Challenger rues missed opportunity to push home his positionHalf-point agreed after 3hr 50min, leaving match at 2½-2½Norway’s Magnus Carlsen and the
Russian Ian Nepomniachtchi are no closer to a verdict in their €2m world championship match after playing to a fifth successive draw on Wednesday at the Dubai Exposition Centre.
Supercomputers evaluating the moves from the opening four games had indicated it was the most accurate world title match in the event’s history and this fifth contest maintained that standard as the players remarkably combined for one inaccuracy between them. Regrettably for the 31-year-old challenger, the lapse was the opportunity Carlsen needed to escape from a highly uncomfortable position as black and negotiate a draw after 43 moves.