The World Champion, Magnus Carlsen, retains his title after winning 2 of the 4 rapid games in the tie-break round. See match breakdown of the rapid round below:
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Replay the games of the rapid round:[replay]
The rapid games were necessary after the match was even at 6 points apiece after 12 rounds of classical-format games, the match breakdown of which follow:
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Replay all the games of the World Championship match, including the rapid games.
The Challenger, Sergey Karjakin, regardless of the loss in the match, but because of his solid plays to even the score at the end of Round 12, his ratings picked up. He gained 13 ELO points in the December 2016 ratings list, now ranked at number 6, from number 9 in November.
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Coleen, take a look of this 🙂
Woa! Di ko pa mapapanood ngayon. I’ll watch this after the exams.
yun nga eh! HHHH. browse browse lang din ako. naalala lang kita na mahilig sa chess 😉 aral mabuti
Hahaha. Thanks sa pag alala! Ikaw din mag aral ng mabuti 🙂
xempre, ikaw pa ba naman ang di ko maalala, coleeeeeen (all teeth out) HHHH. cgi aral mode na ulit
Yea aral mode 🙂
Best match I’ve ever known!
tapos na daw,,
Congrat’z magnus.
Yes… sabi q n nga ba eh, he cn do it…
all around player
Go idol…manuever your pieces in winning form