Magnus Carlsen Retains World Chess Championship Title Sunday Nov 23,2014

 

World chess champion, Norway's Magnus Carlsen retained his title, handing out a punishing defeat to Indian challenger Viswanathan Anand in the 11th round of their title match in Russia on Sunday Nov 23,2014


The final score at the end of 11th round stands at 6.5-4.5 in favour of Magnus Carlsen.

The reigning world champion punished Anand for his misadventurous exchange sacrifice on move 24 to wrap up the game in 45 moves

Playing white, Carlsen opened by pushing his king pawn two squares forward. The game soon transposed into Ruy Lopez-Berlin defence.

And as it happened in the earlier games, Carlsen went in for exchange of queens.

On move 9, Anand moved his white bishop to d7 square which was considered as a fighting move.
Both the players blitzed their moves consuming around five minutes for the first 12 moves.

 Note
The match included twelve games, with time controls of 120 minutes for the first 40 moves, 60 minutes for the next 20 moves and then 15 minutes for the rest of the game, with an increment of 30 seconds per move starting from move 61. The first person to score 6.5 was to be declared the champion. A tiebreak of faster-time control games would have been held in case of equal scores by both the players after 12 games