Tie break 2nd game. Carlsen and Caruana will play a tiebreaker. Common mistakes in tiebreakers

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Tiebreaker is used in many sports: For example, volleyball, tennis. Did you hear? Chess was not spared from this popular competition format. You and I are chess players and we simply have to know what kind of animal this is, a tiebreaker in chess, and what it is eaten with.

Moreover, at the 2016 World Championship in the Carlsen-Karjakin match, the fate of the match was decided precisely on the tiebreaker. In the last, 4 games. I hope you remember, and maybe even watched the broadcast.

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What is thisIs this a tiebreaker in chess?

A tiebreaker is a continuation of the match. Origin of the word from English tie and break (complete, stop).

When is the tiebreaker played?

The main part of the match consists of a certain number of games in the classical time format.

If at the end of the main part of the match the winner is not identified, that is, the match ends in a draw, a tie-break begins. Several games with shortened time controls.

Most often there are 4 parties. If one of the players scores 2.5 points (for example, one win and three draws), he is declared the winner.

If the first tiebreaker ends in a 2:2 draw, there may be further options depending on the match regulations:

• Another four-game tiebreaker
• Blitz match of two games

If in this case it was not possible to identify a winner, another blitz mini-match of two games is played. There can only be 5 such matches. No more. If there is a draw here, then there is a decisive game, which is called the terrible word Armageddon.

The usual time control in a tiebreaker is 25 minutes for each player for the entire game, with a few seconds added for each move after this time has elapsed.

There may be variations with control, so you should always check the rules with the judge.

How to play tiebreaker?

The strategy and tactics of playing with shortened control has its own characteristics. Let me give you a couple of recommendations:

Best the enemy of the good

Finding the best plan, the strongest move, the ingenious combination - all this is wonderful. But it's better to leave it for the classic game format. All these delights require time to think about. And in a tiebreaker, lengthy reflections are an unaffordable luxury. Control is shortened.

Cause problems for your opponent

Try to get a position, especially in the opening, where the opponent must play accurately.There is not much time, and in an unfamiliar position the opponent may get nervous and make mistakes.

For this purpose, many strong chess players have special opening preparations.

For example:

1.d4 d5 2.c4 e5 3.de d4 Albin's Counter Gambit

Boris Spassky's move.

Now Black must play accurately. Most players continue to develop their pieces by inertia. 4…. Kc6 5.f4 Cb4+6.Cd2 K8e7 7. Cd3

As a result, White has a powerful pawn fist in the center and an extra pawn. It is much better for Black 6... f6!, undermining the center. However, in practice almost no one plays like this. The move is not obvious, it bifurcates the pawn, and with time it doesn’t take much time to evaluate.

Common mistakes in tiebreakers

Getting into time pressure

You can lead a party perfectly, with inspiration, strength and beauty. However, chess players have a saying: the most difficult thing is to win a won position. If you don’t leave yourself time to realize your advantage, all your efforts can easily go to waste in a rush of time pressure.

Passion for calculating long options

Accurate calculation requires time and skill. Until you are a grandmaster, you should not overestimate your strength. Even in your “most accurate” calculation, your opponent will almost always have the opportunity to turn “left”.

In a tiebreaker, try to play hard, avoid gross miscalculations and avoid getting into time trouble. But the opponent’s mistakes usually won’t matter.

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Carlsen and Caruana entered the 56th match for the title of world chess champion into history as the first match in the main part of which not a single game ended successfully. The score at the end of the classic part of the match is 6:6.

In the twelfth game, the white pieces were held by the challenger Fabiano Caruana, whose “white” games in this match are marked by the move “e2-e4” and the Sicilian Defense. In the first part of the match, Caruana played the Rossolimo variation with White (first, third and fifth games), in the second part of the match he played the Chelyabinsk variation in the Sicilian Defense (eighth, tenth and twelfth games).

But, as it turned out in this confrontation, the game is not dictated by white.

