his strongest and weakest days; his vary of energy is grouped rather more tightly than every other participant in historical past – and the statistics assist this.
In the press convention, each gamers remained coy about their groups and seconds. It’s well-known each gamers utilised their long-time seconds, GM Vladimir Potkin (for Nepomniachtchi) and GM Peter Heine Nielsen (for Carlsen; additionally his chess engine specialist). But past this, not a lot is understood in regards to the further human seconds for Nepomniachtchi past GM Sergey Karjakin (GM Teimour Radjabov and GM Peter Leko had been additionally rumoured to have been concerned), whereas Carlsen shared his staff just lately. His staff composition was: GM Peter Heine Nielsen, GM Laurent Fressinet, GM Jan Gustafsson, GM Jorden van Foreest, and GM Daniil Dubov.
Likewise, Nepomniachtchi had earlier highlighted he labored with a Russian supercomputer and in the course of the press convention specified he used Stockfish 14 NNUE and Leela. However, Carlsen remained coy additionally about his software program and {hardware} preparation, directing the query to be requested to Heine Nielsen as an alternative.
An extra query within the press convention requested Carlsen about whether or not his bullet and blitz performed on Lichess had been a part of his preparation. Prior to the match, Carlsen performed a number of matches in quick time controls on-line, “adopting” a few grandmasters. Carlsen indicated that “it didn’t hurt at least” for his probabilities; and that was actually confirmed within the match outcome.
(GM Nijat Abasov achieved the GM title at simply 15. He was Azeri nationwide champion in 2017, additionally profitable the Baku Open the identical yr. He has performed the Tata Steel Challengers and the Grand Swiss (twice), amongst many different tournaments, reaching his all-time peak ranking of 2670 in February 2020. He just lately represented Azerbaijan on the European Team Championships, profitable a board prize with a efficiency ranking of 2760).
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