Carlsen is expected to start his World Championship Preparations

It is said that Carlsen is bit more serious about upcoming World Championship Match to be held in US in November . It may be because in previous two World Championships in which he played against Vishy Anand ,the openings were almost familiar for both . But against Karjakin he has different opening strategies . Carlsen has played French Defence as black against Karjakin in previous encounters ,whereas against Anand he would have never even thought to play it. On the other hand as white there is a possibility of Karjakin troubling Carlsen with Queens Indian Defence which is highly strategical and requires more time to analyse . Last two World Championship s between Anand and Carlsen had many Ruy Lopez variations whereas this time it could be very rare . However Carlsen s opening preparation s are expected to be simply to aquire equality with black, as with white pieces he has upper hand of playing many type of openings at its best . He is an expert over 1d4 or 1.e4 or 1. c4 or even 1.Nf3 .
         Magnus Carlsen vs Sergey Karjakin
             World Blitz Championship 2015

Black to play 

Magnus Carlsen played London System with white side and Karjakin crushes his ideas in Blitz game . Karjakin played 1...Re6 after which game ended in favour of black . 

The possible continuation is 2.Nc7 Rc6 ! after which white loses knight and following mate threat by putting the rook at 1st rank !! 

Champion the Challenger !!

The day started with lots of excitement and made us wait till evening to know any decisive results . The thirteenth round of World Chess Championship Candidates 2016 had only one complete point gainer , Hikaru Nakamura of USA . All other games were drawn . 5-times World Champion and the last challenger in World Championship Viswanathan Anand drew with Anish Giri .

Karjakin drew with Aronion and Fabiano Caruana maintain s himself on top spot with a draw against Peter Svidler.

Currently Caruana  and Karjkin have 7.5 points each followed by Vishy Anand with 7 . The next and final round of the tournament is a final in all aspects as the current leaders of tournament Caruana meets Karjakin . However if the game between them is draw and Vishy Anand wins against Peter Svidler then the points will tie for three of them at 8 points . But as according to tie break rule Caruana will be declared as Champion and Anand will become 2nd . Otherwise if any one among them win then it will bring an undisputed Champion of the tournament .

Magnus Carlson waiting for the Challenger

It will a great excitement in World Chess when it will be decided that who will play against GM Magnus Carlsen in the World Chess Championship 2016 .Magnus Carlsen is reigning World Champion and World no.1 in FIDE rating list for very long . For past few years no one from Chess World has really shown up a Challenging tour against Magnus. Currently the World Championship Candidates 2016 is happening in Moscow with the best possible players from World to get the match ticket to play against Magnus Carlsen in World Chess Championship 2016 . Till date 12th round is finished and every round has shown the uprise and downfall almost all the Candidates. Fabiano Caruana USA  and Sergy Karjakin Russia are the table leaders followed by Vishvanathan Anand of INDIA just half a point down . Please keep tuned on this page as there will be a expert discussion after the results of penultimate rounds are finished .