World Championship - Carlsen v Karjakin

[Andy Howie]

Game 1 and Magnus plays the Trompowsky. Taken Karjakin completely out of prep. Is that the first time it has been played in a WC match?

[amuir]

Game 1 and Magnus plays the Trompowsky. Taken Karjakin completely out of prep. Is that the first time it has been played in a WC match?

"Trumpovsky" obviously

[Jonathan Livingstone]

Chess.Com said was the first time....

According to Chess.com's research, today was the very first time the Trompowsky has been played in a world championship match. That's a collection of almost 1,000 games. Challenger GM Sergey Karjakin said he was not surprised by the line; he'd had plenty of time to study the champion's past catalogue.
"It was not a revolution to me," Karjakin said afterward.
Twitter was more surprised, and broke out in various puns of jokes like: "The U.S. has been Trumped and Tromped in the span of four days."

Carlsen Tromped a few opponents in open tournaments in his junior days, but he also selected 2. Bg5 to beat GM Vladimir Kramnik at the 2013 Tal Memorial. The opening led off the bullet game that generated the famous "too weak, to slow" quip from Carlsen against his friend GM Laurent Fressinet.

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[Gerard Blake]

http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/draw...mpionship/