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The third game between Carlsen and Nepomnyashchi ends in a draw

Dhe game ended on time, and the interviews that followed were done to see Manchester United – Chelsea from kick-off. Then Magnus Carlsen and Jan Nepomnjaschtschi found out that they still have an extra appointment to do in front of the television. “Hopefully the doping test won’t ruin everything,” said Carlsen of his intentions for the rest of the evening. This also included Real Madrid – Sevilla FC and NBA basketball.

“A good plan, which I will partly agree to,” agreed Nepomynaschtschi. If they weren’t in Dubai as opponents, they would probably look together.

After the excitement on Saturday, when Carlsen messed up an opening advantage (see diagram) and then Nepomnyashchi didn’t make anything out of a large increase in material, their third match was calm and balanced. As in the opening game on Friday, the challenger opened with Spanish, again avoiding the Marshall gambit, which had been analyzed in many variations to a draw, but switched to a recipe with which Garry Kasparov had been extremely successful at the 1993 World Cup.

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Carlsen, however, maneuvered more skillfully than the challenger at the time, Nigel Short. The black pawn formation looked shakier than the white one, but Nepomnjaschtschi saw nothing more than a symbolic advantage in a final that resulted in a draw. Because the rules prohibit a draw agreement before move 40, they routinely heaved each other up to move 41 before officially sharing the point.

Afterwards, an employee of the Lichess Internet platform informed them that they had played the most correct world championship game in chess history. This was not measured by the correspondence with the best move according to the computer, but according to “Centipawn Loss”, ie by adding up the evaluation losses in the few places where one of them did not choose the best move according to the computer. Carlsen took the message with a grin: “I’m proud of that, but unfortunately I only get half a point.”

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