Well, fate has pronounced its sentence: Magnus Carlsen and Fabiano Caruana will play each other in the first round of the 5th GRENKE Chess Classic in Karlsruhe on March 31, 2018. Then, probably, they’ll no longer meet until next November (with only one major exception: the 6th Altibox Norway Chess in Stavanger). So, the day after tomorrow, they’ll do their best to monopolise attention and eclipse all other games – namely, Matthias Blübaum vs. Nikita Kirillovich Vitiugov, Georg Meier vs. Levon Grigori Aronian, Arkadij Naiditsch vs. Maxime Vachier-Lagrave, and Viswanathan Anand vs. 侯逸凡 (Hóu Yìfán). But... will they succeed in their egotistic goal?
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Fabiano Caruana on stage for the drawing of lots. Photo: GRENKEChess 2018 (@GRENKEChess).
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