Chess World Cup Finals: Praggnanandhaa Vs Carlsen Will Be Decided By a Tie Breaker; Here’s The Procedure

The Chess World Cup 2023 final between Indian teen prodigy R Praggnanandhaa and Magnus Carlsen has been forced into a tie-breaker. It will be played on Thursday. After two games, first a 35-move draw on Tuesday, followed by another 30-move draw in Game 2 on Wednesday. The tie-breaker will be played in a shorter format even though Games 1 and 2 were both played in the traditional format.

Tie Breaker will go like this

The quick and blitz formats will be used for the tie-breakers. The fast format, which consists of a set of two games, will be the first one. Beginning with move 1, each player will have a time limit of 25 minutes and get an increment of 10 seconds for each subsequent move.

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What if that doesn’t give us the winner of Chess World Cup

If it doesn’t produce a winner, the players will then play two further games with a 10-minute time limit for each participant. But starting with move 1, the players will continue to get a 10-second increase for each move.

But if that also fails to produce a champion, two additional games will be played with a shorter time limit of 5 minutes for each player. Starting with move 1, a player will only be able to see an increment of 3 seconds for each move in this round.

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The Blitz game in Chess World Cup

The blitz portion of the tiebreak, which is similarly to sudden death, will be used if the match is still evenly matched. The previous rounds were played in a set of two games, but this round’s rules provide for only one game to be played, with a time limit of three minutes plus a two-second increment for each move beginning with the first. We won’t stop doing this until we have a winner.

The Chess prodigy of India

The world No. 2 Hikaru Nakamura and the world No. 3 Fabiano Caruana were already defeated by Praggnanandhaa before he became the second Indian, after Viswanathan Anand, to go to the Chess World Cup finals. Anand has previously won the 2000 and 2002 World Cups.