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And it's over! The first game of the FIDE World Chess Championship ends in a DRAW after an intense battle where reigning champ Magnus Carlsen looked to be taking over for a while:

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1 down, up to 13 games to go!

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https://chess24.com/en/watch/live-tournaments/carlsen-nepomniachtchi-world-chess-championship-2021/1/1/1
#c24live #CarlsenNepo

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Nepomniachtchi, Ian vs. Carlsen, Magnus | Carlsen-Nepomniachtchi World Chess Championship 2021

Replay the Carlsen-Nepomniachtchi World Chess Championship Round 1 game played on 26/11/2021 with computer analysis

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Game 1 of #FIDEmatch2021 is in the books after #CarlsenNepo reach a draw!

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The final moments of the first game. #CarlsenNepo

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World Chess Championship 2021|Game 1

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The second game Carlsen v Nepomniachtchi ends in a draw. After two games, the score is 1-1. #CarlsenNepo

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A dramatic game two!

Each player had winning chances, but ultimately we have an exciting draw.

#CarlsenNepo

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World Chess Championship 2021| Game 2

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The final moments of Game 2 of the FIDE World Championship Match.#CarlsenNepo

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The first interview: Carlsen has a smile on his face, but he does use the word "blunder"! Onto the press conference live on https://chess24.com/worldchesschampionship/ #c24live #FIDEMatch2021 #CarlsenNepo

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A glimpse into World Champion Magnus Carlsen's inner circle as he prepped for his #FIDEMatch2021 with Russian challenger Ian Nepomniachtchi
Inside Magnus Carlsen's Spanish training camp | FIDE World Championship 2021

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Game two of the Carlsen vs Nepomniachtchi match is drawn. The overall score is equal — 1:1 https://ruchess.ru/en/news/all/game_two_of_carlsen_vs_nepomniachtchi_match_drawn/

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👏Game 2 is just behind us and what a game it was!!!
Magnus and Ian are playing amazingly with so many ideas, very impressive - and the match is just starting! ❤️
👉Tune in tomorrow for Game 3 starting at 13:00! (CET) 🙂

#CarlsenNepo #FIDEmatch2021

🔗 Judit Polgar (@GMJuditPolgar)

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"Soviet chessplayer Anatoly Karpov, World Junior #Chess Champion (Stockholm, 1969), meets with children from School No. 20 in Tula."
Tula, USSR, September 1969.

🔗 Douglas Griffin (@dgriffinchess)

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"The game of Chess is not merely an idle amusement; several very valuable qualities of the mind are to be acquired and strengthened by it, so as to become habits ready on all occasions, for life is a kind of chess."

🔸 Benjamin Franklin

@UnityChessClub

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GM Ray Keene, OBE, wrote a great article of physicists and chess on his weekly article in "thearticle" - see https://thearticle.com/the-physicists?utm_source=twitter.

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From the RIA Novosti archives, a photo of 22-year-old Anatoly Karpov in post-mortem analysis of his 12th-round game v. Vladimir Tukmakov from the 41st USSR Championship in Moscow, October 1973.
(This is among the games featured in this 2020 blog post: https://dgriffinchess.wordpress.com/2020/10/03/anatoly-karpov-at-the-41st-ussr-ch-moscow-1973/).

🔗 Douglas Griffin (@dgriffinchess)

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