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We’re anticipating an extremely close battle between Magnus Carlsen and Fabiano Caruana for the World Chess Championship match in November. We’re sure that whatever the outcome, it will throw out much excitement, amazing moves, tense positions and complicated endgames. The big question is who will win this epic battle and emerge as the World Chess Champion? Can the favorite, Carlsen, retain his title, or can Caruana add his name to the list of Chess Champions of history? If any top player has a chance, it has to be Caruana.
GM Damian Lemos thinks that it is too close for any safe bets – it is almost impossible to make any predictions. He says that this year’s World Chess Championship in London will be as close to 50/50 as you can get, with both players having next to no weaknesses.
On the one hand we have Magnus Carlsen who is undoubtedly the greatest player of recent times. Some believe he could be the greatest player in history, exceeding even the greats like Garry Kasparov and Bobby Fischer. It’s a reputation well deserved. Since his victory in the World Championship Match against the great Vishy Anand in 2013, nobody has been able to match his talent and take the chess crown away from him.
On the other hand, however, Fabiano Caruana will prove to be tough competitor for Carlsen. Caruana fully deserves his spot in the match, having consistently improved over the past few years. He just gets better and better, and his Candidates Tournament performance at the beginning of the year was outstanding. Caruana showed just how impressive he can be, coming out on top of the best players in the world, including Vladimir Kramnik, Levon Aronian, and a very in-form Shakhriyar Mamedyarov who would have played well enough to win any other time.
Caruana has the stronger opening preparation of the two players. In openings with theory battles, Carlsen regularly chooses the offbeat lines, but Caruana confidently goes for the main lines.
In this video, GM Damian Lemos explores a great game the two played against each other at the 2015 Gashimov Memorial in which Carlsen opts to play a Dutch Defense, not something we see often at the top level. Might he try something unusual like this in the big match in an attempt to throw Caruana out of opening theory early on?
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