16 if the players remain tied.Ĭarlsen-Nepomniachtchi, World Chess Championship, Game 4, Dubai, November 2021 1. The game is played on a 9 by 9 board, which is checkered with a black square in the left corners. The first player to score 7½ points wins, with a one-day rapid and blitz playoff set for Dec. Nf3), the Modern Defense is a noncommittal, deferred opening that doesnt. Subsequent editions were written or edited by others as the tradition passed down. It is difficult even for good players to determine exactly when a pawn break.
It has been the standard English language work on openings for almost a century - the first edition came out in 1911, written by Griffith and White. White generally directs pressure on Blacks e-pawn and tries to prepare for a pawn on d4. In it, White creates a potential pin of the d-pawn or Knight and starts an attack immediately, while simultaneously preparing to castle. Nepomniachtchi will again have the advantage of the White pieces in Wednesday’s Game 5 before the second rest day of the match. Modern Chess Openings (MCO) is a one-volume reference book covering all the chess openings. The opening is still in active use it is a favorite of Gary Kasparov and Bobby Fischer. White stuck with the main theoretical lines and obtained some mild pressure entering the middlegame - while using far more time on his clock than the Russian.īut an early queen trade left White struggling to generate chances, even after Carlsen was able to trade bishops and get a rook and a knight planted deep in his opponent’s position.Ī passed a-pawn gave Black plenty of compensation, and in the end, a frustrated White settled for repeated checks against Black’s boxed-in king, leading to a draw after 36 moves. Nepomiachtchi appeared to surprise the champ with a Petroff’s Defense (2…Nf6), an opening he had never played before. e4 Tuesday, after experiencing some opening discomfort with a Closed Catalan in Game 2. The draw leaves their scheduled 14-game match in Dubai knotted at 2-2. Portions of this work were previously published, in different form, in Modern Chess Openings, 13th Edition, by Nick de Firmian and Walter Korn, published by David McKay Company, a division of Random House, Inc., in 1990. Chess champion Magnus Carlsen tried a new opening with White Tuesday, but the result was the same: yet another draw in Game 4 of his title defense against Russian challenger Ian Nepomniachtchi.
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