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SPECIAL
Magnus Carlsen
and
Sergey Karjakin
annotate
key encounters
Interview Sergey Karjakin:
‘I always wanted to become
World Champion’
Carlsen -
Karjakin
New York, November 2016
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EDITORIAL
Why not?
atches for the World Championship
fascinate us more than any other chess
event. They are the milestones in the
history of our game and create drama
that we still talk about many years later. On the eve
of the match in New York the prevailing mood is that
Magnus Carlsen is the odds-on favourite. He is the
better player and his score against Sergey Karjakin is
further testimony to his dominance.
But there are no dead certainties when the highest
title is at stake. Matches tend to bring out the best
in the Challenger, as they are unique opportunities.
Before his match against Kasparov in London in 2000,
Vladimir Kramnik told me that he happily would
play for free (which was not really necessary) and I
vividly remember how I looked at him in amazement
as we had lunch in a London gentlemen’s club. After
months of physical training he looked sharp as a
knife and determined to execute his strategy that was
borrowed from the Czech national ice-hockey team:
keep your opponent from scoring and mercilessly
exploit your own chances. As we all know, Kramnik
let Kasparov hit his head against the Berlin Wall and
took the title with two powerful counterpunches.
Sergey Karjakin seems to be perfectly at ease in his
new role. He won both the Baku World Cup and
the Candidates Tournament in Moscow and now he
has nothing to lose. The Challenger knows himself
surrounded by an experienced team led by Yury
Dokhoian and gets all the support he can dream of
from the Russian Chess Federation. Apparently the
budget for his preparation is one million euros. His
final training camp he had in Florida, from where he
tweeted a photo alongside Shakhriyar Mamedyarov,
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one of the friends he can rely on. When he is asked if
he believes he has a chance against Carlsen, Karjakin’s
answer is simple: ‘Why not?’
Of course, the World Champion also has a team
working for him and no doubt his training camp in
the Caribbean was everything he could have hoped
for. But then again, he has had luxurious training
camps before and he may find it tougher to muster all
the motivation required to defeat an opponent he is
supposed to beat.
Or will the Norwegian have no such worries and
simply continue to play great chess, just as he has
done for most of 2016? Well, why not?
We hope this digital special will get you in the
mood for the clash in New York. There is a lot to
enjoy. Both Carlsen and Karjakin have been regular
contributors to New In Chess for many years. Using
the interactive chessviewer you can play through
games that they have annotated for our pages.
Or games as they appeared in New In Chess with
comments by experts such as Carlsen’s first trainer
Simen Agdestein and Loek van Wely. In a preview,
exclusively written for this edition, Jan Timman
gives his take on the match. And there is a revealing
interview with Karjakin on his rivalry with Carlsen
illustrated with fantastic photos.
All great stuff that will give you a taste of New
In Chess. And if you’re not a subscriber yet, you
are more than welcome to join readers from 116
countries around the world.
Dirk Jan ten Geuzendam
Editor-in-Chief
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INTERVIEW
‘My dream
has always
been
to become
World
Champion’
The fight for the World Championship has been on his
mind ever since he became the youngest grandmaster in
history at the age of 12 years and 7 months. With his win
at the Candidates’ tournament in Moscow, 26-year-old
Sergey Karjakin (finally!) obtained the right to play for the
world title. An apt moment,
DIRK JAN TEN GEUZENDAM
thought, to show the Challenger some photos
and take a stroll down memory lane.
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