December 3, 2021 11:01 pm
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Magnus Carlsen Wins Longest World Chess Championship Game of All Time
The first victory of the 2021 FIDE World Championship happened in game 6 after GM Magnus Carlsen defeated GM Ian Nepomniachtchi in a record 136 moves. Chess.com reports: Carlsen's victory came after the world champion exchanged a queen for two rooks, provoking a long, tense endgame -- a strategy that eventually proved effective. With both players working on increment after move 80, Magnus converted the position into a rook, knight, and two pawns for a queen, which ended up enough to take the match lead. It was the first decisive game in the classical rounds of a world championship in over five years.Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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