The best-of-12-games match began on Friday, with each contestant awarded one point for a win and a half-point for a draw. So far Carlsen and Karjakin have drawn all four games they’ve played and enter Thursday’s fifth meeting deadlocked at 2-all. Any expectations of the political intrigue and paranoia associated with the sport’s golden age were not disappointed. At one point Carlsen fielded a question over the rumors that he’d enlisted Microsoft for cybersecurity consultation over concerns Karjakin’s team were trying to hack his preparations. Karjakin played the far more familiar Ruy Lopez in Saturday’s second game, prompting a Morphy Defense from Carlsen.

Source: The Guardian November 17, 2016 18:56 UTC