World Championship 2018 - Closing Ceremony LIVE

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11/28/2018 – The moment we've all been waiting for! Live games (for Premium members) from the 2018 World Championship match in London. Every two games will be followed by a rest day until Game 12 (if necessary) on November 26th which will be preceded by an additional rest day. All rounds start at 15:00 UT (London time) / 16:00 CEST / 10:00 EST. If needed there would be a rapid tiebreak match on Wednesday, November 28th. | Photos: Patricia Claros

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Closing ceremony

Magnus Carlsen won the tiebreak match 3-0 to reclaim the World Championship title. Here the players receive their awards:

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Round-up shows

ChessBase commentators break down the day's action in a free live video. The show is available on-demand for replay any time with a ChessBase Premium account.

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Tiebreak

There were be four rapid games in which the players received 25 minutes plus a 10-second bonus per move starting from move 1. 


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First 30 minutes of the Tiebreak

Commentary by GM Judit Polgar and IM Anna Rudolf

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Game 12 summary


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GM Daniel King provides a 5-minute look at the main events of the day:

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Schedule and analysis plan

ChessBase will be publishing extensive annotations, both in video and written form with an all-star team of analysts:

Friday 09.11.2018 Game 1 Yannick Pelletier / Jan-Krzysztof Duda
Saturday 10.11.2018 Game 2 Yannick Pelletier / Jan-Krzysztof Duda
Sunday 11.11.2018 Rest day  
Monday 12.11.2018 Game 3 Yannick Pelletier / Jan-Krzysztof Duda
Tuesday 13.11.2018 Game 4 Yannick Pelletier / Michael Adams
Wednesday 14.11.2018 Rest day  
Thursday 15.11.2018 Game 5 Yannick Pelletier / Aryan Tari
Friday 16.11.2018 Game 6 Lawrence Trent / Efstratios Grivas
Saturday 17.11.2018 Rest day  
Sunday 18.11.2018 Game 7 Yannick Pelletier / Daniel Fernandez
Monday 19.11.2018 Game 8 Yannick Pelletier / Wesley So
Tuesday 20.11.2018 Rest day  
Wednesday 21.11.2018 Game 9 Erwin l'Ami / David Navara
Thursday 22.11.2018 Game 10 Erwin l'Ami / Sam Shankland
Friday 23.11.2018 Rest day  
Saturday 24.11.2018 Game 11 Lawrence Trent / Boris Gelfand
Sunday 25.11.2018 Rest day  
Monday 26.11.2018 Game 12 Erwin l'Ami / Wesley So
Tuesday 27.11.2018 Rest day  
Wednesday 28.11.2018 Tiebreak Yannick Pelletier / Daniel Fernandez

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