But not long after the world No 1 gave up his stronghold in the center with the committal 17 exd4, a flurry of rapid simplification began and the action fizzled out fast. Riga Variation of the Ruy Lopez 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Ba4 Nf6 5.0-0 Nxe4 6.d4 exd4 Rio de Janeiro Variation of the Ruy Lopez 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 Nf6 4.O-O Nxe4 5.d4 Be7 Romanian Opening (or Dunst Opening) 1.Nc3 Russian Defense of the Ruy Lopez 1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Ba4 Nf6 5.0-0 d6 Russian Game (or Petrov's Defense) 1.e4 e5 2. Nepomniachtchi, marshaling the white pieces, played 1 e4 before the pair blitzed out their opening moves into the same anti-Marshall line of the Ruy Lopez that had featured in each of the Russian’s three previous games as white (1 … e5 2 Nf3 Nc6 3 Bb5 a6 4 Ba4 Nf6 5 O-O Be7 6 Re1 b5 7 Bb3).Ĭarlsen took lengthy thinks of 33 combined minutes before his 12th and 15th moves, falling more than 20 minutes behind his opponent on time. Unsurprisingly, Saturday’s seventh game was a far shorter affair as the pair agreed to a quiet draw after 2hr 30min and took the opportunity to recover. 1 d4 Nf6 2 c4 c5 3 d5 e6 4 Nc3 exd5 5 cxd5 d6 6 e4 g6 7 f4 Bg7 8 Bb5+ A67: Indian Defence-King Pawn Lines-Pawn Storm Variation. If you like soundly-based, but unorthodox chess, then 1 e4 Nc6 might very well be. The overall score in the showdown between Magnus Carlsen and Ian Nepomniachtchi is 4-3 to Carlsen after the Norwegian’s breakthrough win in Friday’s Game 6, which surpassed the 124-move stalemate in Game 5 of the 1978 title match between Anatoly Karpov and Viktor Korchnoi as the longest contest in the 135-year history of world championship matchplay. The repertoire consists of: 1 e4 Nc6 2 Nf3 a) 2.d6 (Tough, positional) b) 2.d5 (Open, aggressive, unorthodox) 1 e4 Nc6 d4 d5 3 e5 Bf5 (Solid with attacking intent) 1 e4 Nc6 2 d4 d5 3 Nc3 e6 (A Nimzovich favourite in the French, which is very topical in 2015).

Hello and welcome back for the eighth game of the World Chess Championship.

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