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With the Chess World Cup final undecided after two games in the Classical format, R Praggnanandhaa and Magnus Carlsen will now face off in a tie-breaker featuring shorter format contests on Thursday.
Here’s how the tie breaker works:
Two tie-break games shall be played in the rapid format with time control of 25 minutes for each player. Each player will get a 10 seconds increment per move, starting from move 1.
If that does not provide a winner, the players will play two more games with a time control of 10 minutes for each player. Each player will get a 10 seconds increment per move, starting from move 1.
You can follow our liveblog for the Praggnanandhaa vs Magnus Carlsen FIDE World Cup final here
If that also does not get a result, there will be two more games with time control of 5 minutes for each player + 3 seconds increment per move, starting from move 1.
INTERACTIVE: You can follow the move-by-move action from Wednesday’s second game in the final between Praggnanandhaa and Magnus Carlsen below and also click on the notations at the right of the board to retrace the way the game developed:
If the two players are still tied, the blitz portion of the tiebreak will start. This is the equivalent of sudden death. Previously two games made a set but in the blitz portion, players will play one game with a time control of 3 minutes and a 2-second increment per move, starting from move 1. This format shall be repeated until there’s a winner.
