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    The Nepo Shuffle -- The 2021 World Chess Championship

    And this? View: https://twitter.com/MagnusCarlsen/status/1566848734616555523
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    The Nepo Shuffle -- The 2021 World Chess Championship

    He also said he wouldn’t play in the Olympiad as a reserve. Vasily Smyslov and Mikhail Tal each played twice as 1st reserve and once as a 2nd reserve for the USSR team after being world champion.
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    The Nepo Shuffle -- The 2021 World Chess Championship

    And why would Caruana want to fight for a title with a king-sized asterisk on it? I’m almost sure he’s aiming for 1st place (and his position looks better, too).
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    The Nepo Shuffle -- The 2021 World Chess Championship

    And now the candidates tournament itself started. Online YouTube coverage in the above channels. A quick evaluation of all games in chess24 site.
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    The Nepo Shuffle -- The 2021 World Chess Championship

    And now the Belgrade tournament started. Russian players playing under the FIDE flag. Live broadcast in the above channels. The moves and machine evaluation only are in the chesss24 site.
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    The Nepo Shuffle -- The 2021 World Chess Championship

    The first one is very significant, because the upcoming Olympiad and FIDE congress are to be moved away from Moscow. It’s shocking, especially since FIDE president, Arkady Dvorkovich, is Russian. I don’t know about the money, but chess wasn’t invented in Russia or any part of the former Soviet...
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    The Nepo Shuffle -- The 2021 World Chess Championship

    Castling isn’t the only exception. It isn’t a threefold repetition draw if en passant capturing was possible in the first occurrence of the three.
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    The Nepo Shuffle -- The 2021 World Chess Championship

    The FIDE Grand Prix series is underway in Berlin, with two more tournaments (Belgrade and Berlin again) to follow. The top two finishers will join Nepomniachtchi, Radjabov, Duda, Karjakin, Firouzja, and Caruana in the Madrid candidates tournament. More information about the Grand Prix series...
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    The Nepo Shuffle -- The 2021 World Chess Championship

    Levy must have read this thread, or at least its title. At 31:33 he says: “Nepo was drawing, he just has to shuffle”. Anyway, the 2022 candidates tournament is due to take place June 16-July 7, 2022 in Madrid: https://en.chessbase.com/post/candidates-2022-in-madrid Not much preparation time for...
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    The Nepo Shuffle -- The 2021 World Chess Championship

    Carlsen could have won the tournament with 59..Re2. Now calculating tiebreaks to see who makes the playoff.
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    The Nepo Shuffle -- The 2021 World Chess Championship

    Oops, didn't wait until round end. I think Carlsen dropped his position from drawn to lost 3 times since entering endgame database territory.
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    The Nepo Shuffle -- The 2021 World Chess Championship

    Abdusattorov beats Carlsen in a drawn Queen ending, and takes sole lead with 8/10.
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    The Nepo Shuffle -- The 2021 World Chess Championship

    Well, compared to the 53 minutes Fischer gave Reshevsky in Sousse 1967…
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    The Nepo Shuffle -- The 2021 World Chess Championship

    For those of us who failed to get to the minimum 2550 mark and had to stay home - 5 out of 13 rapid rounds have been played today. The co-leaders with 4.5/5 are Duda, Jobava (they just drew a thriller), and Carlsen, who already won 2 drawn endgames.
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    The Nepo Shuffle -- The 2021 World Chess Championship

    A very interesting start to today’s game. Carlsen’s 7.Nd2 is rare (played 48 times in the past vs. over 4,500 times 0-0 was played). Instead of playing it safe, Nepo responded with the risky 8…Bd6 (Qe7+ is safer) and 9…h5 (a novelty).
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    The Nepo Shuffle -- The 2021 World Chess Championship

    The losing move was 130...Qe6:
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    The Nepo Shuffle -- The 2021 World Chess Championship

    All positions with 7 pieces or less are analyzed in DBs until mate or draw. For 6 pieces or less this site is perfect: http://www.k4it.de/?topic=egtb&lang=en for exactly 7 I use Lomonosov Tablebases application on Android. Now it shows Carlsen mates in 37.
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    The Nepo Shuffle -- The 2021 World Chess Championship

    According to ChessBase application, 8.c4 was only played twice in the past (8.Bb2 44 times), 8…dxc4 once in 1995, and 9.Qc2 is a novelty.
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    The Nepo Shuffle -- The 2021 World Chess Championship

    The 1984/5 match seems like the exception, not the rule, as it was played under the 6 win rule, which was abolished after it (and to think Fischer got a majority in FIDE congress for 10 wins in 1975). I don’t think their subsequent matches had a high draw rate (2/3) even by 20th century match...
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    The Nepo Shuffle -- The 2021 World Chess Championship

    Here are the thoughts of the players at the end of game 4: View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tfPNS2_gAb4 Game 5 underway - Ruy Lopez again. Maybe it was mentioned somewhere here and I missed it, but I think the most accurate online analysis is in sesse.
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