BREAKING: Carlsen Wins Game 6, Longest World Chess Championship Game Of All Time
Nepomniachtchi resigns game six vs. Magnus Carlsen.
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BREAKING: Carlsen Wins Game 6, Longest World Chess Championship Game Of All Time
By Peter Doggers
Updated: Dec 3, 2021, 3:27 PM
Chess.com News
GM Magnus Carlsen defeated GM Ian Nepomniachtchi in a record 136 moves in game six to score the first win of the 2021 FIDE World Chess Championship. The world champion’s victory came after five draws in the championship that has a €2 million prize fund. Game seven is scheduled for Saturday at 16:30 Dubai time (13:30 CET, 4:30 a.m. Pacific).
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Carlsen had to wait five years and nine days to win a classical world championship game. It took him two days to win this one.
For game six, the players spent a staggering seven hours and 47 minutes at the board and finished 17 minutes past midnight in Dubai. The game started on Friday and ended on Saturday—something that hadn’t happened since adjournments were abolished in the mid-1990s.
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