In the eleventh game, playing black, Caruana tried to lead his opponent away from theory into more unusual variations. This time Magnus Carlsen played in a new way. The first seven moves of the twelfth game repeated the eighth and tenth. With his eighth move, Carlsen removed his knight from the threat of the white pawn on e7, rather than b8, which was used in the previous games mentioned above. Already in the interval from the tenth to the fourteenth move, a threefold repetition of moves almost happened on the board, which in chess is equivalent to a draw. Fabiano Caruana made several queen maneuvers along the a4-b4-a4-b4 squares, and the world champion responded to each queen maneuver with the bishop d7-f5-d7-f5. Continuing to repeat moves could be a difficult task for the match judges, because according to the rules, a draw in the game is allowed only after the thirtieth move. Challenger Caruana left the peaceful path, answering with the somewhat unobvious 15.C e3?. The challenger then continued with a series of inexplicable decisions (such as 18.f3? and 21. Rh2!?), thereby causing confusion on the part of fellow grandmasters watching the tournament.

“According to my forecast, Caruana will lose, I really don’t like what he’s doing today, it seems that he doesn’t feel the position,” said the 14th world champion Vladimir Kramnik on one of the chess portals.

But Carlsen is a champion because he turned out to be a champion in the matter of inexplicable decisions in the last game. At a time when computer analysis gave a score of "-2" against Caruana, and the challenger himself was significantly behind in time, the Norwegian offered a draw after the 31st move.

“I have never seen Magnus offer a draw in such a position before. A completely playful position with the prospect of winning,” wrote grandmaster, number five in the world ranking Anish Giri in his microblog.

“The offer of a draw came as a surprise to me,” Fabiano Caruana said at a press conference after the game. “It took me some time to make a decision. I checked that I didn’t have a good continuation and agreed.”

Magnus Carlsen himself, answering the journalist’s question why he did not dare to direct the game in a victorious direction, did not reveal his cards.

"Obviously, such a continuation was not part of my plans. My position was safe. Your computer said to play not 25. ...a5, but 25. ...b5, and strongly assessed the position in favor of Black? I don’t care. A draw, as well as a tie- a break is a situation that suits me quite well,” the world champion replied.

According to the rules of the match, when the outcome of the match is moved to a tie-break, the division of the prize fund changes. If the winner were revealed during regular time of the match, he would receive 60% of the one million euros in prize money, the loser - 40%. Now the proportion will become 55% to 45%.

"The last thing I care about now is money," said challenger Fabiano Caruana. “I didn’t even know about it,” Carlsen assured.

Finally, the chess players were asked a question that has become popular today: do they think that a match consisting only of draws can harm the popularization and image of chess?

“I don’t know,” was Magnus Carlsen’s answer.

“It’s not my job to think about it and comment on it. We play in the format that we have. If the regulations of the match are changed, we will play within it,” said Fabiano Caruana.

At the end of the conference, the chief arbiter of the match, Stephane Escafr, held a draw, following which Magnus Carlsen would play the first game of the tiebreak with white pieces.

World crown match tiebreaker rules.

The first stage is rapid. Four games of rapid chess (25 minutes + 10 seconds added per move), if no one wins early.

The second stage is the blitz. If the score remains equal, the opponents will play up to five series of two blitz games (5 minutes + 3 seconds added per move) with white and black. The winner is the player who first wins a series of two games.

The third stage is Armageddon. If all five series end in a draw, the opponents play a “death game” of Armageddon. Whites are given five minutes, blacks four. Starting from move 61, each player gets three seconds per move. The player who wins by lot gets the right to choose the color of the pieces. With an extra minute left, White must win. A draw would mean a black victory. Thus, at any outcome, the game will reveal the winner of the match, who will become the world champion.

Lots of noise, but zero victories. Caruana and Carlsen will determine the champion in a rapid and blitz tiebreaker.

Twelve draws in twelve games. The match for years between Fabiano Caruana and Magnus Carlsen will go down in history as the first where there was not a single successful game.

Despite the consensus among chess programs and grandmaster analysts that Black had a large advantage in the 12th game, the match participants agreed to a draw on the 31st move, since Carlsen prefers a tiebreaker to determine the world champion.

