2018 World Chess Championship

Held on

• 2018 world chess championship was held from Nov 8 2018 to Nov 28 2018 at The College, Holborn in London,England,UK.

Defending Champion and the Challenger

• 2018 World Chess Championship was held between the reigning world chess champion Magnus Carlsen and Fabiano Caruana.

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Classical portion

1. Fabiano Caruana and Magnus Carlsen played very well against each other that they both scored 6 and ended up with 12 consecutive draws.
2. It was the only time in the world chess championship history,all classical games have been drawn.

* The first classical game between Fabiano Caruana and Magnus Carlsen

*The last classical game between Fabiano Caruana and Magnus Carlsen

Rapid portion

1. Since all the classical games have resulted in draws. They had to play a rapid portion to determine the world chess champion in 2018.
2. Even though everyone thought that maybe these games will all be resulted in draws, Magnus Carlsen convincingly retained his world chess champion title by beating Fabiano Caruana 3-0 in the rapid match in the rapid portion tiebreak.

3.The first rapid tiebreaker.

The second rapid tiebreaker.

The third rapid tiebreaker.