Magnus Carlsen, the Norwegian world champion, can contest the title of greatest of all time with the legendary Bobby Fischer and Garry Kasparov in the wake of his Grenke win. Magnus Carlsen defeated Fabiano Caruana in game three of the rapid playoff to clinch the 2018 world chess championship. After 12 draws in the classical games, Carlsen won all the games of the tiebreak to win 3.0-0.0. He has now successfully defended his title for the third time. In the third and final 0. #1. Who will win? Garry Kasporov or Magnus Carlsen. if they play a match against each other at their prime time. GM JMB2010. Aug 18, 2013. 0. #2. Carlsen is one of the greatest players to ever grace the sport. At just 32 years of age, the Norwegian grandmaster has been crowned world champion five times, achieved the highest ELO rating of It is only a year since Carlsen admitted to being “deeply ashamed” by his heavy defeat by Wesley So in the first World Random Championship final in Oslo, while Kasparov was crushed 5-1 by . After the aborted first match, Kasparov won in 1985 and then a rematch in 1986. In 1987, he narrowly saved his title by drawing the match, winning "to order" in the very last game. Finally, he had a short break, but in 1990 Karpov was back, and Kasparov again won by a narrow margin, 12.5 to 11.5. Though Kasparov would win the overall match by a score of 4-2, it was a notable event because Deep Blue became the first computer to ever successfully win a chess game within a match while facing off against a reigning chess world champion and a respected Chess Grandmaster in the form of Garry Kasparov. Garry Kasparov vs Deep Blue 2nd Match 1997 Follow the game from round 02 between Kasparov Garry and Carlsen Magnus from the on Chess.com with live analysis, engine evaluation The round ended with the champion victorious as Magnus Carlsen made sure of Bobby Fischer at Mar del Plata 1960 or Garry Kasparov at Baku 1980, although not at the same level as Carlsen at Kasparov vs. Carlsen. When Kasparov ended his competitive chess career in March 2005, he was still the top-rated player in the world, as he had been for a whopping 20 years. His retirement was followed by a five-year period of GMs Viswanathan Anand, Vladimir Kramnik, and Veselin Topalov trading the number-one spot. That ended when Carlsen took

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