Published: December 04, 2021
- Players agree quiet 41-move draw after Friday marathon
- Carlsen leads 4-3 at midpoint of best-of-14 title showdown
Magnus Carlsen played to a quiet 41-move draw with Ian Nepomniachtchi on Saturday in the seventh game of their world championship match in Dubai, only hours after the Norwegian champion dramatically took control of their deadlocked best-of-14-games showdown with a marathon game-six win that ended after midnight.
Nepomniachtchi, marshaling the white pieces, played 1 e4 before the pair blitzed out their opening moves into the same anti-Marshall line of the Ruy Lopez that had featured in each of the Russian’s three previous games as white (1 ... e5 2 Nf3 Nc6 3 Bb5 a6 4 Ba4 Nf6 5 O-O Be7 6 Re1 b5 7 Bb3).
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