In preparation for important tournaments like the world championship match, Grandmasters almost always hire a team of ‘seconds’ (other grandmasters) to assist them in preparation. Nevertheless, World Champion Magnus Carlsen has dominated chess for the last 5 years and is rightfully in position to defend his world championship. They are now led by Top 10 players Caruana, So and Nakamura. Just two months ago, the United States men’s team won the 42nd Chess Olympiad for the first time in 40 years. Since then, chess’ popularity in the United States has slowly increased, as has the strength of its players. The unified championship will return to New York and American soil for the first time since 1990, when two chess legends, Kasparov and Karpov, met for the last time in a world chess championship match. On November 11th, Norway’s Magnus Carlsen will defend his chess world championship against Sergey Karjakin of Russia.
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