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2016
Carlsen kan miste toppen på verdensrankingen: – Magnus trenger en vekker
Fabiano Caruana lusker bare 18 ratingpoeng bak på verdensrankingen. Amerikaneren er bare en superprestasjon unna å ta førsteplassen fra Magnus Carlsen.
Ingen har vunnet den prestisjefylte prisen flere ganger. Nå kan Magnus Carlsen vinne for femte gang
Nominert til Folkets idrettspris igjen.
Oslo vil ha Magnus Carlsens VM-match i 2018
Norges Sjakkforbund i møter med Oslos ordfører og byrådsleder i dag.
Happy Birthday Magnus!
That those words were the first uttered by the defeated challenger at the closing press conference says a lot about this match. I cannot recall a more sporting loser. The…
WTF?
When the 12th and final ‘slow’ game of the world championship match ended in a half hour of synchronized sweeping and a friendly handshake, I delivered my flash report with an honest reaction that echoed the length of the ‘struggle’ – «WTF?»
Reset day
We are now just one more nervous game away from the unthinkable – deciding a classical world title by playing increasingly faster games. I know that it happened not so terribly long ago, but I still find unthinkable a good word for it. Because the champion seemed such a clear favorite, and because I don’t think I will ever find it a satisfactory way to settle such an important event.
Law of averages
Weeks of frustration have finally ended for the champion, and once again he pauses after the game to speak with Norwegian media. Visibly nearly as weary as he is happy, he cannot hide a face-splitting smile. The match is now tied 5-5, and some might say we now have a two-game title contest.
Reprieve
The players had had a day to recover from their exertions in game 8, and to earth themselves again from two dramatically different perspectives.
Head first
Challenger Sergey Karjakin has seized a 4.5-3.5 lead in his title match with Magnus Carlsen, preventing a record-tying world championship sequence of eight initial draws by winning with black in a heart-stoppingly dramatic game that was far more excitement and emotion than precision. The champ now has only four games left to solve the invincibility enigma posed so far by his Russian adversary.