For Magnus, the time for talking is clearly over: Our Game 9 report
A head injury sustained playing football wasn’t enough to put world chess champion Magnus Carlsen off in Game 9 as London’s big title match was left teetering on a knife-edge. Norway’s 27-year-old rock star of chess tersely denied he was bothered by the very obvious black-eye as the latest round of his three-week-long contest with […]
Magnus Carlsen isn’t exactly loving all these draws: Our Game 7 report
Pacifists will be delighted – Carlsen-Caruana Game 7 ended in yet another peaceful outcome. But the rest of us who want blood and guts spilled before us could be forgiven being slightly disappointed as the World Chess Championship remained deadlocked and without a win. >> Who is world chess champion Magnus Carlsen’s favourite player? Himself, […]
Sky News host Kay Burley on chess: ‘It’s so glitzy and fabulous’
TV presenter Kay Burley has told how she loves the glitzy “sport” of chess and would be fascinated to find out how the top two players Magnus Carlsen and Fabiano Caruana interact together. The Sky News anchor, who hosts also The Kay Burley Show and Kay Meets, was at the venue of the World Chess Championship in […]
Carlsen snuffs out Caruana’s ‘fireworks’: Our Round 5 report
Magnus Carlsen played a blinder in the opening today as Fabiano Caruana tried to warm-up the World Chess Championship, but it ultimately failed to ignite. Carlsen-Caruana Game 5 ended in yet another draw, this time agreed after three and a quarter hour and 34 moves, following a fascinating period of play in the opening between […]
Who is world chess champion Magnus Carlsen’s favourite player? Himself, of course
Magnus Carlsen’s jokes have so far been the undoubted highlight of this year’s World Championship – especially given that the match itself has been stricken by five draws in a row. And, after today’s round 5 game ended all-square, his dry sense of humour was on show again at the post-match press conference. Asked who his […]
Fabiano Caruana’s prep accidentally uploaded to YouTube
Fabiano Caruana’s bid to capture the World Chess Championship was dealt a severe blow today when a disastrous leak on YouTube revealed months of the challenger’s top-secret prep. A clip showing names of the world number 2’s meticulously researched openings appeared on the Saint Louis Chess Club’s channel hours before Round 4 of his title match […]
‘Deadlock’ in Carlsen-Caruana match after third draw: Our Round 3 report
The World Chess Championship match between Magnus Carlsen and Fabiano Caruana remains, in the champion’s words, “deadlocked” after a third straight draw. There is still nothing to separate the world’s top two players – divided by just three points in the rankings – following another shut-out in round 3. The Norwegian top dog pressed his […]
Magnus Carlsen ‘complains about the cold at World Chess Championship’
It’s a game desperate to present itself as the new “cool” – but maybe this time it has gone a little too far. The 2018 World Chess Championship started in London last week promising a clash to rival the titanic Cold War battle between Boris Spassky and Bobby Fischer. Well, it certainly was cold. So […]
Speedy Caruana can’t break through Carlsen’s defences: Our Round 2 report
The thrills and spills of Round 1 were, unfortunately, long gone. In comparison, Game 2 of the Magnus Carlsen Vs Fabiano Caruana World Chess Championship match proved to be a bit of a damp squib. It was “insipid”, the chess journalist John Saunders told Your Correspondent, perhaps a little harshly. While yesterday’s dicey draw lasted […]
Magnus Carlsen net worth: How much has the chess champ earned?
He’s the world’s greatest chess player with an earning power that dwarfs his rivals. But what is Magnus Carlsen net worth? Carlsen, the undisputed cash king of chess, hasn’t ever revealed exactly how much he has earned from the game. But the latest estimates usually start at around $10 million in prize money. How Much […]
Thrills from Carlsen, and spills from Woody: Our Round 1 report
The first game of the 2018 World Chess Championship ended in an epic 115-move draw lasting seven hours as Norway’s “Mozart of chess” Magnus Carlsen missed a clear chance to win. There was a real buzz of excitement in the air as the 12-round title match, the first to be held in London since 2000, […]
Magnus Carlsen jokes: ‘Women hate me, I repel them’
Sometimes it’s the most disarming of questions that elicit the best answers, and so it was at the World Chess Championship pre-match press conference today. The contenders, Magnus Carlsen and Fabiano Caruana were asked, while sat in the full glare of a hoard of media, whether they have any female support behind them for the […]