Brilliant game by MAgnus after the opening. watch some replay analysis it was stunning
monster crushing attacking. Fabi just resigned again.
2-0 Magnus
2 more to go...start the buses...
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Image copyrightGETTY IMAGES<figcaption class="media-caption" style="border: 0px; color: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-family: inherit; font-weight: inherit; letter-spacing: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; visibility: visible;">Image captionThis is Magnus Carlsen's fourth championship win</figcaption></figure>World number one Norwegian Magnus Carlsen has retained his World Chess Championship title, beating US opponent Fabiano Caruana in a tie-breaker event.
He beat Caruana in three time-limited games, ending the American's hopes of becoming the first US champion since Bobby Fischer won in 1972.
This showdown followed a record-breaking streak of 12 drawn games of regular chess.
Carlsen told Norway's NRK TV that the encounter had been "hard".
"Caruana is clearly the toughest opponent I have faced," he said.
Caruna however said he had had a "bad day".
"I didn't even put up a fight," he said.
Carlsen, who has won the championship three times before and was the favourite to win the game, took a two-match lead and needed only a draw in the third tie-breaker to seal his victory.
But Caruana resigned in the third as it became increasingly clear the Norwegian would win.
Players needed to win the best of four of these shortened games to take the title.
He beat Caruana in three time-limited games, ending the American's hopes of becoming the first US champion since Bobby Fischer won in 1972.
This showdown followed a record-breaking streak of 12 drawn games of regular chess.
Carlsen told Norway's NRK TV that the encounter had been "hard".
"Caruana is clearly the toughest opponent I have faced," he said.
Caruna however said he had had a "bad day".
"I didn't even put up a fight," he said.
Carlsen, who has won the championship three times before and was the favourite to win the game, took a two-match lead and needed only a draw in the third tie-breaker to seal his victory.
But Caruana resigned in the third as it became increasingly clear the Norwegian would win.
Players needed to win the best of four of these shortened games to take the title.
Opponent accused of using vibrating anal beads to cheat against Magnus
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