Chess with Sam Collins

World Championship Playoff, 2016

Magnus Carlsen recently retained his world title in New York. The match was tied after 12 classical games, but Carlsen prevailed 3-1 in the rapid playoff.

This week, I have covered the final rapid game, which Karjakin had to win with Black in order to stay in the match.

This explains a number of the decisions taken over the following moves (in particular at moves 26 and 42), since ...