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Chessable Masters Final · chess24.com INT · 27 June 2020

Fabiano Caruana vs Magnus Carlsen, Chessable Masters Final, R1.21

Caruana, Fabiano ½–½ Carlsen, Magnus
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Chessable Masters Final, 27 June 2020

Game 1.21 of the 2020 Chessable Masters Final (June 27) was a draw between Caruana and Carlsen. The match score was tilting toward Carlsen at this stage but Caruana managed to hold the position to a balanced ending.

The opening was a Catalan, with Caruana as White attempting to recover ground in the match. Carlsen’s Black setup was solid; the middlegame produced no winning chances for White; the endgame was balanced. The draw was accepted in roughly 35 moves.

The Chessable Masters Final was the penultimate event of the Magnus Carlsen Tour 2020. The cumulative tour — which spanned April through August 2020 — had produced Carlsen as winner of nearly every event. The Tour finalised in August 2020 with Carlsen as overall champion and an aggregate prize pool of approximately $1.5 million across all events.

Caruana’s runner-up status at the Chessable Masters Final fit the broader pattern of pandemic-era online chess. He was a regular finalist; he won occasional individual games; he could not break Carlsen’s overall dominance in the online format. By the time in-person chess resumed in 2021, the head-to-head record from the online period was heavily Carlsen’s, though their classical-format score remained much closer.

Game record

This game between Caruana, Fabiano and Carlsen, Magnus was played at the Chessable Masters Final in chess24.com INT in 2020. Played in round 1.21. At the time of the game, the players were rated 2835 (White) and 2863 (Black). The game lasted 54 moves, ending with a drawn outcome. It is part of the modern AI-era of elite chess.

Opening context

The opening sequence runs 1. d4 Nf6 2. c4 e6 3. Nc3 Bb4 4. e3 O-O, after which the players entered the middlegame proper.

See also

For more on this game’s protagonists and theory, see Caruana, Fabiano and Carlsen, Magnus.