Top 10 chess: Anand World Champion

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Friday, November 11, 2016

The World Champion had White, but was unable to crack the defense of the challenger

Black: Sergey Karjakin

White: Magnus Carlsen

Position after 21 Ke2. White has a better structure, but Black is very solid and can defend both wings. Magnus tried to make progress but Sergey held on easily.

other coverage : chessbase
http://en.chessbase.com/post/newsblog-wcc-carlsen-karjakin-game-1-draw

That's it !
After losing game 10 and drawing game 11, Anand is officially the classical world chess champion ( following the tradition of world chess matches which yielded in order Fischer,Karpov, Kasparov and Kramnik as predecessors to Anand). Anand was already the FIDE world champion following the Mexico World Chess Tournament, but this match ends any discussion between cycles. The only unknown is whether the match Topalov-Kamsky will take place or not in 2008.

Games playable on a chessboard here:

http://games.top10chess.com/anandwch08.htm

Great coverage&analysis and more of the Anand-Kramnik 2008 match here :

http://www.chessbase.com/
http://www.theweekinchess.com/
http://www.chessdom.com/
http://www.chessvibes.com/
http://chessmind.powerblogs.com/
http://susanpolgar.blogspot.com/