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Fabiano Luigi Caruana (born July 30, 1992) is an Italian and American chess grandmaster who is the reigning four-time United States Chess Champion. With a peak rating of 2844, Caruana is the third-highest-rated player in history .
On 13 November 2018, a two-minute video showing Caruana's preparation for the match showing a list of openings, possibly revealing some of Caruana's opening preparation, was uploaded onto the Saint Louis Chess Club's YouTube channel. The video was quickly removed, but screenshots from the video were disseminated on the Internet.
Fabiano Caruana: ½–½: A30 English Opening, Symmetrical Variation: Round 2 – 12 March 2016: Levon Aronian (½) Viswanathan Anand (1) ½–½: D37 Queen's Gambit Declined: Fabiano Caruana (½) Anish Giri (½) ½–½: B32 Ruy Lopez, Berlin Defence: Sergey Karjakin (½) Hikaru Nakamura (½) 1–0
The Petrov has been adopted by many of the world's leading players, including world champions Vasily Smyslov, Tigran Petrosian, Anatoly Karpov, and Vladimir Kramnik, along with grandmaster Fabiano Caruana and others. The Encyclopaedia of Chess Openings codes for Petrov's Defence are C43 (for 3.d4) and C42 (for all other lines). [2]
Fabiano Caruana says the World Chess Federation – and players like himself – need to do more to bring chess to the mainstream.
The opening is named after the 16th-century Spanish priest Ruy López de Segura, who made a systematic study of this and other openings in the 150-page book on chess Libro del Axedrez, written in 1561. [2] [3] Lopez advocated 3.Bb5 as superior to 3.Bc4, and was of the opinion that Black should play 2...d6 (the Philidor Defence) to avoid it.
During the sixth round of the 2014 Chess Olympiad at Tromsø, Magnus Carlsen chose the Scandinavian against Fabiano Caruana, and won; Carlsen used the opening again to draw with Caruana at the 2016 Chess Olympiad at Baku. [10] Carlsen used the opening as Black in a blitz game to defeat Viswanathan Anand at the 2019 Grand Chess Tour stop in ...
Fabiano Caruana scored the first win in the match after beating Andrei Volokitin on board one, while Leinier Domínguez and Ruslan Ponomariov drew on board three. [35] Wesley So had a better position as Black against Vasyl Ivanchuk on board two, but blundered on the 44th move to enable his opponent create a mating net (see diagram). [ 36 ]