BOTW: 2016.11.30
World Chess Championship (tiebreak)
November 30, 2016
New York City
World Champion Magnus Carlsen continues to defend his title against GM Sergey Karjakin in a 12 game match in New York City at the Fulton Market building in the seaport district of Manhattan, just south of the Brooklyn Bridge.
After 12 games the score is level: +1 =10 -1.
Tie-break Format:
- 4 games at 25 min +10s
- 2 game blitz matches of 5min + 3s. Maximum 5 such blitz matches (10 games).
- Armageddon game: Black has draw odd with White 5 min vs Black 4 min, + 3 sec as of move 61.
Live Commentary (games start at 2pm EST)
The official site charges $7 US for their live feed for the tie-break, which includes commentary by GMs Judit Polgar and Max Dlugy.
Free analysis might be found on chess24.com... but it seems to have crashed at the start of the tie-break.
Official Site
https://worldchess.com/nyc2016/
chess24
https://chess24.com/en/wcc2016
Live Super-Computer Analysis (Stockfish development build running at 30m nodes/sec + Syzygy and Lomonosov TBs)
http://analysis.sesse.net/
UPDATE: Carlsen wins tiebreak: 3-1 (draw, draw, win, win) to retain World Championship title.
TCEC Superfinal
Nov. 9-??, 2016.
32 chess engines have been battling since May, and the top two -- Houdini 5 and Stockfish 8 -- play for the championship.
After 80 games the score is: + 13 = 60 - 7 for Stockfish.
Format:
- 100 games between Houdini 5 and Stockfish 8.
- time control: Game/180 minutes + 15 seconds per move.
- They play both White and Black from 50 standard opening positions chosen by the organizers.
- both programs will run on the same 44-core computer.
Live Games
http://tcec.chessdom.com/live.php