The FIDE World Chess Championships starts on Friday 26th November in Dubai and will run over 14 rounds from 26th November until Thursday 16th December. The championship will be played between the reigning World Champion, Magnus Carlsen and GM Ian Nepomniachtchi, who won the Candidates tournament earlier in 2021.
Magnus Carlsen (left) by Lennart Ootes and Ian Nepomniachtchi (right) by Niki Riga
You can watch the match on any of the sites listed below; we will update the list with additional streams as these are established —
https://www.chess.com/article/view/world-chess-championship-2021
https://lichess.org/broadcast/world-chess-championship-2021/game-1/olFFWcs6
https://kasparovchess.com/articles/126 – Kasparov Chess with post game video analysis by GM Matthew Sadler and 13th World Champion GM Gary Kasparov
For more background —
Magnus Carlsen in the Guardian newspaper | Chess.com’s predictions | Biography of Magnus Carlsen | Biography of Ian Nepomniachtchi | Leonard Barden in the Guardian
You can find a fuller preview of the match and the two players from GM Peter Wells here (as published in last month’s ChessMoves) – https://www.englishchess.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/Chess-Moves-November-2021-Wells-2C.pdf
The playing schedule will be as follows —
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| Wednesday 24 November | Opening ceremony |
| Thursday 25 November | Media day |
| Friday 26 November 12:30pm GMT | Game 1 |
| Saturday 27 November 12:30pm GMT | Game 2 |
| Sunday 28 November 12:30pm GMT | Game 3 |
| Monday 29 November | Rest day |
| Tuesday 30 November 12:30pm GMT | Game 4 |
| Wednesday 1 December 12:30pm GMT | Game 5 |
| Thursday 2 December | Rest day |
| Friday 3 December 12:30pm GMT | Game 6 |
| Saturday 4 December 12:30pm GMT | Game 7 |
| Sunday 5 December 12:30pm GMT | Game 8 |
| Monday 6 December | Rest day |
| Tuesday 7 December 12:30pm GMT | Game 9 |
| Wednesday 8 December 12:30pm GMT | Game 10 |
| Thursday 9 December | Rest day |
| Friday 10 December 12:30pm GMT | Game 11 |
| Saturday 11 December 12:30pm GMT | Game 12 |
| Sunday 12 December 12:30pm GMT | Game 13 |
| Monday 13 December | Rest day |
| Tuesday 14 December 12:30pm GMT | Game 14 |
| Wednesday 15 December | Tie-break or closing ceremony |
| Thursday 16 December | Closing ceremony in case of a tie-break |