The FIDE World Chess Championship match between the defending champion, Viswanathan (Vishy) Anand, and his challenger, Magnus Carlsen took place in November 2013 in Chennai, India.
I have carefully annotated all of the games of the match, usually move by move, to make it easier for relative beginners to come away with a sense of how the world's best players compete. I have included the game scores from the players' previous games in these lines as a reference. Where relevant, I have included the key games on which the players may been relying. I have also included many complex variations and explanations for masters, with coverage of all of the main ideas and all of the variations that I believe are important.
Many readers will be drawn to Carlsen's three wins in the match and indeed, those are interesting games. But the draws, especially in Games 2, 3, 4, and 10 have much to offer.
Like all Chess is Fun e-books, this contains diagrams on almost every page to make it possible to play through the games without the use of a board.
Jon Edwards won the 10th United States Correspondence Championship in 1997 and the 8th North American Invitational Correspondence Chess Championship in 1999. He is a four time winner of the APCT (American Postal Chess Tournaments) Championship and a two time winner of the APCT Game of the Year Award. He received his correspondence International Master (IM) in 1997, his Senior International Master (SIM) in 1999. He has competed on the United States Correspondence Chess Olympiad team, reaching the final round. His correspondence ICCF rating of 2580 places him in the top 200 correspondence chess players worldwide.
I have carefully annotated all of the games of the match, usually move by move, to make it easier for relative beginners to come away with a sense of how the world's best players compete. I have included the game scores from the players' previous games in these lines as a reference. Where relevant, I have included the key games on which the players may been relying. I have also included many complex variations and explanations for masters, with coverage of all of the main ideas and all of the variations that I believe are important.
Many readers will be drawn to Carlsen's three wins in the match and indeed, those are interesting games. But the draws, especially in Games 2, 3, 4, and 10 have much to offer.
Like all Chess is Fun e-books, this contains diagrams on almost every page to make it possible to play through the games without the use of a board.
Jon Edwards won the 10th United States Correspondence Championship in 1997 and the 8th North American Invitational Correspondence Chess Championship in 1999. He is a four time winner of the APCT (American Postal Chess Tournaments) Championship and a two time winner of the APCT Game of the Year Award. He received his correspondence International Master (IM) in 1997, his Senior International Master (SIM) in 1999. He has competed on the United States Correspondence Chess Olympiad team, reaching the final round. His correspondence ICCF rating of 2580 places him in the top 200 correspondence chess players worldwide.
