The renown that riches or beauty confer is fleeting and frail; mental excellence is a splendid and lasting possession. – Sallust (86-34 BC)
By this time, the chess world of approximately 200 countries would have heard that Norway’s Magnus Carlsen has retained his World Chess Championship title. Carlsen was mentally prepared for the Classical, Rapid and Blitz formats of the game. When the 12-game classical encounter was drawn (6-6), he succeeded handsomely in the Rapids where the time is shortened and one has to play more quickly.
Viswanathan Anand of India, a five-time world chess champion, discussed the Carlsen-Fabiano Caruana 2018 World Title Match during an interview recently with international journalist and titled chess player Sagar Shah.
Anand recapped some intricate positions of the match and today I will present one such position with diagram. As an aside, Shah had interviewed the 2018 Guyana Chess team at the Olympiad in September in Georgia.