After Tuesday's day off, Carlsen and Caruana will continue to play rapid chess (and blitz if necessary) in Wednesday, November 28. In the first game of the tiebreak, Carlsen will play with white.

By the way, twelve games in a draw is nothing - in 1863, at a match for the world championship in checkers, two of the strongest players in the world met, and then everything ended in a draw 40 games (and 21 of them were completely identical!).

In comparison, the London match is just a fire, although today the fight had barely flared up before the world champion extinguished it. It's like watching the first half of a Tarantino film, where the intrigue thickens, but it all ends with the characters putting away their weapons and sitting down to drink tea.

“At the moment I was not in the right mood to fight for victory,” Carlsen said after the game.

FIDE President Arkady Dvorkovich visited the game.

The world's most powerful computer programs (including Stockfish, Komodo, Houdini And Lilu) will fight in this position With1:00 on Tuesday, November 26, Moscow time and before the start of the tiebreaker at the World Chess Championship.

Watch the video with analysis of the game from GM Alexey Ermolinsky:

One journalist suggested that the participants in the match assessed the middlegame differently. “I didn’t say that the enemy’s position was good, nothing like that,” Carlsen clarified. "I said that the risk-free path to winning was not obvious, and I didn't want to take risks. I don't think there's much of a contradiction here."

Caruana agreed: "Our estimates were probably very similar," he said. "I don't think either of us clearly saw the path to victory for Black, but we both understood that White was under pressure. This is obvious to any decent chess player."

Participants of the match with Danny King at a press conference. |Photo by Maria Emelyanova/website.

The handshake was a relief for Caruana as he escaped his most precarious position in two weeks. Like books standing at the end of a shelf, his first and last games tilted, but between them he held his own.

"I'm relieved because I was close to losing today," Caruana said. "I was very nervous during the game. When you find yourself on the verge of losing, or in a very dangerous position, not losing is a very good thing."

The peace proposal surprised even Carlsen's manager, Esper Agdestein.

From the very beginning of the match, Carlsen did not object to a tiebreaker.

Both opponents showed confidence ahead of the tiebreaker.

“Obviously my chances are very good, but anything can happen,” Carlsen said. "Until today I thought going to a tiebreaker would be a good result and I'm still happy about it."

Caruana has already said that he rates his chances highly, much higher than most experts.

— Hikaru Nakamura (@GMHikaru) November 26, 2018

“Given that Caruana showed superiority in all aspects of the match: the opening preparation, the transition to the middlegame, the endgame, it would be strange if he lost it.” - Hikaru Nakamura, November 26, 2018.

12 games showed us how well the opponents prepared for the match. Levon Aronyan told the site live that in his opinion Caruana and his team showed the best preparation, although Carlsen tried to strengthen himself in this regard.

"I don't know, I don't think it matters at all right now," Carlsen said of that assessment. “The match has been equal so far, so it’s not interesting who was better prepared.”

Caruana's answer was somewhat more detailed and modest: "We both had our moments. Neither of us showed dominance at any stage of the game. Everything was balanced."

Legendary chess photographer Harry Benson, who took many of Bobby Fischer's famous photographs in 1972, was photographing another potential world champion today.

The last game of this match turned out to be similar to the 12th game of the match in New York. Then Carlsen also sought a draw and a tiebreaker. The difference is that he played with white and simply changed pieces whenever possible. This time the last game turned out to be more meaningful.

What is more disappointing: giving up the fight or the fight being interrupted at the most interesting point? This may depend on personal preference. Compare your impressions of the matches with your impressions of the ending of The Sopranos.

Tiebreaker Rules

• If the score is tied after 12 games, a tiebreaker is held of four games of rapid chess, 25 minutes each with an addition of 10 seconds per move.
• If these games do not reveal a winner, two blitz games will take place (5 minutes each with an addition of 3 seconds per move). If the score is equal, after two games two more are played, and so on. If the score remains tied after five episodes, Armageddon will take place. The player who wins the toss has the right to choose a color. White will get five minutes and black will get 4 minutes until the 60th move. Starting from the 61st move, opponents will be given 3 seconds per move. If the game is tied, Black wins the match.

