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Chinese chess plus go board8/3/2023 ![]() The organization wanted a new template to pull the sport out of the chaos created by former world champion Garry Kasparov’s decision to break away and start a rival chess federation in 1993. In fact, when Carlsen was 19, he turned down an invitation to play in the Candidates, decrying the “shallow ceaseless match-after-match concept” and “puzzling ranking criteria” as “less than satisfactory.” By that time, in 2010, the International Chess Federation, also known as FIDE, had been tinkering with the format of the world championship cycle for many years. Nor does he think the format is particularly fair, for himself or for his challengers. ![]() The challenger is the winner of a qualification tournament called the Candidates.Ĭarlsen said he doesn’t enjoy spending a year or more preparing for a match against a single player. The world chess champion faces a challenger once every two years in a series of games over a period of weeks. When he says “match,” he is referring to chess’s match play format, which is admittedly unusual. I simply feel that I don’t have a lot to gain,” Carlsen said last year on an episode of his podcast, The Magnus Effect. Why, then, would he walk away from the title he spent much of his life pursuing and then defending? “The conclusion is-it’s very simple-that I’m not motivated to play another match. Magnus Carlsen of Norway competes against Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa of India in Round 12 of the Masters Tata Steel Chess Tournament 2023 on JanuPhoto by Dean Mouhtaropoulos/Getty Images ![]() Magnus Carlsen is without rival, living or otherwise. His peak Elo rating of 2882, achieved twice in 20, is the highest in chess history. He has won five world championship titles, four World Rapid Chess Championships, and six World Blitz Chess Championships. He achieved the rank of grandmaster at the age of 13 and at 19 was the youngest player to reach the no. The 32-year-old Norwegian currently holds chess’s top Elo rating, 2853, more than 50 points higher than either of the current competitors for the world championship. But whoever wins this year’s chess championship will be forced to reign in Carlsen’s incredibly long shadow.įor the last 10 years, Carlsen has stood head and shoulders above the world’s best chess players. When Fischer refused to defend his title and vanished from the public eye, Anatoly Karpov was awarded the championship and went on to dominate the world of chess for the next decade. What makes the situation even stranger is that while Fischer stopped playing competitive chess, Carlsen says he will continue participating in tournaments. Discounting the schism in the 1990s that created a separate chess federation and champion for a brief time, a world champion hasn’t voluntarily walked away since Bobby Fischer disappeared from competitive chess after winning the title in 1972. When asked before the start of the match who he thought would prevail, Carlsen replied, “I don’t care.” Instead, the match-a best of 14 games (plus tiebreaks, if needed)-is between Russian grandmaster Ian Nepomniachtchi, who faced Carlsen for the title in 2021 and is the second-ranked player in the world, and Chinese grandmaster Ding Liren, the world’s third-ranked player. ![]() He has chosen to abdicate his throne, surrendering the title he first won in 2013 without defending it for a fifth time. The World Chess Championship is currently happening in Kazakhstan, but the world chess champion, Magnus Carlsen, isn’t participating. ![]()
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