World Chess Championship.- Magnus Carlsen vs. Sergey Karjakin. (GAME 11) [video analysis]

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Magnus Carlsen vs Sergey Karjakin

Between November 11 and 30, 2016, the match that will determine the next World Chess Champion is being played in New York. As is well known, the contenders are Grand Masters Magnus Carlsen (current champion) and Sergey Karjakin (title contender).

The Norwegian and Russian are playing a match to 12 games, and will be awarded World Champion who earns 6.5 points. In the event that the match ends tied in 6 points, it will be defined in a tie-break session, which will consist of quick matches first, if the tie persists, blitz will be played and if necessary, it will be defined in Armageddon.

Time control: 100 minutes for the first 40 moves, followed by 50 minutes for 20 more moves, and then 15 minutes for the rest of the game. In all periods there will be 30 seconds increment per move.

Game 11

Karjakin, with the white pieces, overcame his recent defeat while Carlsen looked good for the draw and in the closing day will have the slight advantage of driving White. "To see art they will have to go to other competitions, here we play a lot and risk little," declared the champion in his appearance before the journalists in a perfect summary of what happened on the board.

The position might seem dangerous at first glance; In fact, they were fireworks since the equality was absolute in spite of the presence of queens and rooks with an apparent dangerous past pawn. In addition, not even the possibility of the time rush hovered the position. So, everyone is happy and thinking about how to face the twelfth game that can be decisive in their careers and their lives. The important thing will not be so much the movements as the psychology and the control of the emotions.

You can view an exelent analysis from Daniel King who explain us all the details of game 11.