Games
[Event "FIDE World Championship 2016"]
[Site "New York, USA"]
[Date "2016.11.28"]
[Round "12"]
[White "Carlsen, Magnus"]
[Black "Karjakin, Sergey"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "C67"]
[WhiteElo "2853"]
[BlackElo "2772"]
[Annotator "Llewellyn,Alan"]
[PlyCount "60"]
[EventDate "2016.??.??"]
{Basically this game is a non-event, neither side wanted to slip up at the
last moment so Magnus allows the Berlin Defence (known for its lack of a win
for either side) and Sergey goes entirely along with that plan. Magnus used up
an incredible 17 minutes (because it is so small, for such an important game)
to play the 30 moves, and Sergey wasnt far behind on 27 minutes. That takes
into account the 30 seconds added after every move played. I won't annotate
the game as no mistakes, or interesting moves happen.} 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3.
Bb5 Nf6 4. O-O Nxe4 5. Re1 Nd6 6. Nxe5 Be7 7. Bf1 Nxe5 8. Rxe5 O-O 9. d4 Bf6
10. Re1 Re8 11. Bf4 Rxe1 12. Qxe1 Ne8 13. c3 d5 14. Bd3 g6 15. Na3 c6 16. Nc2
Ng7 17. Qd2 Bf5 18. Bxf5 Nxf5 19. Ne3 Nxe3 20. Qxe3 Qe7 21. Qxe7 Bxe7 22. Re1
Bf8 23. Kf1 f6 24. g4 Kf7 25. h3 Re8 26. Rxe8 Kxe8 27. Ke2 Kd7 28. Kd3 Ke6 29.
a4 a6 30. f3 Be7 {No King is going to infilrate either position- The match was
played according to Sophia Rules which stipulate that no draw can be agreed
before the 30th move. As soon as the rules were adhered to the match ended
with the draw tied at 6 - 6. I will repeat the tie-break rules, mentioned in
the game 10 text:- a rapidplay tie-break and then if necesary, a blitz match
series will occur to determine the winner. The rules for this are as follows
in the rapidplay tie-break 4 games will be played of 25 minutes plus 10
seconds increment, if still even after that a Blitz rapidplay of a series of 5
x 2 game matches will be played of 5 minutes and 3 second increment if no
winner after each 2 games is played occurs then a sudden death game will
decide matters with white having 5 minutes and black 4 and 3 second increment
after move 60. A draw in the sudden death game will mean victory for black.
The colours (of who starts as white) will be decided by lots before the start
of each section. The tie break will be on the Wednesday 30th November
(incidentaly Magnuses Birthday)-the results should be up by 1 am in Britain on
the 1st December.} 1/2-1/2