One misplaced pawn may have just clinched the World Chess Championship. Via FiveThirtyEight:
. Eager knights jousted on a narrow tiltyard, quickly knocking each other out of play. After eight moves, the position was perfectly symmetrical, with a parade of pieces strung up the board., historically leading to five wins for white and six draws, though it had only been played before by amateurs.
When Nepomniachtchi did appear in his chair, he moved quickly. On his 21st move, he moved his pawn forward to the b5 square, as shown below, pressuring Carlsen’s bishop and likely handing Carlsen the world championship., with so many moves earning the annotator’s exclamation point, this was roundly given a question mark or two. It blunders away a pawn: Carlsen moves his queen to a3, putting Nepomniachtchi in check.
With six games remaining, the path to victory now for Nepomniachtchi is very narrow and very steep. Themodel gives Carlsen a 98.5 percent chance to retain his title and cement his status as the greatest of all time. The match rests tomorrow, and Game 9 begins Tuesday at 7:30 a.m. Eastern. We’ll be covering it here and
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