The second recreation of the Chess World Cupultimate led to a draw after 30 strikes on Wednesday. After one and a half hours of play, the 2 gamers opted for a quiet draw within the second classical recreation.The winner shall be decided by two tie-breaks on Thursday.
“Praggnanandhaa has already performed a number of tie-breaks in opposition to very robust gamers… I do know he’s very robust. If I’ve some vitality, if I’ve an excellent day, clearly I’ll have good possibilities,” Carlsen mentioned after Recreation 2.
Carlsen, who had some form of meals poisoning through the match, mentioned that he’s feeling higher and added that he can have extra energy for the tie-break.
“I’m very grateful to the organisers, FIDE and the medical doctors and nurses, who received me some good therapy. Right this moment, I’m feeling a bit higher however I nonetheless did not really feel like I had the vitality for a full struggle, so I assumed, let’s get yet one more day of relaxation. Hopefully, I’ll have extra energy tomorrow,” the Norwegian world No.1 added.
On Wednesday, Carlsen, the five-time world champion, produced an excellent recreation with white items in opposition to Praggnanandhaa. The Indian had no issues with the black items, and the gamers agreed to a draw after 30 strikes in an equal Bishop conclusion.
The 2 tie-break video games in fast format on Thursday shall be performed with a time management of 25 minutes for every participant plus 10 seconds increment per transfer, ranging from transfer 1.
If these two video games additionally fail to throw a winner, two extra video games with time management of 5 minutes for every participant shall be performed. There shall be a three seconds increment per transfer, ranging from transfer 1.
Praggnanandhaa is barely the second Indian after the legendary Viswanathan Anand to succeed in the World Cup ultimate.
Posting on social media platform X (previously Twitter) through the recreation, former world champion Anand wrote, “Wow, didn’t count on this opening! Is Magnus repeating his recreation 12 technique of 2016 and aiming for a tiebreak?”
“In that case, Magnus has spent the day pondering of the tiebreak while Prag can solely begin to take action after the sport.”
