Magnus Carlsen vs. The World: The Chess Mega-Showddown

One chess Grandmaster against the world. Who do you bet?

Chess.comThe site in which the registry identification match occurred, He had predicted Grandmaster Grandmaster Magnus Carlesen will appear victorious with a large margin in a huge match against more than 143,000 players.

But on Monday, after a 46 -day free match – described as “Magnus Carlsen against the world” – was forced to draw when his team examined its ownership for the third time.

The largest chess match on the Internet in history

The Team World team managed to lead Carlsen in a draw in 32 movements by carrying out “three times the repetition” – which leads to a tie when reaching the situation three times. In this case, it was paid after the Team World team examined the King Carlsen three times in the corner of the assembly.

Anyone in the world can subscribe to play as part of Team World on Chess.com. The team members voted on each step, and each side had 24 hours to play.

“In general,” the world “played a very sound chess from the beginning. It may not go in most of the adventure options, but a kind of keeping it more in the vein with regular chess – it is not always the best strategy, but it has succeeded well this time.

The match, which started on April 4, was the largest free chess game online in history, which includes a world champion of the Carlson.

Free chess is played with the king, the queen, the knights, the rocks and the bishops in mixing sites, while the pawns remain in their usual places on the blackboard.

Karlsen, 34, was the world’s highest chess player in nearly 14 years. In April 2004, when he was 13 years old, It became the youngest master in the world at that time. Mega-Match has also been distinguished by the first time that Karlson has played against the general public.

“The maximum resistance” against Carlsen

Watch Mike Ivanov, co -founder and lead coach of Canada Youth Club in Richmond Hill, Oanton, the game is revealed on the Chis site. Carlson fans, Ivanov is also one of the many coaches on the site, some of whom participated in the match by helping the international players in the game’s comments section.

He said in an interview with CBC News: “Usually, when you play Carlsen, it looks like a train and hopes that it does not reach this matter.”

While Ivanov did not participate in the game, he said that his coach fellow was trying to put a “maximum resistance” against Carlson and did not expect the result to be a draw.

“Over time, Magnus’s feature had disappeared,” he said. “He played some questionable moves, let’s say, and this allowed the world to accurately equal in the game and draw at the end of the game.”

Ivanov said it was “very exciting” to see the match playing in an actual time as players from all over the world were involved in group discussions as they decided their following moves.

“Usually, chess game is a quiet game, and here nothing was calm,” he said.