Wednesday 28 November 2018

IM opperwezen is the 2018 Crazyhouse World Champion!

The CWC Final capping off the year-long Crazyhouse World Championship was won by the Challenger! While Carlsen-Caruana saw 12 draws of classical chess between them, opperwezen and JannLee played 60 games of 3+2 spanning 3 weeks with only one draw. At the end of week 1, JannLee led 11-9. opperwezen pulled into the lead on week 2 taking it 12-8, so 2 ahead 21-19 going into week 3. Needing 9½/20 on the final day, he secured a draw to almost guarantee a decisive result and left Jann needing a streak of six to hold his title. Jann won the first two, but in the end the opper proved too strong taking the series 32½-27½ overall. Below are highlights of some of the best games, and we were joined by the man himself for the last forty minutes:


To re-live the action live, you can watch the live streams:

JannLee (without commentary)
Day 1 
Day 2
Day 3

opperwezen: (silent)
Day 1
Day 2
Day 3 

Day 1 Flourish & Antic (live commentary)




Day 2 Flourish & Antic (live commentary)




Day 3 okei, MMichael, Flourish, Fumitoks, and others from the House Discord



Finally, if you missed anything from the 2018 CWC, check out this CWC 2018 playlist of over 90 streams of commentary and analysis. Follow the streamers you like on YouTube. And check out all the recaps of each round posted earlier on this blog with embedded puzzles and annotated games.

—okei

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