Carlsen in World Championships: the 2016 match

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Carlsen in World Championships: the 2016 match
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After successfully defending his title in 2014 against Anand (Game Collection: Carlsen in World Championships: the 2014 match), Carlsen got to play the next defense in 2016. The challenger determined was Sergey Karjakin. It is the third World Championship match in history in which both players are born in the same year (after Lasker-Janowski and Kramnik-Topalov), and the World Championship match with the smallest summary age of players ever. The latter is probably not surprising, after all both the champion and the challenger started off as chess prodigies.

Karjakin's qualifying path, backwards:

Winner of World Championship Candidates (2016)

Winner of World Cup (2015)

Rating

The classical part of the match ended 6:6 (+1 -1 =10). Carlsen won the rapid tiebreaks 3:1 (+2 -0 =2)

Game 1
Carlsen vs Karjakin, 2016
(A45) Queen's Pawn Game, 42 moves, 1/2-1/2
Game 2
Karjakin vs Carlsen, 2016
(C78) Ruy Lopez, 33 moves, 1/2-1/2
Game 3
Carlsen vs Karjakin, 2016
(C67) Ruy Lopez, 78 moves, 1/2-1/2
Game 4
Karjakin vs Carlsen, 2016
(C84) Ruy Lopez, Closed, 94 moves, 1/2-1/2
Game 5
Carlsen vs Karjakin, 2016
(C50) Giuoco Piano, 51 moves, 1/2-1/2
Game 6
Karjakin vs Carlsen, 2016
(C84) Ruy Lopez, Closed, 32 moves, 1/2-1/2
Game 7
Karjakin vs Carlsen, 2016
(D10) Queen's Gambit Declined Slav, 33 moves, 1/2-1/2
Game 8
Carlsen vs Karjakin, 2016
(D05) Queen's Pawn Game, 52 moves, 0-1
Game 9
Karjakin vs Carlsen, 2016
(C78) Ruy Lopez, 74 moves, 1/2-1/2
Game 10
Carlsen vs Karjakin, 2016
(C65) Ruy Lopez, Berlin Defense, 75 moves, 1-0
Game 11
Karjakin vs Carlsen, 2016
(C78) Ruy Lopez, 34 moves, 1/2-1/2
Game 12
Carlsen vs Karjakin, 2016
(C67) Ruy Lopez, 30 moves, 1/2-1/2
Rapid Game 1
Karjakin vs Carlsen, 2016
(C78) Ruy Lopez, 37 moves, 1/2-1/2
Rapid Game 2
Carlsen vs Karjakin, 2016
(C50) Giuoco Piano, 84 moves, 1/2-1/2
Rapid Game 3
Karjakin vs Carlsen, 2016
(C78) Ruy Lopez, 38 moves, 0-1
Rapid Game 4
Carlsen vs Karjakin, 2016
(B54) Sicilian, 50 moves, 1-0
16 games

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