World Chess Championship 2018

The College, Holborn, London, UK
9–28 November 2018
	Defending champion	Challenger
	Magnus Carlsen	Fabiano Caruana
	6 (3) Scores 6 (0) Game 1 ½ 115 move draw ½ Game 2 ½ 49 move draw ½ Game 3 ½ 49 move draw ½ Game 4 ½ 34 move draw ½ Game 5 ½ 34 move draw ½ Game 6 ½ 80 move draw ½ Game 7 ½ 40 move draw ½ Game 8 ½ 38 move draw ½ Game 9 ½ 56 move draw ½ Game 10 ½ 54 move draw ½ Game 11 ½ 55 move draw ½ Game 12 ½ 31 move draw ½ Tie break 13 1 ← 55 moves 0 Tie break 14 1 ← 28 moves 0 Tie break 15 1 ← 51 moves 0
	Born 30 November 1990 27 years old	Born 30 July 1992 26 years old
	Winner of the World Chess Championship 2016	Winner of the Candidates Tournament 2018
	Rating: 2835 (World No. 1)	Rating: 2832 (World No. 2)
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The World Chess Championship 2018 was a match between the reigning world champion since 2013, Magnus Carlsen, and the challenger Fabiano Caruana to determine the World Chess Champion. The 12-game match, organised by FIDE and its commercial partner Agon, was played at The College in Holborn, London, between 9 and 28 November 2018.^[1][2] The games were broadcast on worldchess.com and by NRK.

The classical time-control portion of the match ended with 12 consecutive draws, the only time in the history of the world chess championship that all classical games have been drawn.^[3] On 28 November, rapid chess was used as a tie-breaker; Carlsen won three consecutive games to retain his title and became four-time world champion.

Candidates Tournament

Caruana qualified as challenger by winning the 2018 Candidates Tournament. This was an eight-player, double round-robin tournament played in Berlin on 10–28 March 2018.^[4]

Qualified players

Players qualified for the Candidates Tournament as follows (age, rating and world ranking are as of March 2018, when the tournament was held):^[5][6]

Player	Age	Rating [7]	Rank	Qualification path
Sergey Karjakin	28	2763	13	The runner-up of the 2016 World Championship match.
Levon Aronian	35	2794	5	The top two finishers in the Chess World Cup 2017 who did not qualify from the 2016 match.
Ding Liren	25	2769	11
Shakhriyar Mamedyarov	32	2809	2	The top two finishers in the FIDE Grand Prix 2017 who did not qualify through the World Cup.
Alexander Grischuk	34	2767	12
Fabiano Caruana	25	2784	7	The top two players with the highest rating (by the average of all 12 lists in 2017), who did not qualify via one of the above qualification routes, and who have played in either the World Cup or Grand Prix.
Wesley So	24	2799	4
Vladimir Kramnik	42	2800	3	Wild card nomination of the organizers (Agon). Must be rated at least 2725 in any FIDE published rating list in 2017.

Results

Final standings of the 2018 Candidates Tournament

Rank	Player v t e	Score	H2H	Wins	Qualification		CAR		MAM		KAR		DIN		KRA		GRI		SO		ARO
1	Fabiano Caruana (USA)	9	—	5	Advance to title match				½	½	½	0	½	½	½	1	½	1	1	½	1	1
2	Shakhriyar Mamedyarov (AZE)	8	1.5	3			½	½			½	1	0	½	1	½	1	½	½	½	½	½
3	Sergey Karjakin (RUS)	8	0.5	4			1	½	0	½			½	½	1	½	½	½	1	½	0	1
4	Ding Liren (CHN)	7.5	—	1			½	½	½	1	½	½			½	½	½	½	½	½	½	½
5	Vladimir Kramnik (RUS)	6.5	1	3			0	½	½	0	½	0	½	½			1	0	½	½	1	1
6	Alexander Grischuk (RUS)	6.5	1	2			0	½	½	0	½	½	½	½	1	0			1	½	½	½
7	Wesley So (USA)	6	—	1			½	0	½	½	½	0	½	½	½	½	½	0			1	½
8	Levon Aronian (ARM)	4.5	—	1			0	0	½	½	0	1	½	½	0	0	½	½	½	0

Note: Numbers in the crosstable in a white background indicate the result playing the respective opponent with the white pieces (black pieces if on a black background).

Championship match

The Championship match between Magnus Carlsen and Fabiano Caruana was held from 9 to 28 November 2018 in London, United Kingdom, at the Cochrane Theatre of The College in Holborn.

Match regulations

The match was organised in a best-of-12-games format. The time control for the games was 100 minutes for the first 40 moves, an additional 50 minutes added after the 40th move, and then an additional 15 minutes added after the 60th move, plus an additional 30 seconds per move starting from move 1. Players were not permitted to agree to a draw before Black's 30th move.^[8][9]

The tie-breaking method consisted of the following schedule of faster games played on the final day in the following order, as necessary:

• Best-of-four rapid games (25 minutes for each player with an increment of 10 seconds after each move). The player with the best score after four rapid games is the winner. The players are not required to record the moves. In the match, Carlsen immediately won three games in a row, securing the championship.
• If the rapid games had been tied 2–2, up to five mini-matches of best-of-two blitz games (5 minutes plus 3 seconds increment after each move) would have been played. The player with the best score in any two-game blitz match would be the winner.
• If the blitz matches had failed to produce a winner, one sudden death "Armageddon" game: White receives 5 minutes and Black receives 4 minutes. Both players receive an increment of 3 seconds starting from move 61. The player who wins the drawing of lots may choose the colour. In case of a draw, the player with the black pieces is declared the winner.^[8]

Prize fund

The prize fund was 1 million euros net of all applicable taxes. Had the match been decided in the classical portion it would have been divided 60% vs 40% between winner and loser. As the match went to a tiebreak the split was more even at 55% vs 45%.^[5][10]

Previous head-to-head record

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