How To Watch The World Chess Championship: Carlsen vs Caruana
It's the biggest chess event of the year as World Champion Magnus Carlsen will try to defend his title against the American challenger Fabiano Caruana.
The 2018 world chess championship will run November 9-28, and you can follow it all on Chess.com.
The tiebreak to decide the world chess champion will start Wednesday, November 28 at 7 a.m. Pacific time (10 a.m. Eastern, 3 p.m. London/GMT. Your local time: ).
A tiebreak match of four rapid games will be played. If the match is still tied after the rapid match, two-game blitz mini-matches will be played. If the score is still tied after five blitz mini-matches, the world championship will be decided by a single armageddon game.
Carlsen will play White and Caruana will play Black in game one of the rapid tiebreak.
The match score is Carlsen 6, Caruana 6 after 12 games.
Chess.com's Computer Chess Championship announced it would pause its regular programming of CCC 3 to play out the position from game 12 where Carlsen and Caruana agreed to a draw. The top chess engines in the world will play bonus games from that position starting at 2 p.m. Pacific time Monday, Nov. 26 and running through the world championship tiebreak.
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Carlsen (rated 2835) and Caruana (2832) are the top two players in the world and are separated by just three rating points as they enter the championship match. It could be the closest and most exciting world championship ever, and Chess.com will bring you comprehensive coverage.
Follow the world chess championship on Chess.com:
- Go to Chess.com/wcc2018 for live moves from London, computer analysis, and live chat.
- Watch live video coverage during every game at Chess.com/TV and Twitch.tv/Chess with chess master commentary featuring IM Daniel Rensch and GM Robert Hess. Special guests, including Hikaru Nakamura, Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, Bruce Pandolfini, John Urschel, Wesley So, Sam Shankland and more will be joining the shows during the match.
- Find out the schedule, the details, and everything you need to know at our main 2018 world chess championship article.
- Read the latest world championship news and analysis from our award-winning journalists and grandmaster annotators at Chess.com/news. The current U.S. chess champion Sam Shankland will provide written, in-depth analysis of each game in our news reports.
- Follow Chess.com on YouTube for analysis and recap videos after each round by GM Alex Yermolinsky.
- Watch detailed premium videos on Chess.com by GM Yasser Seirawan on world championship rest days.
- Like Chess.com on Facebook and follow us on Twitter to get the latest news, photos, rumors and more from the world championship.
- Read a one-of-a-kind match preview by GM Jonathan Tisdall, and get hyped by counting down the 10 most exciting world championships ever with FM Mike Klein.
- Join the Chessbrahs for their unique brand of chess coverage to get a fun perspective on the match. Live commentary and analysis provided by GM Aman Hambleton and GM Eric Hansen.
- Watch rest-day recap live streams with IM John Bartholomew or IM Levy Rozman. Check the ChessTV official schedule for more information.
You can also watch the official premium broadcast of the world chess championship at WorldChess.com.
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