[varunprasad]

The 5 year thing is misleading though.

It would have been 4 years if not for COVID.

And what it basically means is that there were decisive games 4 years ago, and then 2 years later (the World Chess Championship is played every 2 years), in the 2018 match between Caruana and Magnus there were no decisive games.

So essentially there was 1 match with all draws during the standard chess part of the tournament. And that match was between Fabi who is regarded as one of the players with some of the greatest prep and play in standard chess, and Magnus, who is really one of the greatest players, if not the greatest, of all time.

[bjourne]

But there were only two decisive games in the match against Karjakin. So 22 of the last 24 classical world championship games were draws (27 out of 30 if we count the current match). Even Magnus himself has said that he thinks it is a little dull.

[matsemann]

Even if the game today ended up with a draw after move 60,it still would have been a banger of a game. The result doesn't matter, it's how they got there.