Magnus Carlsen spelade ny remi i VM-schacket

The World Chess Championship 2016 is an ongoing chess match between reigning world champion Magnus Carlsen and challenger Sergey Karjakin to determine the World Chess Champion. It is being under the auspices of FIDE, the world chess federation, with the organisation rights belonging to Agon, its commercial partner. The 12-game match is taking place between 11–30 November in the renovated Fulton Market Building (formerly Fulton Fish Market) in the South Street Seaport in New York City, with the two contestants competing for a prize fund of at least 1 million euros (US$1.1m). If the score is tied after 12 games, a four-game rapid chess match will be played, then five two-game matches of blitz chess if necessary, and finally, an Armageddon game will be used to break the tie. (Regulations 3.7). Although the comprehensive effect of the venture is yet to be seen, Agon has proclaimed: "The world chess championship in New York will be the first in any sport to be broadcast in 360-degree virtual reality (VR)." Previous comments about the August 2016 Rio Olympics opening ceremony VR experience were mixed.

Sven Magnus Øen Carlsen, född 30 november 1990 i stadsdelen Husvik i Tønsberg, är en norsk schackspelare. Den 22 november 2013 blev han världsmästare i Chennai i Indien. Med en Elo-rating på 2872 är han den högst rankade spelaren i världen, och även den högst rankade sedan ratingsystemet infördes på 1960-talet då han passerat Garri Kasparovs tidigare rekord på 2851.

Sergey Alexandrovich Karjakin (Russian: Серге́й Алекса́ндрович Каря́кин; Ukrainian: Сергій Олександрович Карякін, Serhiy Oleksandrovych Karjakin; born January 12, 1990) is a Russian (formerly representing Ukraine) chess grandmaster. He is a former chess prodigy and holds the record for the world's youngest Grandmaster, having qualified for this title at the age of 12 years and 7 months. On March 28, 2016, Sergey Karjakin became the Challenger to Magnus Carlsen in the World Chess Championship 2016 after winning the Candidates Tournament 2016 in Moscow. Karjakin won the 2012 World Rapid Chess Championship and the Chess World Cup 2015. He also won the Norway Chess Tournament twice (2013, 2014) and the Corus Chess Tournament in 2009. He has competed in six Chess Olympiads, three times for Ukraine and three times for Russia, winning three gold medals, two silver and a bronze. He won team gold with Russia at the World Team Chess Championship in Antalya in 2013.