Report prepared with input from Peter Doggers.

Including in daily reports on. You can follow the match on and live on Twitch.tv/Chess- to the commentators MM to Daniel Rensch And GM Robert Hess special guests join each day including Hikaru Nakamura, Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, Wesley So, Sam Shankland and other famous chess players.

GM Alexey Ermolinsky posts his videos with detailed analysis of games after each round.

Current US champion Sam Shankland analyzes each game in detail for our news reports.

The last day of the world title match between the current world champion (Norway) and the challenger (Russia). A tough fight in the classics. . The outcome of the tiebreaker will decide the fate of the chess crown. First, the opponents will play four games with a time control of 25 minutes per game + 10 seconds per move. If the score remains equal, two blitz games are played with a time control of 5 minutes + 3 seconds. If five pairs of blitz games do not reveal a winner, the decisive game is played - “Armageddon” (5 minutes for White - 4 for Black) with an addition of 3 seconds for each move, starting from the 61st. A draw with black is equal to winning the match.

First batch: The Russian chess player, who by lot fell to play as white, began to actively play. The Spanish game was played. Carlsen already gained a time advantage in the opening. The computer gives a slight preference to Karjakin, but Carlsen has a serious temporary advantage. And...on move 37 the opponents agreed to a draw. Tiebreaker score - 0,5:0,5

Second batch: The opponents quickly made their initial moves. Unfortunately, in the middle of the game, Sergei again wastes more time. The Norwegian sacrificed a pawn to create a passed pawn. Karjakin has no time left; his position is very difficult. In the finishing, Karjakin played very quickly and clearly and forced Carsen into a stalemate. The draw was concluded on the 83rd move. Tiebreaker score - 1:1

Third batch: And again - the Spanish party. And again, Carlsen has a big time advantage. On move 37 – almost 7 minutes. And......all this on move 38 led to a grave mistake on the part of the challenger. Unfortunately 0:1. Karjakin lost to Carlsen in the third game of the tiebreaker. Tiebreaker score - 2:1 in favor of Carlsen.

Decisive, 3rd game of tiebreaker with simultaneous analysis of the three strongest TCEC engines - Houdini and Stokfish.

Fourth game: For the first time in the match - Sicilian defense. Karjakin is active. After all, he only needs victory. Carlsen, for his part, does not force things and plays the game calmly. Perhaps for the first time, he thinks long and painstakingly about each move and now he does not have an overwhelming advantage in time. It is not yet clear what Sergei can do. He again thought for a long time and lost time. Karjakin plays only by adding 10 seconds. It is unlikely that he will have time to win... And unfortunately Karjakin lost this game after White’s 50th move. Finite result tiebreak - 3:1 in favor of Carlsen.

With simultaneous analysis of the three strongest TSES engines - Houdini and Stokfish.

Sergey Karyakin fighting as equal to equal with Carlsen. Moreover, he was even in the lead in the score and missed the opportunity to win in the classics. Karjakin fought courageously and deserves great respect. The future is his.

Magnus Carlsen born on November 30, 1990 into a family of engineers in Tønsberg, Norway. He first took part in a chess tournament at the age of 8. At the age of 13, he beat Anatoly Karpov in blitz and played a draw in rapid chess with Garry Kasparov. At the age of 13 years and 148 days he became a grandmaster - this puts him in third place in the list of the youngest chess players to receive this title. In 2013, he became the world champion, beating Viswanathan Anand in ten games. He is the first ever absolute world chess champion in all three categories (classical chess, rapid and blitz).

Sergey Karjakin commented on his game today in front of Norwegian television. " To be honest, I didn't play well today. I looked worse in all the games. It was hard to play rapid chess after a marathon of classical chess. In general, everything turned out not so bad. I hope that I can once again gain the right to compete for the chess crown through the Candidates Tournament"- said Karyakin.