The World Championship Begins in 10 Minutes!
The match begins any minute now: be sure to watch on your favorite chess site!
The rules are the same as usual: 12 classical games, followed by increasingly rapid tiebreaks, as needed. Unlike the old days, the champion has no built-in advantage of draw odds: to win the match, he must outscore his opponent.
The match schedule is also as it has been: play two days, take a day off, play two days, etc. The one exception is that after game 11, there's an additional day off. If the match is tied after 12 games, there's a day off before the playoff. (All this has been standard for several matches as well.)
So who will win? Magnus Carlsen, the champion, or his challenger, Fabiano Caruana. Both out of patriotism and because his overall results have been better for quite a while now, I'm going with Caruana. What say all of you?
Reader Comments (1)
My guess is that Carlsen's relentless drive to play for the win, taken together with his previous world championship match experience, will allow him to win the match.