The World Chess Championship 2021 was a chess match between the reigning world champion Magnus Carlsen and the challenger Ian Nepomniachtchi to determine the World Chess Champion. It was held under the auspices of FIDE and played during Expo 2020 at Dubai Exhibition Centre in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, between 24 November and 12 December 2021. It was originally scheduled for the latter half of 2020, but was postponed until 2021 because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Carlsen retained his title, winning four
games, drawing seven and losing none. After a series of five draws to open the
match, Carlsen
won a draining 8-hour struggle in Game 6; with 136 moves it was the longest ever
game in a World Chess Championship. After
a quiet draw in Game 7, Carlsen won three of the last four games, two with the
black pieces, to beat his opponent with three games to spare.
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