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Carlsen played 1. e4 and it was Anand's turn to play the Berlin Defense. The game followed well-trodden lines with Carlsen playing his first nineteen moves in six minutes and twenty-two moves in ten minutes. No weaknesses appeared on the board and after Anand played 33...h5 a wry smile appeared on his lips and the players shook hands. Anand will have the white pieces in Game 9 scheduled for Thursday, November 21st. |
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The world champion was unable to generate anything substantial in his second consecutive game with the white pieces. Again playing 1.e4 and running into Carlsen's Berlin Defense, Anand failed to make meaningful inroads and chose to repeat the position for a draw after thirty-two moves. The match score is now Carlsen 4.5 - Anand 2.5 with five games to play. |
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Garry Kasparov has referred to Magnus Carlsen as the Harry Potter of Chess. The Norwegian certainly showed his wizard-like command of the pieces today when he transformed the game from an equal position into one with a winning advantage and finally forced Anand's resignation on move sixty-seven. Carslen now takes a commanding 4-2 lead in the match with six games to play. |
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From a position that gave Carlsen the ever-so-slightest positional advantage in the middlegame, he managed to squeeze blood from a stone as he is often credited with doing. Playing a pawn up in the endgame and reaching a position having passed pawns on a7 and h4, he forced Anand's resignation on black's fifty-eighth move. Game 5 was an incredibly complicated contest worthy of the two greatest players in the world. |
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Anand essayed a Ruy Lopez in Game 4 and the challenger played the rock solid Berlin Defense brought into modern chess popularity by Vladimir Kramnik during his world championship match with Garry Kasparov in 2000. Chess engines and commentators were very satisfied with black's position during the late middle game after Carlsen won a pawn with the Fischer-like 18...Bxa2. A very complicated game ensued, then, after black's 37...Rf8, Anand, visually relieved, went on to quell further threats and steer the game into the quiet harbors of a 64-move draw. |
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Playing the white pieces, Carlsen again essayed 1. Nf3 as he did in Game 1. Carlsen steered the game into a non-theoretical position, just the type that he excels at. However, he drifted in the transition to the middle game and was somewhat worse with his queen entombed on the h1 square for nine moves. Down a pawn, he extricated himself masterfully from a difficult game. Anand offered a draw after 40...Qf6 which Carlsen declined choosing instead to play on for eleven more moves until a king and bishop vs king and bishop endgame resulted. |
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While we're waiting for Game 3 in the World Chess Championship Match, you may like to browse these WCC-related articles from news outlets across the globe courtesy of www.ChessCafe.com. By the time you finish perusing this content, we should be just about ready for Tuesday's game. |
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For the past seventeen years, Deer Isle-Stonington chess coach Dick Powell has hosted the Deer Isle-Stonington Chess-a-thon as a fundraiser to finance his teams' trips to the elementary nationals. In recent years, the Chess-a-thon has been named for Lacy Greenlaw, a Deer Isle-Stonington chess player who tragically passed away at a young age. |
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Stephen J. Kaluzynski, 72, a resident of Route 202 in North Monmouth, died Thursday, Nov. 7, at the Togus VA Medical Center. Steve was a longtime Maine tournament chess player and a welcomed and colorful member of the Augusta Chess Club. He will be sorely missed. Our deepest condolences to his friends and family. |
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A rapid-fire Caro Kann opening followed well-explored lines with both players moving quickly. A slight surprise from Anand on move 18 signaled his intention to steer the game into simpatico lines rather than take a sharper, more contentious path. After a queen exchange, the players made a few more moves and on white's 25th the players shook hands as a triple repeat of position was about to occur for the second time in two games. |
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