Magnus Carlsen Beats Fabiano Caruana to Win World Chess Championship
In the end, Carlsen is the man who knows the best how to win in chess. Regardless of all critics.<p>He played the 12th game safe knowing he&#x27;s a huge favourite in rapid and blitz. Like Kasparov and Grischuk pointed out today, every other chess player gets worse playing rapid&#x2F;blitz but Carlsen is the only one who actually improves.<p>Under these conditions it&#x27;s more than sensible to move into the terrain where you have an advantage, if thinking strategically.<p>I would argue the problem is that most of the fans have become conditioned to expect entertainment, drama and bold moves in sports like we see in overly dramatic movies.<p>But historically, if you consider generals or even have a look into Sun Tzu&#x27;s art of war, the strategists and generals that were most regarded were the ones who were able to win in a manner that it seemed easy, unimpressive, without drama or heavy losses or huge risks involved.<p>That&#x27;s what a great strategy is about taking battle where the outcome is decided beforehand. And that&#x27;s what Carlsen did.<p>The downside is it cost him €50k as the money distribution goes to 550&#x2F;450 in tiebreak from 600&#x2F;400 if decided in classical.<p>So he exchanged a potential loss of €200k at a favourable odds for a sure loss of €50k with potential loss of €150k at a much better odds. Now here&#x27;s where we could question his decision speculating what the actual odds were, but who knows if he cares about the money.<p>I enjoyed this final a lot.