National Elephant World Championship: Carlson Quick Victory to achieve five consecutive championships

Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, December 11, 2021 FIDE news, in dubai, the United Arab Emirates held the 2021 chess world championship on the 10th local time ended the 11th round of competition, the current chess king, Norway's famous Carlson in less than three and a half hours to defeat the challenger, Russian chess player Nepomniacki, the total score of 7.5: 3.5 won, the fifth consecutive time to win the tournament championship.

In the day's race, Nebo started with the king's soldiers, the battle turned to Italy to start, Nebo then made a serious mistake in the search for a fighter, Carlson decisively attacked the king, turned the battle into a car soldier endgame, and sat on the advantage of multiple soldiers, and the lackluster Nebo gave up resistance in the 49th round. Carlson was crowned king for the fifth time since 2013, 2014, 2016 and 2018.

The World Championship was originally scheduled for 2020, but was postponed in Dubai for one year due to the impact of the epidemic. Nepomniacki, who has emerged from the eight players in the Chess World Championship Candidate Tournament, became Carlson's opponent this time. According to the schedule, the two sides need to play 14 games of slow chess, the first to score 7.5 points wins, if the draw is entered into the fast chess overtime.

In the sixth set, the two sides staged a 7-hour and 45-minute battle to surpass the 124-round match between Karpov and Korchinoy in 1978 with 136 rounds, setting a record for the number of rounds in the World Champions Championship, and Carlson won the first victory. The round also became a turning point in the game, the two sides who had no intention of fighting were in the seventh round of speed, but the eighth and ninth rounds of Nebo were buried by mistakes, giving Carlson a 6:3 lead. After the tenth round of the two sides were reconciled, Carlson had already won the match point 6.5:3.5.

'I was of course very happy (successful in defending the title) and didn't expect the game to end this way.' Carlson, who won the championship three rounds earlier, said: "Overall I feel that I have shown my professional standard very well, and I have no regrets, I am very satisfied. ”

"I think the first thing chess teaches is to take responsibility, after all, you are the one who plays chess, and when you make a decision, you have to bear the corresponding consequences." Nepomniacki said after the game that his task now was to find out what caused his error-ridden collapse in the second half and to avoid it happening again in the future. (End)