Berlin Candidates - Wrapup

During a World Championship event, like the recent 2018 Candidates Tournament, I generate so many posts that it's useful to summarize them when I'm done. First, here are posts from this blog:-

• 2018-01-24: 2018 Candidates Schedule
• 2018-02-21: Berlin Candidates - Kickoff
• 2018-03-07: Berlin Candidates - Resources
• 2018-03-14: Berlin Candidates - First Week
• 2018-03-21: Berlin Candidates - Second Week
• 2018-03-28: Berlin Candidates - Third Week
• 2018-04-11: Berlin Candidates - My Resources
• 2018-04-18: Berlin Candidates - Last Updates

And here are posts from my main blog:-

• 2018-03-13: Berlin Candidates - Venue
• 2018-03-15: Berlin Candidates - Organizer
• 2018-03-16: Game and Mistake of the Day; Kramnik - Caruana, Round 4 (*)
• 2018-03-18: The Capablanca Cocktail; 'a visit to the chess bar' (*)
• 2018-03-19: Interview Videos : World Champion Carlsen; last in series of 'Interview Videos' (incl. summary; *)
• 2018-03-20: Berlin Candidates - Broadcasting
• 2018-03-22: Berlin Candidates - Broadcasters
• 2018-03-26: Two Championship Qualifying Events; situation and pairings for the last two rounds
• 2018-03-27: Berlin Candidates - Tiebreaks
• 2018-03-29: March Yahoos; 'Caruana Wins The Candidates Tournament'
• 2018-03-30: Berlin Candidates - Final Press Conference; (*)
• 2018-04-01: Berlin Candidates - Background; 'I like background. Here's a video with plenty of it.' (*)
• 2018-04-12: Carlsen's Next Challenger; 'explore Caruana's early career in a short series of posts' (first of a series)
• 2018-04-13: Interview Videos : Carlsen's Next Challenger; 'the day after his tournament win'
• 2018-04-19: Berlin Candidates - Chess Press Overview

Posts marked '(*)' include a video clip.

Berlin Candidates - Last Updates

I ended the previous post, Berlin Candidates - My Resources, with a number of small actions for a final update. To close these, I added the PGN file and tiebreak rules to my page on the 2018 Candidates Tournament. I also added links for that page to the four pages comprising the Index of Players.

Given that the tournament finished three weeks ago, you might think I was slow to make the updates. My excuse is that I had a vacation during that period. The official site for the 2018 Carlsen - Caruana title match to be held later this year is still wondering who the challenger will be.

london2018.worldchess.com
(Hint: It's the guy in the darkly shaded box.)

What's their excuse?

Berlin Candidates - My Resources

I added the crosstable and cumulative score to my page on the 2018 Candidates Tournament. The cumulative score is reproduced below.

Still to be done:-

• Add the PGN file
• Document the tiebreak rules
• Update the index of players
• Summarize the action from major chess news sources

I also updated the page for the 2018 Carlsen - Caruana match, to be held in London later this year.