TWIC is 31. First issue 17th September 1994.World Chess Championship 2018 (2)
Comfortable draw for Caruana with black in World Championship Game 2
Mark Crowther - Saturday 10th November 2018
Carlsen and Caruana during game two. | https://tv.nrk.no/direkte/nrk1
The second game of the World Chess Championship was not nearly as interesting as the first and left the match tied at 1-1 going into Sunday's first rest day. Magnus Carlsen chose 1.d4 and a mainline Bf4 Queen's Gambit developed. Caruana's choice of the rare 10...Rd8 worked well and produced at least equality for him almost straight away. 11.Be2 (11.Nd2 will undoutably be tried in games that follow this one) 11...Ne4! was still preparation, 17.Nxf7!? is interesting (and equal) but not something to be tried when you suspect your opponent knows his stuff.
The players traded down to a Rook and Pawn endgame where Carlsen was worse but his split Kingside pawns meant that his losing chances were practically zero. The players went through the motions before repeating for a draw on move 49.
Score Carlsen 1 Caruana 1.
| WCh London | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Caruana, Fabiano | - | Carlsen, Magnus | ½-½ | 115 | B31 | Sicilian Rossolimo |
| Carlsen, Magnus | - | Caruana, Fabiano | ½-½ | 49 | D37 | QGD 5.Bf4 |
| WCh London (ENG), 09-26 xi 2018 | |||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Name | Ti | NAT | Rtng | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | Total | Perf | ||
| Caruana, Fabiano | g | USA | 2832 | ½ | ½ | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | 1 | 2835 | ||
| Carlsen, Magnus | g | NOR | 2835 | ½ | ½ | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | . | 1 | 2832 | ||
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