Wesley So: How Carlsen tried to spice up game 11
11/27/2016 – Game 11, 5.5-.5.5: Last regular White for Karjakin. What happened? After 1.e4 Carlsen avoided the Berlin and went for a classical system. He later tried to generate some threats, and Karjakin wasn't too impressed by his own play, as he later told after the game. Wesley So shares his perspective in our Newsblog 2016-11-27...
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World Chess Championship Carlsen Karjakin, New York - Newsblog 2016-11-27
Game No 11 - Notes by Wesley So
Poll: Who will win the match? And will there be a tie-break?
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16.10 Hamburg / 10.10 New York: What we all would like to know: "Who is the favorite to win this thing?"
16.02 Hamburg / 10.02 New York: "What's your main reply after 1.e4 besides e5?" And, ahem..., any novelties prepared?
12.58 Hamburg / 6.58 am New York: Press conference snippets part 1 - analysis
12.58 Hamburg / 6.58 am New York: Press conference snippets part 2 - questions
11.29 Hamburg / 5.29 am New York: Yannick Pelletier did a round up show on game 11 on playchess.com. Watch it here.
11.20 / 5.20 am: Some remarkable pictures by Max Avdeev:
Sergey Karjakin being scrutinized
Last glance before the game
Magnus Carlsen arriving backstage
Last regular White for Sergey Karjakin
A Ruy Lopez unfolds
12.15 Mumbai / 7.45 Hamburg / 1.47 New York: Peter Svidler has experienced this variation in depth in his own games. ChessBase India reports on the eleventh game with key positions and analysis by 12-year-old prodigy Nihal Sarin: A Tale of Two Pawn Structures.
23.24 / 17.24: Draw - after 34 moves game 11 ended in a draw by perpetual check. With one game to go the score is 5.5-5.5.
World Chess Championship 2016 Newsblogs:
- November 26, Game 11, notes by Wesley So
- November 25, Rest Day
- November 24, Game 10, notes by Wesley So
- November 23, Game 9, notes by Fabiano Caruana
- November 22, Rest Day
- November 21, Game 8, notes by Fabiano Caruana
- November 20, Game 7, notes by Tiger Hillarp Persson
- November 19, Rest Day
- November 18, Game 6, notes by Tiger Hillarp Persson
- November 17, Game 5, notes by John Nunn
- November 16, Rest Day
- November 15, Game 4, notes by Dorian Rogozenco
- November 14, Game No. 3, notes by Yasser Seirawan
- November 13, Rest Day
- November 12, Game 2, notes by Ruslan Ponomariov
- November 11, Game 1, notes by Ruslan Ponomariov
